These are some of the words I heard at a Christmas tree stand in the upper east side of Manhattan last week.   The simple stand is a true symbol of knowledge sharing in this NY neighbourhood.   For eleven months of the year, people come and go on this urban block but rarely have time to stop and chat.   The stand appears Thanksgiving weekend and lasts until Christmas Eve.   During the month, thousands of locals stop in at the stand to talk about politics, the economy, religion and their lives.   They bring food, drink and other snacks as gifts to the sellers who live on the

Last night we held the evening as a conversation café where we had three rounds of conversation after a fifteen minute introduction by our speaker.   People rotated through tables with one person remaining at each table throughout to act as a host and share what the people in the earlier rounds had to say.   After thirty minutes everyone gathered together in a bigger conversation to ask other questions and share a bit about what their tables spoke about. Last night I learned about different home heating options such as biomass, fossil fuels and geoexhange (moving heat from the ground into buildings).   It was a great evening of learning from an expert as well as my neighbours.   It was part of a monthly series of discussion nights I organize called Green Drinks.

  It’s interesting to think about how knowledge networks develop.   My understanding is that people or organizations with a common interest come together over a shared purpose.   If the sole purpose of the network is to share knowledge, there needs to be a demand and supply of knowledge.    Participants need to be interested in each other’s experiences and lessons to offer.    To be really valuable, the knowledge needs to be real, personable and something others can identify with.  Anyone I am helping to establish a regional network of learning around a shared topic

Thanks to all who shared their time with us.  Once I have recently returned from two weeks vacation.  What What can I say?   Two French friends and former colleagues from Switzerland came across the land and sea to visit the small corner of BC I call home.  We We travelled across varied landscapes, enjoyed friends and new people, ate, drank

Today a resource was shared that I am marveling at.  It I belong to a network of KM practioners working in development.  Today It helps us see traditional words and documents differently.  I I have tested it out with a document describing a learning network established in a community climate change adaptation initiative.  I

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We concluded that what councils need in order to share so-called “best practice” is not more consultancy, reports and databases, but video clips, conversations, and encouragement to tell bad stories as well a good. The event was organised by Steve Dale , who works with IDeA on improving how our councils operate - in his case by developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing, with Michael Norton, as I reported here . Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. Boring waste of time?

Its potential is described in just 3 words on the website : keep, share and discover. Information on the internet can be collected, shared and discovered online with this social bookmarking tool. is online, so you need an internet connection, and it is free of charge. The next interview took place at June 7, 2006 with Joitske Hulsebosch from IICD. Knowledge sharing and finding people “I’ve used del.icio.us The tool: del.icio.us Del.icio.us is an online tool.

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wanted to share some of them, and find out what you use and how. Patrick Lambe and the folks at Straitsknowledge created a deck of cards to introduce people to knowledge management and knowledge sharing methods. Tags: creativity facilitation knowledge sharing visual thinkin I love things you can touch and play with when facilitating face to face. This is probably why I was so attracted to the “drawing on walls” involved in graphic facilitation , kinesthetic modeling and just plain PLAY as a way to work together.