They use the metaphor of an iceberg where the tip (above water) represents data and information, the iceberg below water represents knowledge in people’s head and the water the iceberg is floating in represents the organizational culture. I recently came across one of the best explanations of ‘ How to talk about Knowledge Management ‘ on Anecdote.com. The author’s explanation resonated strongly with my own ideas and I would like to share these with you.

I will be keeping my eyes open for more KM tips along the way ...Tags: It’s a week after the US elections and I am still impressed by the speech given by Obama on November 5th as well as the campaign that surpassed anyone’s imagination.  Obama Obama is no doubt brilliant but what I find so interesting is his use of many tools and tactics we work with in the field of Knowledge Management.

(image via Communigations ) Riny Heijdendaal, Harry van Oosterveen, Dorine Ruter and Simon Koolwijk have shared some skype tips, so together it makes for a list of 10 Skype tips for the Advanced skype user. Here we go: Tip 1: You can add echo123 as a contact person to test your headset and microphone settings. When you dial echo 123 you will be invited to speak and the recording will be played back to you so that you will hear your own voice as a a person to whom you are talking on skype would hear you. Tip 2: Skype has a lot of short commands which make

A few tips for ning administrators: 1. This is something I first saw in the ning about Worldwide story work but now I don't see it there? Do you have more tips to customize a ning site to your needs? ...Tags: I've been exploring Ning a little further than I did and compared it to other forums like socialgo, collectivex and grou.ps . Gro.ups is open source, has a lot of similar functionalities to ning (and more- you can upload files easily) and is also without advertisements (for free!).

I'll add that advice to my repertoire of tips for getting people to tell their stories on video. A few nights ago I watch Changeling starring Angelina Jolie. It's directed by Clint Eastwood (has he ever directed a dud movie?) and I was fascinated by a short documentary we found in the DVD extras where Clint explained why he never calls out 'Action' when directing a scene.

Tags: Orientations Resources Tips and Practices spidergra It is so lovely having a fabulous network – including people I just barely know, but who then hook in with a moment of insight, a remix or ready to augment a forming idea or practice. Gabriele Sani from World Vision in Italy has recently done this with the Community Orientations Spidergram from our Digital Habitats book.

Tags: Communities of Practice Tips and Practice Crossposted from my Full Circle Blog I was cruising through my blog reader, hopelessly “behind” in reading (my own construction - I know I can “mark all read!”) 8221;) and came upon a post from Vic Desotelle who pointed to a TED talk on Compassion which somehow lead me to a Garr Reynolds post about a TED Talk by Evan Williams of Twitter. (Talk about the network!)