The November 8th meeting of KM Chicago will be on "Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System."
I'm looking at SharpReader again. Luke Hutteman released a new version (0.9.6.0) this summer, and I am using it again this week. Here are some thoughts about what works well and what doesn't.
George at elearnspace is "starting to view effective KM and information management processes as being primarily learning processes." Interesting thought.
Nancy White asked for clarification of my comments about shared context in some types of online communities.
Another do-this-instead-of-work meme for your pleasure. This time you ask Google what you need by doing a quoted search for "yourname needs".
Clarke Ching has found a great Theory of Constraints resource. And it has some guidance on The Haystack Syndrome.
If all goes well, this will be my 1000th post to Knowledge Jolt with Jack since I started in May 2003. Thanks to all my readers -- and thanks to all the people out there I read and who inspire me to think and participate.
Terrence Seamon has some interesting thoughts on faciliation skills. Facilitation is a big challenge of the TOC Application Expert training.
Knowledge management and organizational development can work together to grow an organization.
Accsys Corporation has created a KM Market Map. This provides one perspective on KM. There are many.
Kris Olson at Wiki That suggests that "What's Missing Is a 'Home' for Groups" in response to Clive Thompson's life hacking article. I suspect wiki's aren't quite enough, and I don't know where we will end up.
I'm moving some things around here at Knowledge Jolt with Jack. I'm slowly going through my archives and adding additional keywords and excerpts to old articles.
efios points to "Identifying Communities of Pracice" from the Shadbolt research group. They have created Ontocopi to parses an ontology to decipher the knowledge networks represented therein.
A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.
My blog appears to be worth $63,793.02 today. The Business Opportunities Weblog lets you do the calculation.
Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.
A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.