Shawn Callahan has discovered "A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge" via a pamphlet from Demos on "The Received Wisdom: Opening up expert advice."
I love the concept of charitable reading posted by Meredith Farkas. Assume the best in what you read online, not the worst.
Christopher Koch at CIO (Magazine) Blogs has a very strong opinion about the claim that web 2.0 automatically creates "community."
I am talking about Theory of Constraints Monday (22 January) evening through my association with Northwestern's Center for Learning and Organizational Change . This will be an introduction to the concept.
In a recent SIKM Leaders discussion, Bruce Karney of KM Experts talked about the idea of the killer app. I wonder what is the KM killer app?
Really. KM is only "hard" if the change from what is happening yesterday to what should be happening tomorrow is significant to the people expected to make the change.
The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.
Lucas McDonnell provides three tips (plus a bonus) to help with knowledge management. And he counters my recent piece on KM being "hard."
Chuck Frey has posted an Exclusive interview with Tony Buzan, which reveals more about mind mapping than I knew.
Jonathan Spira at Collaboration Loop provides a collective take on The Knowledge Worker's New Year's Resolutions.
Josh Nankivel has started blogging and picked up on the perennially-favorite topic of multi-tasking. He talks about the theory of constraints connection, and he also makes connection to Covey's 4 quadrants.
Teleos has released three more of their MAKE awards for 2006: Europe, Asia and India.
What are the common notions about "lost knowledge?" It turns out the common notions aren't always correct, according to a study from Lori Rosenkopf at Wharton.
A friend pointed me to an item from the Accenture press releases about a survey they've done, "Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless." Does this suggest a portal or something else?
My wife contributed a segment to "A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science" to be published on 30 April 2007. Yipee!
I've updated some of the background aspects of this blog to include the well-formed web's CommentAPI. And, since I couldn't find clear instructions, I provide them to you at no charge.
David Gurteen posted a draft list of attributes of an effective knowledge worker. There are some interesting thoughts here, as well as comments from Jim McGee and others that round out the idea.
Shannon's Random Mutterings falls to the topic of knowledge management in "Why Is Knowledge Management So Hard?" For Shannon, KM is about doing well as an individual. I would add that there is an important component that related to how the group of us work together
What would you recommend for tips on dealing with the flood of digital information? That's the question from Michael Sampson in his "Seven Things" article. He provides six, and I try at a seventh.
Liz Lawley points us to this moving story of a soldier who has left his son a journal / guidebook.