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Few posts/links to think about:
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Blogs to support community
John Robb's Radio Weblog continues pointing to old posts in Yahoo! Groups: klogs: this time it is K-Log community services. Includes a collection of ideas of using K-logs as a community tool in corporate settings. More on: blogs in business
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Making mistakes in public
Stand Up Eight in Learning with Confidence: An unwillingness to make public mistakes often arises from a learner's ideas about intelligence. If intelligence is believed to be a fixed asset, risk-taking holds little value ("I either get it or I don't. If I don't, I probably never will, so why risk looking like a fool?"). Conversely, if the learner believes that intelligence is a dynamic attribute that can be affected by effort, the risk of public stumbles are not as likely to hold them back from trying. This all speaks to the need to incorporate mechanisms into learning environments that will assist the learner and the teacher in discovering these preconceptions and in working to modify/correct them if necessary. More on: e-learning
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Releasing PhD ideas to the wild
As I promised I added my PhD ideas. I want to look for the connections between KM and formal training, or as I put it - between informal and formal learning. This is a short-term solution as I want to write something more readable that includes recent thinking. And I would love to have link to comments with it (so far I didn't found how it could be done). I'm scared to put it on-line: so far not so many people have commented on it. But I'm lost, I'm trying to find the right focus for my research and I need more input to make up my mind. I've already found blogging helpful, so may be this will take me further. May be not. I hope that KM Summer School will help me as well. I'm at the stage when I have to discuss my ideas to get them clear. More on: KM KM&learning learning informal PhD
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Random quotes of Don Norman talking about learning
Exploring recent elearningpost links: 'Besides avoiding travel, the only reason to use technology is to enhance learning' says Don Norman.I fully agree. He also speaks about accretion, tuning and restructuring components of learning - I've heard about this theory, but didn't have time to go for more details. I guess I should do it now: I would like to look for connections between restructuring and knowledge creation. I think that there are some. In another interview Don distinguishes between activity-driven and content-driven learnining. Interesting... As a trainer I used to think about learning design in terms of activities first (of course, after objectives :), and only then about content to support them. Now I'm examining my own (informal) learning: in many cases it's content-driven (e.g. reading mailists). Something to think about. Something else, on edutainment: The problem is this: We do not want the gaming industry to go into instruction. The gaming industry knows nothing about pedagogy and learner-centered design. But what we want to do is to capture the excitement and concentration of those into playing games. We want to that in the same way when we are learning. But we haven't made much progress in this regard. And about on-line and classroom instructor: First I think the classroom instructor is better than the online instructor. The major role of an instructor is to give guidance and encouragement; to be a mentor and guide. These are as much social issues as they are instructional. And being physically in the same place really helps. More on: e-learning learning informal
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Use of RSS in corporate settings
Knowledge Streams (Yahoo! Groups: klogs via John Robb's Radio Weblog) provides a good desription of using RSS subscriptions in a corporate settings (more than blogging). Something to come back later. More on: blogs in business RSS
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Thursday, August 29, 2002|
Before it will get too long :)
Don't know why I was waiting for the whole day to do it: I'm subscribed to almost all the blogs and could see it growing.
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Blogs to improve writing
Klogs can improve the value of what you write as a follow-up for this post But there are other options, for example a Radio weblog with liveTopics adds another dimension for relating posts together to create a train of thought. You can follow a topic from a post into a table of contents where you can see other posts referencing that topic. You can also see, for each post, other topics that were associated with it allowing you to hop from one subject of conversation to another. I saw liveTopics and I'm curious to try... After coming back from KMSS. |
Audio blogging
Here's a scenario: Something to do with yesterday's ideas of voice recognition as an input (e.g. for a blog). More on: blogs
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Business blogs: consulting
This is something I posted last November on K-Logs: "Consultants and K-Logs" He suggests two ideas of blogs in consulting:
More on: blogs in business
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Pull vs. push strategies for sharing knowledge
Yesterday I shared my blogging experience with a colleague. She asked why people would blog ideas rather than share them in a community. When I realised a couple of things:
Recently someone wrote about it, but my own feeling came only yesterday. More on: blog writing knowledge sharing
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Quote
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. Mae West More on: quote
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Teaching and knowledge sharing (3): coaching and knowledge sharing
I came from a presentation of friend's Master project with an idea: coaching is much better term then teaching for teaching vs. knowledge sharing discussion. She also had some interesting ideas about skills for knowledge sharing. I hope to read her thesis and write a summary. More on: KM&learning
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002|
Confidentiality vs. sharing
Digging Ideas Out of People's Heads via McGee's Musings I worry sometimes about the public expression of information that should be kept confidential, but I worry more about the exponentially worse problem of keeping confidential that which should be publicly expressed. I can think of ways to solve the first problem, but I can't dig ideas out of people's heads. They must be expressed to be used. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] See also Interorganisational communities and knowledge leaking More on: knowledge sharing transparency
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Blog to catch ideas
I find that creating knowledge is hard work. And, I've found that keeping a weblog is one absolutely essential tool for helping me catch ideas before they slip away and then working to develop them into something useful. More on: personal knowledge management
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Making people smarter isn't the point
Making people smarter isn't the point (commenting You cannot make people smarter): The question of whether you can make people smarter or not isn't the point. That suggests that only smart people can benefit from knowledge management or other initiatives? No, that suggests that at the end people learn by themselves :))) It's Alan Kay's old point - point of view is worth IQ points (the actual number being in dispute as is the relevance of raw intelligence to the discussion). Maybe it's a philosophical point. For me, if you're still alive, you're learning. If you're learning, you're at least potentially getting smarter in some practical sense. More on: learning facilitation
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Blogging by sale reps
Curiouser and curiouser! describes klogging by sale reps. We are discussing problems with establishing communities between sales/marketing peopls. I wonder if klogging could be an alternative? In any case I expect motivation to be the main problem... More on: blogs in business
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Blog changing way we meet people
I really didn't expect weblogs to change the way I met with people. This was a surprise. You already know them. Similar as googling changes dating :))) More on: blog networking
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Supporting informal learning
The discussion continues here
Something to add to my question about "can we support informal learning". Supporting often means formalizing...[Mathemagenic] For me, supporting informal learning largely means making it easier for people to find and pull whatever knowledge they need at a given time. It means giving them the freedom to select the ways that suit them. It means providing a varied array of powerful tools, but not forcing any particular one on them. Putting a learner in a wagon on a predefined track is not the way to go. Sadly that's what they still do in schools everywhere. That's the price to be paid for maintaining (a semblance of) order. [Seb's Open Research] A piece from my (not finished) report:
I would love to hear more ideas, examples or thoughts about informal learning. More on: KM&learning learning informal
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Project blogging
John Udell about on the writeable web, the uses of storytelling, and project weblogging (via Radio Free Blogistan and KMpings): Nice "sanitized picture" of the projects weblog with a commentary
More on: blogs in business
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Blog capture ideas, but it's still difficult to find them
Curiouser and curiouser! in There's a hole in my bucket....
As a klogger, over the past 3 months or so, I have recorded & published tens if not hundreds of thoughts. I doubt if I shared one quarter of output during the last 6 years I worked at various companies. Oh I would probably have emailed here and there, spoken up during meetings. But I wonder just how much knowledge is being lost, second by second, in most companies by each employee. Then multiply up... But even if they would catch those thoughts, it's going to be very difficult to find something relevant and to understand it our of the context. More or less like forum discussion: you have to follow for some time to make sense of it. Going through blog archives is not easy... So far I benefit more from the distributed dialog and from the collective filtering. So, blogs is more for sharing, rather than capturing... More on: personal knowledge management
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Corporate guidelines for personal weblogs
Stephen Downes comments on corporate guidelines for personal weblogs
...That said, these guidelines are good, common sense guidelines for weblogs. Of course I'm not going to spill confidential info on this weblog (conversely, I am very careful about what I allow to be classified as confidential). And of course I am respectful to my employers - not because of any guideline, though, but because they deserve it. But these are rules that ought to apply everywhere, including, for example, the corner pub - and you don't see guidelines for pub behaviour "guidelines for pub behaviour" sounds nice :))) More on: blogs in business
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Hyperlinks are the currency of the internet
Weblogs and the people that write with them, copy each other's words frequently, sometimes even automatically, and have an informal crediting system of mentioning sources. RSS even carries 'source' information. More on: blog ecosystem emergence
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Monday, August 26, 2002|
Blended Learning Models
Blended Learning Models by Purnima Valiathan - includes ideas and lessons plans for blended learning in three different flavours (bold is mine):
More on: e-learning learning
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Budget KM
The 99 cent KM solution (via elearningpost): David Weinberger advocates simple KM solutions: mailing lists, personal pages, blogs, and suggests ideas for using them. A couple of pieces I like: ...I am not opposed to big, expensive, all-embracing KM solutions. I'm just suspicious of them. There is a difference. And I get more suspicious of them as they promise to automate more. On the other hand, the ones that offer to put me in touch with more people bring a rosy glow of happiness to my face... ...By the way, not only allow but encourage the creation of "off topic" mailing lists. The world is so connected that nothing is off topic any more... ...Then there are the non-digital ways of encouraging the creation and sharing of knowledge. Leaving office doors open. Weekly pizza parties. Brown bag lunchtime lectures by employees on what they care about. A free library with monthly book club meetings. Learning to listen. Shutting up once in a while... More on: KM
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Blogging for Dollars
Blogging for Dollars (via elearningpost) discusses corporate blogging, gives an example of marketing team blogging, and points to two business blogging products. More on: blogs in business
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InFORMing
I came to Doc Searls weblog via John Robb and then I found this piece:
A few weeks ago, when I was talking with Tim O'Reilly about the patent mess, we deconstructed the noun information. Clearly it derives from the verb inform, which derives from the verb form. Something to do with yesterday's discussion about forming vs. training/developing. Calls other discussions as well. More on: KM
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Sunday, August 25, 2002|
Weblog citations
Stand Up Eight about confusion with weblog citations. I have the same problem, and I'm inventing some quidelines for myself:
But in some more difficult cases I'm not sure what to do: all the participants have different styles of citing and it gets totally difficult for the reader to recognise the original discussion. I would be happy with some kind of general tags that describe each element of a citation:
Than each author can specify more specific style for a citation in blog templated. In this case if I would cite citings of others they would be formatted with the same style as I use. This is a bit complicated solution, probably it's easier just to have agreed guidelines and to use them :) See also a follow-up post Recurse, Reuse, and Problems with Proper Attribution by gRadio More on: blog writing
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Knowledge is a noun, learning is a verb
Knowledge is a noun, learning is a verb (via SynapShots). This article by Ian Herbert distingushes between different concepts:
I love the title, I will definetely read it properly, but I'm already missing individual learning. At the end there are people who learn, and for me (given my background in adult learning theories) this is something that I would call learning. More on: KM KM&learning
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Personal Website and Weblog Guidelines
Personal Website and Weblog Guidelines (via Gurteen Knowledge-Log): Ray Ozzie provides an example of corporate policies regarding personal publishing. I already though that I should talk to someone in my company to make sure that they don't mind me blogging.
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Documenting mistakes publicly
Documenting mistakes publicly [Seb's Open Research]
Looking at the print literature would have you believe that everyone succeeds everything on the first attempt. "Here's what we wanted to do, here's what we tried, and look, it worked." False starts and blind alleys are almost never documented. But they're there. Lots of them. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? More on: knowledge sharing
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Barriers for common language
Sébastien Paquet in Building bridges between knowledge transmission efforts comments on e-learning, KM, HRD - where am I belonging? Trying to identify different flavours (knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, communities of practice, e-learning, information architecture, library science...) only obscures the simple fact that we're all trying to solve that difficult core problem of finding effective ways to transmit knowledge from mind to mind - in other words, communication between people. Let us take down the language barriers that prevent us from combining our forces; let's work as one large, powerful group. I'm sure we can pull it off. Agree that we talk about same processes from different perspective, but I guess that there is more than language barriers: different theories and models, different networks of people, different conferences and journals... Finally, when it comes to the organisational level, there are different departments responsible and a variaty of unrelated technology tools (we did a small study on KM/e-learning connections in companies, I'm waiting for the results to go public to post it here). It's not going to be easy, but I believe in common language, and I'm looking for practical steps to build bridges... More on: KM KM&learning
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Links
Recent k-log links:
More on: blogging conversations blogs in business
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Saturday, August 24, 2002|
I'm not a potato :)
Living in the Blog-osphere (via Stephen Downes) Motives include a blogger’s need for attention, a mania to share information and, above all, a desire to be a participant and not a potato. More on: blog writing motivation
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Learning communities
Stephen Downes comments on the same article about learning communities
...The article correctly identifies the need for online learning communities as a means of capturing the informal or tacit knowledge that circulates within an organization or group. But then, like most accounts of online learning communities, it describes a fairly structured or formal approach to their creation, so much so that the resulting product would resemble a classroom much more than a community... ...I think there are two major things to remember, things that dictate a very different approach than is recommended here. First, informal learning is informal, so don't try to structure it with roles and behaviours. Second, informal learning is not separate, but rather, integrated into day-to-day activities. The learning is a part of and a natural outgrowth of other activities. Putting it into a nice formalized box somewhere separate from everything else simply ruins it... Something to add to my question about "can we support informal learning". Supporting often means formallising... More on: action research communities e-learning KM&learning
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Friday, August 23, 2002|
Lessons learned from a large-scale K-logging implementation
Sebastien Paquet in "A K-log is..." and lessons learned from a large-scale K-logging implementation: Funny how so many people (myself included) have been talking about K-logs in the absence of an explicit definition. Yesterday, in my referers, I found a google search on the phrase "A K-log is". Follow the link and see how pitiful the results are. But the last result, on the second page, is actually the best one, and helped me find a very interesting (but sadly, abandoned) weblog. More on: blog research blogs in business
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Asking questions
Came via SynapShots: Learning How to Ask Powerful, Probing Questions
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e-learning, KM, HRD - where am I belonging?
Came via elearningpost - Building Communities--Strategies for Collaborative Learning First thought: nice, finally Learning Circuits write something about communities. Second thought: it is only about learning communities, not communities of practice. Do they know about all KM experiences in this area? Are they starting from scratch? Third thought: I identified myself with KM camp. Half a year back I was in e-learning camp. I’m definitely looking for some bridges. Last thought: And there is HRD (human resources development) camp as well. I want bridges... Follow-up thought: I promise to add two things to my blog - my bio with interests and my PhD ideas. Within one month. More on: e-learning KM KM&learning
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Differences between teaching and knowledge sharing (2)
Follow-up for You cannot make people smarter: Not every organisation believes that, e.g. the amount of money spent each year on training that doesn't work. I was curious to browse links a bit. Nanette Miner says about three reasons: I guess, there are more reasons, but I'd like to focus on one of them: why subject matter experts are not good in creating training (formatting is mine). The misguided logic of the Paulette Principle is this: If you are good at what you do, you must be able to teach others to do it. Training designed by subject matter experts spells disaster in one of two ways: It illustrates my idea about differences between teaching and knowledge sharing. Even if someone wants to share knowledge, it's not necessary that he can help others to learn. More on: knowledge sharing learning facilitation
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More on connections between learning and teaching
To teach is to learn by Curiouser and curiouser!
What an excellent question: "What connections exist between learning and teaching?" I love this example :) More on: learning facilitation learning informal
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Klogs as a reporting tool
Lunch break: switching from work to reflection... Curiouser and curiouser! in You cannot make people smarter: Thanks to [DG] for putting me on to Mathemagenic. Probably, those who don't believe in smart people, don't believe in KM as well... Or, believe that good IT infrastructure will solve KM problems. My fear is that klogging will only thrive in organisations that are healthy, and that there may not be enough of them. Or, worse, that klogging will thrive as a control mechanism imposed by insecure and fearful management. I don't want to be a part of that. I don't think that klogging could be imposed: in "no trust culture" even if someone asks me what I'm thinking about, I can always say something else. If imposed, klogs can only capture formal activities, that in many cases go to all kinds of reports in any case. Klogs can turn in a new kind of reporting tool. This could be not so bad if it replaces all other reports. If we think about klogs as project management tool, why not to extent it to the reporting tool? Finally, I would put it broader: I don't want to be a part of unhealthy (in cultural sense) organisation. I simply wouldn't be able to realise my ambitions in this case. More on: blogs in business KM
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Differences between teaching and knowledge sharing
I wonder about the differences between teaching and knowledge sharing (corporate context). My rough version:
The second one requires a bit more skills, but I think that ideally “knowledge sharing=teaching”: I’m open for others, I spot their needs and I make sure that they can learn from my experience.
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Learning and knowledge sharing (2)
Seb's Open Research: on Learning, sharing, and doing both:
I believe that all sharers are learners. However from my experience there are perhaps five to ten times more people who can learn but won't teach than there are people who'll do both. The implication would be that you can only klog 10-20% of an organization. But watch the generation of kids who are going to grow up with the medium. And Matt Mower follow-up in Can teach. Won't teach. I'd be interested in any conjecture about the, possibly many, reasons why those people won't teach? Teaching is a tricky term: it has too much to do with school and formal settings. I would look for something short with meaning intentional facilitation of learning instead of teaching. But so far I continue to use teaching… So, why people don't teach? I guess the main reason is the they can't imagine themselves as school teachers. Ok, why people don't share? Some answers could be found in reasons for not sharing and BRINT discussion about knowledge sharing incentives. I would summarise it simply: people don't see the fun and the value of sharing (for a variaty of reasons), or don't have right skills and right environment to support knowledge sharing. But I still have a feeling that the answers are not here yet... I hope we will get the topic of motivation for knowledge sharing in our research agenda. More on: knowledge sharing learning
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Thursday, August 22, 2002|
Learning and knowledge sharing: two sides of the same coin?
Follow-up thinking from previous post. Sometimes I catch myself wishing to do some kind of teaching (training, coaching). Although I’m in research now, previous few years of helping others to learn has impacted me badly. I miss it, and I use any opportunity to do it even as an extra workload. I was curious about a driving force behind it. I thought about this energy and excitement I get when people are growing with my help, but this was not explaining the whole. Now it gets clear: this is my own way to learn. It also explains why I’m not so eager to give the same course more than three times: probably this is enough to understand. I wonder what connections exist between learning and teaching, or, in KM context, between learning and sharing. Are those who dare to share and eager to learn are the same people? Are these two sides of the same coin? May be it’s a coincidence in my case :-) More on: learning learning facilitation motivation
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Why asking commitment to teach someone works well?
From David Gurteen comments to Uncovering the implicit (a bit late to notice :-) One of the things that Stephen Covey does before a workshop is to get the members of the audience to commit to teaching within the next week or so - the material they are about to learn - as this changes their mindset when they are learning becuase they know they need to understand it well if they are to teach it and they will furthr consolidate that learning wehn they come to teach it ... there is probably a good reference or quote from Stephen somewhere - I will look out for one ... First, as David says it helps to get more serious attitude towards learning. Next, it helps with learning transfer and application, as teaching someone else
So powerful! Definitely something to use in my practice. More on: learning facilitation
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Synchronicity
Seb's Open Research in Matt Mower: klogging = Tacit Knowledge Publishing: ... Then it occurred to me to cut to the chase: For me have always been the criteria to find people "on the same wave". Being teenager I was impressed that once you find someone you happy to talk with, you will find similar interests as well: believes, books, music, places... The best thing is that the circle of interests is never the same, and you can find new things that kind of "preselected" according to your own interests. This is like defining a set of interesting books by "Amazon"'s "customers who bought this book also bought"… ...like reading blogs of people “on the same wave”... More on: synchronicity
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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe - going virtual?
Gurteen Knowledge Cafe. Well the invite has just gone out to the first meeting of my [Knowledge Cafe]. It doesn't take much to travel to London, but I need a visa :))) There is another KM club in Moscow, I don't need a visa, but it's too far. Probably, there is a KM club in the Netherlands, but my Dutch is far from being good. Those face-to-face meetings are so powerful... I wonder if virtual cafe would work? Otherwise I have to find other ways for networking. By blogging? More on: learning event
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KM Summer School, conference blogging and vacation
I'm going to KM Summer School in a couple of weeks. I like the way they prepare the event: apart from taking care of all the formalities, the discussion is started at Knowledge Board for exchanging improductions and expectations. From my expectations:
I'm going to continue blogging from France, at least as far as my "mail-to-weblog" will work. I'm not sure that I can keep my PC working all this time. I wish Radio would have an opportunity for server-based blogging - at least for a few days of conference. If we talk about klogs for knowlegde sharing, what could be better than instant posting of conference notes? Next to it I hope to find some time to get a bit of tend: I'm living in RainyLand and I didn't manage to have vacation this summer. I'm going to catch up with taking a week off after the conference. Nice combination to get back to work: new ideas and new contacts from KMSS combined with sun, sea and new impressions... Counting days... More on: KMSS
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002|
Themes
I did quite a lot today to have nicer blog. To become happy now I need a very small thing: to get working this theme and yellow background. Discussing this issue at Radio forum More on: Radio
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My blog - to do list
Via Roland Tanglao: KLogs and Matt Mower - Scotts Radio Some nice tips about dealing with Radio. But, frankly, I need more.
This thing were in the list, but I fixed them today
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002|
Taxonomies to digest knowledge in klogs
Via Seb's Open Research: discussion about Klogging roles turns into discussion about The natural progression for knowledge: from K-logs to well structured forms. Blogs is definetely worse than simple disscussion board to give proper credits to all who participated. I would just cite some ideas:
I treat blog as my external brain more than a publishing tool (at least so far). Could you imagine someone trying to digest knowledge stored in several brains to get something meaningful out of it? Could be funny :))) From another side, there is at least one editor who might want to digest posts in blog - it's me. At first, blog helps me to capture ideas by articulating them, but then I want to look for patterns and connections that emerge. This would be something to do for the smart tools. Date, time and categories are definitely not enough for me. I want something like this: However, it is possible, once a K-Logging culture is in place to utilize taxonomy tools (tools like Wikis and Traction Software) to organize K-Log generated information into a larger whole. The key to success is to first lay the groundwork with a K-Log network and then leverage it after it begins to produce results. K-Logging puts the knowledge into a format that makes it easier to manipulate by a taxonomy tool. Longer term, I think most organizations will use combinations of the two types of tools to turn the Intranet into a rich, vibrant, and growing knowledge repository. (John Robb on K-Logs and Taxonomies in Yahoo! Groups: klogs) More on: personal knowledge management
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Monday, August 19, 2002|
Formal/informal interplay
Matt Mower raises some unresolved Klogging issues:
I love this issue popping up again and again: how control and formal structures can coexist with natural informal networks. I'm not sure that I want to tackle the whole issue, but at least I want to look at the learning side of it.
More on: KM&learning learning informal middlespace
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Uncovering the implicit
Professions in the blogosphere: is there a pattern? from Seb's Open Research:
Great! I would add KM people who are trying to uncover and understand grassroots knowledge flows and then enhance them to add business value. I also thought about usability professionals (for me Alertbox was a starting point to think about something like blog), although I'm not aware if there are a lot of blogs by them. For me, blog is something for articulating ideas. They get some shape once they get out of my brain, and it becomes easier to deal with them. Blog is something for catching those difficult to catch things... I'm thinking why such articulation is so powerful? I guess this is something to do with another thing: teaching someone else is the most effective learning method (don't have the reference). Explaining things is the best way to understand them... More on: blog research bloggers
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Quotes
From Quotes of the Day:
I wonder how much this selection of quotes can say about me... More on: quote
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Friday, August 16, 2002
Klogging roles
Klogging roles via Matt Mower
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Link
Via Gurteen Knowledge-Log:
I checked the original: it dicusses Macromedia blogging. I was hoping for more examples :) More on: blogs in business
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Thursday, August 15, 2002|
Where would I start learning?
One more issue from TechLearn TRENDS
I wrote to Elliott about my ideas. Here it is (+links and a bit of editing)
More on: e-learning
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002|
Reusing blog
Although I didn't write for a couple of days, I used my klog extensively to access older posts. Have to find time for template editing to insert search function: it's ready, but I wasn't able to find a place for it.
More on: personal knowledge management
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Monday, August 12, 2002|
Innovation in R&D
Something to check later: a collection of papers about innovation in R&D context from Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies
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Sunday, August 11, 2002|
Time to reflect: my uses of weblog
I'm klogging for around 1,5 months, so it would be nice to reflect a bit about my uses of blog. So, I use it
So far this is not a tool to discuss my ideas with others - I'm not too active in blog-networking, I want to have a good content to share first and better usability. I wonder when it will come. I have an unexpected effect as well - old friend was able to find me easily by googling (nice word he used :) I'm not so happy with it as I could be - I want more flexibility in terms of customisation of my blog, and I don't have time to go into Radio technical issues. |
Friday, August 09, 2002
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
From Quotes of the Day:
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Links
Something for the future projects* from Curiouser and curiouser!
* Funny, I write as I'm sure that I will do something with it More on: blogs in business
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Thursday, August 08, 2002|
ID for learner-oriented training
From August issue of Play for performance (bold is mine): Why am I against training people in a structured, organized fashion? Here are my reasons: I love this piece. I wonder how Thiagi's approach can take place of all kind of ID books that teach something that you never use in practice... More on: learning facilitation
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Links
Trying to refer to the recent Stephen Downes post: I'm not able to find permanent link to this week, and I don't want to refer to the specific posts.
So, just to remember: there are few nice links to standards and reuse of e-learning articles. Other links from there:
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Customer e-learning
Came via TechLearn TRENDS #239: (bold is mine) 1. Customer Learning Growth: I just returned from a Customer Learning Seminar in Chicago at a CRM conference. It is amazing to watch the rate at which e-Learning is being deployed in the Customer Learning arena. We are seeing three major trends in Customer Learning implementations in the past ten months: This is something to think about in our KM project. Something else - was so pity to miss TechLearn last year (everything had been arranged, but my passport got stolen). Now our budgets are cut and this is not my primary focus any more, so the probability of going is low... And I have their invitation card on my table. More on: e-learning KM&learning
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Wednesday, August 07, 2002|
Accessible weblog
Came via w3future.com to days 30 days to a more accessible weblog This is something to read and to think about. The only problem is that my knowledge about usability is better than my knowledge of HTML, XML and the rest of things I need to make it more usable or accessible. More on: Radio
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LMS and knowledge mapping
A well managed and organized LMS (learning management system) database of Learning Events (formal training, on-the-job traianing, single point lessons, mentoring, etc) that each employee has participated in can tell where the knowledge of a workforce "should" reside. Good data mining can then reveal where pockets of certain types of knowledge should reside. These pockets can then be tapped for special projects and assignments. This in conjunction with the proposals put forth in this article could be very powerful. More on: e-learning knowledge mapping
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Reasons for not sharing knowledge
Something from left to read
1. People believe that knowledge is power So, (1) change the reward system and (2) use other motivators than money. 2. People are insecure about the value of their knowledge People need to trust each other to share, and building this "social capital" takes time 4. Employees are afraid of negative consequences When challenging and stupid ideas are not criticises... 5. People work for other people who don't tell what they know In addition, there are more ideas from readers' comments
More on: knowledge sharing motivation
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Student evaluation
We had a heated discussion about student assessment yesterday after dinner. A few points:
Hmmm, my evaluation of students is so biased… More on: learning facilitation
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Blogs in reseach
Came via Yahoo! Groups: klogs - The Case for using K-logs in Research It gives ten reasons why klogging fits academic culture and six reasons to resist it. As I could expect it also links to article Blogging thoughts: personal publication as a research tool, the one that encouraged me to start my own log. There are a few links to follow and read:
In any case I should find some time to read more about wiki More on: blog research networking
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Reading priorities
Was cleaning my table: I have enormous amount of print outs to read. Trying to set up some priorities. Would be something like:
More on: reading
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Tuesday, August 06, 2002|
Sharing knowledge
Something from recent Gurteen knowledge letter: Knowing how much Bob Buckman is interested in 'knowledge sharing' - I recently sent him this quote from Peter Senge: More on: KM&learning knowledge sharing
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Monday, August 05, 2002|
KM and HRM
Finally I was reading KM and Human Resources Management article and changing old post about it to add a review. I found out things that I didn't like - there were no proper references!
I'm becoming a scientist :) More on: KM&learning
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KM in small R&D company
Something to come back later: discussion at BRINT about starting KM in small R&D company
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Thursday, August 01, 2002
Found in internet
From white paper collection Free online sessions about a variety of e-learning topics More on: e-learning
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Our findings about relating KM to HR/learning efforts
E-linCC study
CKO study
Communities study
I'm definetely going to write about it.
Later: I did it! See Converging knowledge management, training and e-learning: scenarios to make it work More on: KM&learning
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This weblog is my learning diary. Sometimes I write about things related to my work, but the views expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Last update: 3/25/2007; 10:27:44 AM.
