Mathemagenic

If you think about yourself as a node in knowledge-sharing network, what is important (having in mind both: your own interests and being a part of the network)?

• Knowing your expertise
• Knowing others (people, communities), knowing what their expertise and how to contact them
• Being able to find information (to do things) or learning resources (to grow)
• Having opportunities to reflect on your own experiences, to review "pieces of the past" and to construct new ideas
• Being able to search, to contact, to share, to learn, to create effectively

Brainstorming and struggling...

Jack Vinson (bold is mine):

As part of his discussion on expert databases last week, John Chu shared a report on the topic from Outsell, Trend Alert: Connecting People to People - Expert Databases (abstract only). Outsell surveyed a number of companies with expert databases and said some things about knowledge management and setting up expert databases. It was the conclusion that was most telling:

In our opinion, the pain won't be worth the gain if collaborative work practices aren't already inherent within the organization.

Would be nice to see the report, but $895.00 is a bit too much. Still, the main thing is simple: technology is not likely to change the way people work.

After minute thinking I'm not so sure :) Will be back on it when time allows...