Mathemagenic

Back from KM Europe... Some highlights:

• VIP pass from Knowledge Board team so I could go to all keynotes
• Bean bags in a coffee area that worked well as a metaphor a couple of times: talking about technology that shapes around you and thinking about shaping workplaces to make you happy.
• Getting a group of people for lunch, promising to show them "a place with a better food" and discovering that all "better food" places in a congress centre were closed.
• Free WiFi area given that commercial rates are pretty high (Martin Roell suggested that this was an intended hole in a network made by geeks for other geeks :)
• Fun of introducing people in a meaningful (I hope :) way
• KMwalk in Red Light District
• Thinking on "amplified networking" inspired by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Dave Snowden
• Martin Dugage walking to the coffee corner when I was sure he wouldn't be at KM Europe
• 40+ people at personal KM workshop, energy of conversations in the room and thrill of facilitating it
• PKM dinner fun: people, talks, cockroach killed, food, collecting dinner payments from 35 people, more talking…
• Future PKM research planning with Piers Young and Florian Heidecke
• Finding out that Roberta Cuel comes to Enschede (this is where I live :)
• Not finding energy to join Heiko Haller for a tango party, but finding that I can actually dance it in a middle of coffee area
• Invitation from Richard McDermott to join his workshop and discovering his work on knowledge work
• Talking with John Seely Brown about weblogs, wikis, legitimised theft and meeting at Hawaii
• People I have never met recognising my face or my name or telling that they read my weblog
• Not being able to visit any vendor stands
• Meeting people, conversations and a sense of community

Thinking themes:

• "Amplified networking"
• Personal productivity factors
• Managing "personal knowledge managers": simple rules and emergence, getting things done, organisational support and critical mass
• Triggering reflection
• "Fear factor": fear as a barrier, fear as a driving force
• Different types of networks
• Learning to be
• Defining community and community boundaries

Many notes drafted, hope to post them during coming days (and if you want to help you can cross your fingers to make C&T 2005 deadline extended, so I can blog :)

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