Things I did in the middle of the night

November 26, 2009

[This blog is also a diary] Somewhere in the middle of the night Alexander woke up for a bit of my attention. Once sleep was broken all kinds of things followed: I kept on returning to conversations at work about empowerment and leadership and drove myself more awake. Got out of the bed thinking that [...]

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Me too: regaining blogging rhythm

November 23, 2009

I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but Elmine’s resolution to blog daily for next 66 days was the last drop I needed to make my own. Having a little kid makes daily blogging pretty unrealistic, but I should be able to manage 4 posts a week till Christmas (I work 4 days a [...]

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How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?

November 16, 2009

When I talk about blogging I often tell that it’s individual, but most of the good things that come out of it are the result of being part of a blogging ecosystem. Which often brings questions on how to do so. The ecosystem is all about connections – between people and online bits (if you [...]

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#NVB09: blogging from a KM perspective

November 12, 2009

My slides for today’s talk at NVB Jaarcongress – blogging from a KM perspective Relevant links: Slide 2: What I talk about is based on my PhD research overview of the approach and studies done dissertation online and in print the findings – PhD conclusions: blogging practices of knowledge workers (appears in the dissertation, pp.207-216) [...]

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Understanding networked professionals: insight from weblog research

November 9, 2009

The slides for my talk at Second international on-line conference on “Innovation in Training Practice”: Understanding networked professionals: insights from weblog research View more presentations from Lilia Efimova. There are quite a few more thinks to add to the talk (links and comments on the questions ;), but this will have to wait till somewhere [...]

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A personal view on knowledge work

November 2, 2009

Today I’m giving an online guest lecture for the course “Knowledge Management as a Theory and Practice” at Graduate School of Management of St.Petersburg State University. It’s on personal KM; since the lecture is very short I decided to do an introduction to the topic based on my own research rather than a comprehensive overview [...]

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Networks, organisations and triangulation

October 16, 2009

Not so surprising that while working on rediscovering where my passions were I re-discovered one that I knew was there. But now I have a new name for it. First a bit of a story. Last years were a great journey into a networked world – living and working “on the network”, emerging from social [...]

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#KM4Dev: Cynefin and dealing with complexity

October 12, 2009

Fresh from Cognitive Edge accreditation workshops Nancy White and me did an Open Space session to share with the participants of KM4Dev workshop some of the things we had learned about the Cynefin framework. The Cynefin(pronounced /?k?n?v?n/) framework is a model used to describe problems, situations and systems. The model provides a taxonomy that guides [...]

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#KM4Dev – blogging session

October 9, 2009

Pretty unexpectedly I ended up doing a session on blogging at #KM4Dev workshop. It was part of the social reporting afternoon and was supposed to provide the participants with opportunities to get hands-on experiences with various tools and actually do social reporting of the group work done beforehand. It didn’t really work that way: we [...]

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Some thoughts on #KM4Dev

October 6, 2009

It’s nice to be a newcomer – you can go around, say that you are new and don’t know much and ask stupid questions. This is what I have been doing at KM4Dev meeting so far. It’s always nice and strange to discover a network of people who do work and think on issues close [...]

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What makes a company…

October 5, 2009

My company is in transition: what worked in the past doesn’t work anymore and getting a clear picture of the future is not easy. This raises all kinds of issues and emotions that I don’t want to share in this space. I picked up the quote below a while ago, but was avoiding writing about [...]

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Safe-fail probes and diffusion of innovations

October 1, 2009

When we discussed safe-fail probes at CE accreditation course I was struck by the parallels between those and Roger’s characteristics of innovations that influence it’s adoption [from Wikipedia on diffision of innovations]: Rogers defines several intrinsic characteristics of innovations that influence an individual’s decision to adopt or reject an innovation. The relative advantage is how [...]

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Communities and coffee with Nancy White on 5 October

October 1, 2009

Nancy White is one of the people I turn to when looking for an expertise on online communities: she is well grounded in theory, but, most important, she mastered the art and craft of facilitating communities in practice. The good thing is that a lot of it is now documented in a book Digital Habitats: [...]

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CPsquare foundations: themes and questions to explore

September 23, 2009

Last Monday I started online CPsquare foundations workshop. I’ve been hanging on the periphery of CPsquare way too long, so this is a great opportunity to dive in to learn and to make connections. I thought of making a list of things that I’d like to learn during the workshop, but, from what I’ve seen [...]

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