Mathemagenic: Lilia Efimova

13:51 11/06/2004 Mathemagenic: Lilia Efimova

Mathemagenic
on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance...

Lilia Efimova

Lilia in green. Click to read why. This is rather informal introduction of who I am.

If you want something more formal, you can read about my PhD research or check my profiles at LinkedIn, KnowledgeBoard or E-xecutive.ru (in Russian). You can also find me at Ryze, Orkut, Flickr and somewhere around if you look well :)
If you want to contact me, please, use this form
If you are wondering why my hair is green, read The one who is blogging
If you are up to a longer and more eclectic intro, check 100 things about me
And my Amazon wish list in case you feel like making me smile thinking of you :)

Addicted to learning

I’m addicted to learning. I’m curious to know how this world works. I love the fun of discovery.

Learning fascinates me. I want to know how and why people learn. I want to know how you can help someone to learn. I love the fun of helping others to learn. After starting blogging, I discovered that this helps me in my own learning.

Learning professional

I’m addicted to learning, but I’m trying to do it professionally. At the end, why not earning money doing something you enjoy so much? My work is focused on studying, designing, facilitating, managing learning in all shapes. I don’t care under which name it comes – training, teaching, human resources development, e-learning, knowledge management – as far as it’s about helping others to learn, I would sign for it.

With technology around

I’m curious to see how new technologies are changing the way we work and learn, and I don’t mind to be my own "guinea pig". I don’t know why do I have that: may be coincidence, may be genes (my parents worked a lot with computers).

From practice to research and back

I’m thinking about myself as about practitioner. I was teaching, training and coaching, designing, developing and managing learning programs in different contexts. Then my drive to learn more brought me into doing research on learning. I’m becoming a scientist now, but my focus is still on helping practitioners to do their work better. I believe that one day I will have those two sides together.

Building bridges

I enjoy building connections: connections between people, cultures, theories, practices, contexts. I’m always finding myself building bridges. The latest one is about relating knowledge management and learning.

Between two countries

I’m Russian. So far I work in the Netherlands, but one day will go back. I like this "between two countries" dimension of my life: it gives richer perspective on everything I’m doing.

comments

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: 11/22/2006; 6:59:28 PM.