Friday’s Finds (Oct 26th)

  by  gbaku 

 

In keeping with my promise to keep seeking, sensing and sharing as much as I’m able, here’s my October 26th edition of Friday’s Finds.

Great Thinking:

• Harold Jarche proposes that organisations operate in a system of networked unmanagement. Provocative stuff! I liked this: “How to solve problems together is becoming the real business imperative. Sharing and using knowledge in new ways is where business value lies.”

• What does it mean to become a collaborative, networked organisation? Jane Hart explains. (SO good)

• “People learn a little in formal training, but they learn so much more in trying and failing and asking questions.” Jack Vinson (via Harold Jarche)

• “…we have been ‘educated’ to reject [our] human nature and instead of sharing our knowledge not only for our very own benefit, but that of others, we have been taught how we need to protect it, to hoard it from others, because ‘knowledge is power’ and if we release our knowledge, we release our power, when we know it’s rather the opposite: knowledge SHARED is power.” Luis Suarez (of IBM)

• The role of the content governor in UX. Designing for User Experience (UX) & the value of metadata.

New concepts:

• I learned that heutagogy takes andragogy one step further. I still wonder how learners can develop the ability to self-direct and continuously learn. I’ve ruminated on this in an earlier post, and Jeff Merrell took it further with his recent post on digital literacy. Have any thoughts?

Friday’s Finds

  by  woodleywonderworks 

 

 

I’ve been inspired to start sharing some things that catch my attention each week. Here goes!

It’s been a heavy week of organisational Knowledge Management (KM) boot camp for me…

Great Thinking: 

• How do we avoid hoarding info that we don’t use & make sure the good stuff is easy to quickly access? I like James Tyer’s thinking about Personal Knowledge Management in his blog last week & I was happy to see him discuss the results of his experimentation here. Currently trying this out… 
• The power of vulnerability (it’s the best way to learn). If you have 20 minutes to spare, it’s worth it.

•  “Stories are the best delivery mechanism for knowledge” Benjamin Ellis

• “The value of knowledge is in the network [comprised of individuals], not the artifacts” Stephanie Barnes

 Storify:

• I found a great KM conference (#kmw12). By reading about the presentations & asking clarifying questions from experts who were chatting in the backchannel, I was able to further refine my thinking about how KM can work in the organisational context. I Storified some of the good stuff here.

• Related to that last point, I remembered this short case study (the first slide in particular) that I’d recently Storified about the importance of culture and trust in knowledge sharing. Key!