cloc category archives

James Robertson makes an interesting claim in "Collaboration tools are anti knowledge sharing?" The short idea is that the tools can create information islands that limit sharing at the larger level.

I had the opportunity to revisit how I define knowledge management and came up with "How are people using technology, information and one another to get work done."

Bill Brantley describes How education/training has changed in the last three years for him. People want to be able to remix their content, no matter what the source.

For those that have been following my blog for at least three months, you'll know that I've had my students reading blogs and keeping their own. Here is a summary of that experience.

Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?

One of my students wrote a curious piece last week on "Incongruent Arithmetic." Getting divorced is an example of addition by subtraction. And continuing through the article had me thinking that this really makes sense.

My students were given a crash course in what blogs are about by reading a dozen KM-related blogs. Now they've set up their own blogs and have been asked to reflect what they think at this point. Here's a summary.

In describing RSS and aggregation to my students, I came up with a useful metaphor of streams. Feel free to borrow and adapt this.

As with the past instances of my knowledge management class at Northwestern, I asked the students to reflect on their own "personal knowledge management" practices.

John Barben wants to know What's happened over the last year in social software? I think it is simply that social software is now a known quantity by a large portion of the populace.

My ten weeks of teaching KM in Northwestern's Learning and Organizational Change program starts tonight. As I mentioned previously, I am going to introduce a quarter-long project where the students will read blogs and create their own.

I am going into my third round of teaching a knowledge management class in Northwestern's Masters of Learning and Organizational Change program. I'm looking for suggestions and guidance on this topic: what works well, where do I need to tread carefully.

I am talking about Theory of Constraints Monday (22 January) evening through my association with Northwestern's Center for Learning and Organizational Change . This will be an introduction to the concept.

The 12 September meeting of KM Chicago will host one of my masters advisees, Rickie Tinimbang, discussing his capstone research, The Knowledge Brain Drain.

Maron Demissie, one of the students in the MS LOC program at Northwestern, has just completed her Master's Capstone entitled, "The Quest for Increased Knowledge Sharing Within Design Firms."