Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Facilitation for engineers and scientists

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 19, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

It’s interesting how I’ve found myself drawn into discussion lately around the difficulties of facilitating engineers and scientists. If facilitating engineers and scientists is difficult, …

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New whitepaper – how to talk about knowledge management

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 18, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

For years we have been listening to presentations, reading articles and working with organisations in the KM field and probably the only consistent theme is the lack …

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Some complexity quotes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 3, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m always on the lookout for good quotes. I found these in the forward to Michael Lissack and Johan Roos’ book The Next Common Sense: …

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Stories, ROI and communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
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Steve Denning has compiled some of his recent posts on list-servs like com-prac and made the compilation available on his website. He covers the following …

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Lessons from MySpace on getting communities established

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 25, 2006
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Aber Whitcomb, CTO for MySpace, revealed to Robert Scoble some of the secrets behind MySpace’s popularity. They sound similar to the advise one might give to anyone starting a …

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Incubating communities of practice thru projects

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 17, 2006
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I was reminded last week that projects provide great opportunities to develop communities of practice.  No surprises really, with all that project time and effort …

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Thoughts from Karl-Erik

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 9, 2006
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Karl-Erik Sveiby was one of the keynote speakers at the KM for Professional Services conference in Sydney last week.  I was fortunate to have dinner …

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ActKM: the story of a community

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 5, 2006
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A paper Trish Milne and I wrote over 12 months ago has just been published in the Journal of Knowledge Management. It’s called ActKM: the …

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New web-based collaboration tool

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 4, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m always on the lookout for better tools for collaboration. foldera looks impressive and while it has only been available on the web for 12 days, and still in …

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Rebuilding a community of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
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Last month actKM faced a disaster. On the 15th January YahooGroups deleted the actKM group. It’s a long story and not really the point of …

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