Selecting 5 KM books

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 2, 2004
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Denham Grey suggests 5 books to get you started in KM. I would add Nancy Dixon’s Common Knowledge. Nancy provides a useful way of thinking …

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Abstract – Community variety from a complexity perspective

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 2, 2004
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Hi Nancy, thanks for your comment. Here is the abstract for the paper. A new framework for communities of practice is required to unite the …

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I’m not joking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 1, 2004
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Downloaded Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman from Audible on the weekend. What I’ve heard so far (300 pages retold in 12 hours) is one great …

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Advancing civilization

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2004
Filed in Insight

“Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” —ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

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Podcasting

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2004
Filed in Communication

We know more than we can say, and we will say more than we can write down. This aphorism might be one of the reasons …

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Enhancement to knowledge strategy

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2004
Filed in Strategy

A couple of years ago I developed a simple approach to developing knowledge strategies. The premise was simple–that a strategy should incrememtally enhance the ‘knowledge …

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Communities and the role of variety

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2004
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I just heard today that a chapter Trish Milne and I wrote has been published. The book is called Human Perspectives in the Internet Society …

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Communities and Social Networks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2004
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Matt Moore made a good comment in response to my last blog entry I have recently been trying to link the thinking on Small World …

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Types of Tacit Knowledge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2004
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There has been some discussion during November in ActKM about whether tacit knowledge can be captured. Opinion ranged from ‘definitely yes’ to ‘absolutely no’. This …

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Mapping Communities

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 24, 2004
Filed in Collaboration

It is difficult to build a community of practice from scratch. In fact, the construction metaphor of ‘building’ a community is inappropriate. Rather, it is …

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