This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Activity streams and collaboration platforms can enhance and support such awareness but not replace it. If anyone reading this is a knowledge worker and is thinking about working from home, read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. Are you a knowledge worker working from home? Knowledge Management Reflection MORE >>

'Knowledge-sharing practices are highly contextual. This makes sense when you consider that knowledge sharing is deeply personal as well as social, so it reflects the larger culture and the particular workplace. 2011 study (via David Gurteen ) concluded that even in the same company, knowledge management practices are different (note that the authors define Ba as shared context in motion ). So, for large organizations, not only will no single technology platform meet all your knowledge-sharing, collaboration and cooperation needs, but no single approach will either. MORE >>

The big shift: how do we move from stocks of knowledge (knowledge assets), to a world that is ever changing => participation becomes central, which redefines learning and creation. We move from stocks to flows (participating in knowledge flows). So we are at a crisis of Imagination: what can these technologies do, that we did not do before? The importance of the tacit becomes more important (that of which we have only a limited notion, needs to be materialized to make it knowledge that can be taught). He just wrote another book called " The power of pull ". MORE >>

Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto since 1983 wrote McLuhan for Managers in 2003. in a corporate learning setting as follows: Philosophy – shifting from training is an event, to learning is continuous, connected & collaborative. Alignment – being less fixated on a centralized training function, and more on a federated (hub and spoke if you will) talent and collaboration holistic entity. Shamefully, I didn’t know about the book until this year, courtesy of Jon Husband. MORE >>

Those organizations (and frankly public learning institutions) that are clinging to their standalone learning management systems as a way in which to serve up formal ILT course schedules and eLearning are absolutely missing the big picture. Sure, clever instructors, faculty and learning administration management/leadership teams may find clever, albeit independent, ways in which to embed some form of informal and/or social learning before as well as after the event, but this is merely triage as opposed to a lobotomy. Find a way to integrate it into your collaboration platform. MORE >>