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Personal in Personal Knowledge Management

Tony Karrer

Harold and I have discussed this exact issue before and we are both on the same page that Personal is really important word in Personal Knowledge Management. Studies of Personal Information Management say that what works is often highly personal. However, a lot can be gained from sharing approaches and practices.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Bonds don’t form over a Skype call but over coffee and lunch when conversations veer to the personal and discussions revolve around interests. 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?

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About blogging, tunneling visions and knowledge entrepreneurship

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Blogging may hence be an important activity for professional development of knowledge workers and can help develop their professional identity. Blogging helped them in sense-making, development of ideas and reflection on their practice as 'reflective practitioners'. is doing to amplify the voices of bloggers in different countries.

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Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment

Tony Karrer

What sparks this post is the combination of a recent post by Stephen Downes that includes a brief exchange with Jay Cross in the comments and some interesting discussions in the Enterprise 2.0 world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation?

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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

From: Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives by Brian Uzzi I have split the quotation above into two parts ( the numbers are my inserts and not a part of the original quote ), which I have discussed below. This has been extensively discussed by Morten T.

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Breaking out of the Traditional, Monolithic Learning Management Technology

Instancy

technologies enable rapid knowledge content creation by not just having a one-directional information flow from the instructional designer or subject matter expert to the learner. There is a big push now to encourage participation from the end-users/knowledge-workers – a community–based learning and knowledge management environment.

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Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong!

Tony Karrer

I've been slowly making my way through Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living - How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. Partisans of blogging argue that there are many potential business applications of the technology (and they discuss these applications in their blogs!). well here it is.

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