Nick Leffler

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Don’t Control Knowledge, Let the Base Free

Nick Leffler

Just as trying to organize information into neat categories rarely works and is not useful, so is access levels useless. This method of organizing and controlling access to information is a remnant of the hierarchy. It takes a lot of management and maintenance to keep information up-to-date, perhaps more than is possible.

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Who Is The Real Project Stakeholder?

Nick Leffler

If you ask this to most Instructional Designers you’ll often get the following two answers: Subject Matter Expert (SME). One is the Subject Matter Expert and the other is the Business Partner. Subject Matter Expert – Knows all the information you need to make it a success. Business Partner. Incorrect Answers.

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Employees Avoiding Corporate Barriers

Nick Leffler

If there’s not good place on an organizations network to drop that video to have the subject matter expert review, it’s going to be stored in Dropbox. Employees want and deserve their information now so they can get work done better and faster. That reduces the barrier for the employee and allows work to get done faster.

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Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

Nick Leffler

Harold Jarche has many models and forms of making sense of information and learning with his Seek-Sense-Share framework. Of course this is my first impression without any interference from the outside, we’ll see if my impression holds true though. After reading a few lines from the MSLOC430 blog it really does sound like PKM.

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What Sharing Ideas At Work Does For Us

Nick Leffler

I have no desire to be the subject matter expert that holds my knowledge like a currency that people are trying to steal. Think about a subject matter expert who doesn’t make their knowledge available to others unless forced and then it’s a one way road. They spew information as others record it. We Listen, We Think.

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Looking Back On 2015

Nick Leffler

Even if it were good information, a morning routine hardly determines success. 3 Tips For Learning Online — I wrote 3 tips for a larger article with 101 tips from the experts for learning online. 3 Tips For Learning Online — I wrote 3 tips for a larger article with 101 tips from the experts for learning online.

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