While our platform itself places no restrictions on where users can post content and while we have a really powerful search engine, the mental model of folders to place your information is still prevalent. Coming back to our social business platform though, the primary driver for this initiative was to answer a long standing knowledge management challenge at ThoughtWorks. How does the traditional world view of knowledge management fit in the world of social business? Managing digital knowledge that matters to you, requires deliberate practice. MORE >>

Can be browsed - Lead – Potential information for inclusion in BPCh. Could be feedback, story, lesson learned, experience etc - Story – narratives or “war stories”, Lessons learned BPCh leads with a different approach - Stores EVIDENCE information about how each practice was used in different situations and the results - Acknowledges that not all good practices best - Content includes descriptions of past results in context Context – sensitive search environment. Tagging (additional keywords / information) + allow to add keywords to find materials. Often manual. MORE >>

Many of the work concepts and practices we associate with the Information Age were developed in an era more typically identified with heavy industry. Knowledge Management Contexts: Peter Drucker is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning definition of elearning don morrison elearning KB KM Knowledge Management knowledge worker peter drucker MORE >>

Managers are starting to think differently, staff definitely has a mind of their own and are more empowered each day and the focus on collaboration is much more than we saw even 3-4 years back. From Single Source to Crowd Sourced There was a time when we believed in single sources of good information. People believed these authentic sources of information because the people that created information were hugely qualified and apparently quite talented in their field. Apparently that was for 'information security' ! learning communication knowledge management MORE >>

38% of our time we spend looking for information and Yammer can reduce that time span. But nice to see the examples of various uses of Yammer and how it has opened up knowledge in organisations and made it accessible, through the use of a social approach. I'm also convinced from a knowledge management/organisational le arning prespective you can influence the direction of the conversations that you would like to see on Yammer. At Rijkswaterstaat there is a community manager. knowledge management informal learningWhat is Yammer? Read Dutch? MORE >>