Nick Leffler

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Don’t Control Knowledge, Let the Base Free

Nick Leffler

Hopefully dropping some knowledge on the knowledge-base will open the flood gates. There’s been a few times when a knowledge base has popped up in my world lately, from where I put things in a closed internal environment to being available to the public. What role do you need in the knowledge base? Let it free.

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Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

Nick Leffler

Idea Management and Design, that sounds close to what I know as Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). Harold Jarche has many models and forms of making sense of information and learning with his Seek-Sense-Share framework. Group knowledge I think can be a problem. ideas, group knowledge has the power to create sameness.

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

There’s a lot of information coming at us. It’s more important than ever to learn how to manage all this information. It’s not possible to read everything you run across, so it’s important to learn how to manage information in a meaningful way. Sometimes it really does feel like this. Am I alone there?

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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning

Nick Leffler

How do you make them feel less overwhelmed in an information rich environment? They are ways to find those answers and broaden your knowledge in a field you didn’t know you had interest in. Social Motivation. The challenging part to social learning is motivation. How do you motivate people to want to explore? Call to Action.

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Modeling a Training Framework

Nick Leffler

is a lot of information, then you add showing it to them into the mix and it has now become overwhelming and tiresome. Sometimes frameworks can be useful but only if you have a great knowledge of the requirements in the first place. Telling someone how to do something (or even about it!) Are Frameworks Useful? Do I use any frameworks?

Training 100
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Who Is The Real Project Stakeholder?

Nick Leffler

Their best interest is to impart their knowledge to others overwhelming as it may be to somebody new to the topic. Subject Matter Expert – Knows all the information you need to make it a success. The SME is close to the content, they want people to know everything they do, and their job is extremely important to them.

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Learning From Others

Nick Leffler

It’s easy to learn something new and have it melt into my mind quickly becoming part of the knowledge that’s already there. Giving a place to reflect, learn, share what’s learned with the ability to retrieve the information later. I need to start thinking about and sharing when I’m learning something new.