I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? - Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn? – Generally down to 10%. How many of you get really high value from LinkedIn? - Now down to 2-5% I am continually surprised by this result ( Getting Value from LinkedIn ).

I'm currently reading Matthew Gardner's Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, and it's raising some interesting questions about "knowledge work" and where we may be going with the information economy. (For Although the primary goal is to get us to think about the trades in a different way, in doing so Gardner makes us consider the possibility that many forms of "knowledge work" are in fact glorified factory work, performed in cubicles rather than on the shop floor. For a decent summary of some of Gardner's main points, check out his NYT Magazine article, The Case for Working with Your Hands ).

But I was quickly called on that, and reminded that blogging really is a career tool - it’s probably one of those “knowledge worker skills” that people working with information should really become proficient. Tags: knowledge worker skills community blogging Uncategorized networks instructional technolog I promised to write a summary of the responses I received to this post on blogging as reflective practice, so here it is (better late than never!). Not only did I write about blogging as a mechanism for learning on this blog, I wrote about it

The short version in this post describes blogging practices of knowledge workers in respect to specific parts of the framework below that provides a view on what knowledge work entails . Knowledge workers choose to use blogging as an instrument when it works for them and do it intentionally, ad-hoc or in retrospect. In business settings blogging In case you were wondering: I’m almost there, submitting dissertation in two weeks. I

Lilia introduced me to the concept of personal knowledge management. Lilia is finishing her dissertation on the blogging practices of knowledge workers and has summarized her conclusions. Blogs are now mainstream and it’s no longer necessary to explain what one is. It wasn’t that long ago that bloggers were being put down as a bunch of guys in pyjamas.

Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn and to perform effectively. The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Tags: Jay Cross workplace learning formal learning learning characteristics knowledge worker Kevin Kruse corporate learning environment non-formal learning informal learnin How do people learn? Why?

So it could be the knowledge worker2.0 Irene Hanraets alerted me about this video about the networked student by wdrexler: The way the networked student uses web2.0 services is basically the way I use them. too.

Diversity of Output Knowledge workers solve problems and generate outputs largely by resort to structures internal to themselves rather than by resort to external rules or procedures. In other words, each knowledge worker develops a different internal “configuration” based on changes wrought in their thinking and outlook by the situations they have encountered, the information they have absorbed and the particular way they have made sense of these. . . On the Work Literacy blog Michele Martin posted on a paper written by Allison Kid.  The thing I

Distributed cognition is a branch of cognitive science that proposes that human knowledge and cognition are not confined to the individual. Instead, it is distributed by placing memories, facts, or knowledge on the objects, individuals, and tools in our environment. Multi-tasking is a necessity for techies, and now anyone who calls herself a knowledge worker. This blog post is courtesy @quinnovator and his latest post on Distributed Thinking and Learning . So if you are one of my school team mates, sorry but I had to get this out of my head before editing any more

Tags: knowledge workers elearning knowledge managemen I found this cartoon on the blog of Marnix Catteeuw . If you can't read the text, you can go to his blog. It was originally posted on the xkcd blog . I fell into the same trap when I was trying to locate a physiotherapist