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From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management

Jane Hart

Acquiring new knowledge and skills – e.g. Finding solutions to their own personal performance problems and/or improving their own productivity – through quick and easy access to on-demand resources and by constantly reviewing the tools in their personal toolkit. But there’s more to it than just using Twitter or Facebook!

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About blogging, tunneling visions and knowledge entrepreneurship

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Julie is doing research for the university of Amsterdam (VU) into (micro-)blogging as part of her PdD research about knowledge and power in the development sector. This research had the goal to investigate how knowledge related to a shared organising vision (in this case (ICT4D, about ICT for development).

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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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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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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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Follow the instructions or think for yourself?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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. Tags: knowledge workers elearning knowledge management. I fell into the same trap when I was trying to locate a physiotherapist with google maps.

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

ID Reflections

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. 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? I would love to learn from the challenges you’ve faced and overcome….

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