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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

T wo years ago, DevLearn and KM World took place simultaneously in downtown San Jose. I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. KM World 2009 is next week. I wonder if many KM fans will join us.

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Gurteen Knowledge Letter celebrates 10th birthday

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

David’s site also provides reviews of KM books, biographies of thought leaders, and more. It’s my primary KM reference site. David has been a major influence on my views of knowledge management. The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based KM newsletter for Knowledge Workers.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

Well not quite, but it is pretty dang close to the definition of Management Consulting in Wikipedia: Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

In terms of finding people with experience on this, my first suggestion was using LinkedIn and particularly looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. Of course, there’s no easy answers here, but lots we can discuss and learn around this.

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Online Coaching

Tony Karrer

As I've said many times, for concept workers work and learning are inseparable. For a knowledge worker, generally its something like the start of a new project or a new kind of situation that sparks the need for learning. And likely defined initially in terms of a set of learning objectives. But it shouldn't just be me.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

His words were dirty; mine are bad for business. You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. However, MIT’s Andy McAfee warns that executives who hear social flash on scenes of Woodstock and other non-business activities. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable. Most of them are four letters long.