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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. Adobe was kind enough to pick up the tab.

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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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Conversation on Conversations

Tony Karrer

There are very specific limits to using codified knowledge and that Conversation Learning is essential. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that we really are doing much to address this important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. I've also discussed it in I've talked about it in Leveraging Networks Skill and Networks and Communities.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

Matt Moore in an article Learning & Knowledge = ? PDF) and his associated blog post Learning + Knowledge = ? L&D and KM share something simple: an interest in improving the performance of an organisation through increased capability. They are smaller and marginal players. Management will be the primary owner.

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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. Again, you can go back to Networks and Learning Communities to see quite a bit about all of this.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learner is banned because no one but the training community uses the term. They are workers first, and learners second. Collaborative networks, expertise locators, reducing fear of failure, graphic design, workspace architecture, and many other techniques increase the productivity of informal learning. That concept is broken.