However, there must be a better way, so we reach for alternatives to training, such as knowledge management, performance support, enterprise 2.0, collaboration, and/or social learning. Read the definitions of each concept, and tell me if you see what I see: Knowledge Management : KM comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Enterprise 2.0 MORE

Yesterday I attended the Enterprise 2.0 The Google Wave Federation Protocol is evolving as an open source project, and as the community and technology grows, here are the guiding principles: Wave is an open network: anyone should be able to become a wave provider and interoperate with the public network. Wave is a distributed network model: traffic is routed peer-to-peer, not through a central server. None of them thought Enterprise 2.0 MORE

Two British researchers have just completed a study of undergraduate students that found "many young students are far from being the epitomic global, connected, socially-networked technologically-fluent digital native who has little patience for passive and linear forms of learning." Knowledge Manaement vs. Social Media - Social Computing Magazine. KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, Korean Soon Du Bu. MORE

I also checked out Nancy White’s Communities and Networks site under Discussion Forums , Case Studies of Discussion Forums , and Community Building and Discussion Forums. Business Casual , October 29, 2008 Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2006 Requirement to Social Learning Adoption #2 - Compatibility - Engaged Learning , February 24, 2009 The Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 & MORE

As I read through these, I began to wonder what happened to the idea that KM was going to move along the lines of what Andrew McAfee talks about around Enterprise 2.0. Structure would come from a layer on top such as social bookmarking and digg, and, of course, from search across unstructured content. There would be tools like social networks that would allow us to find people inside and outside the enterprise. MORE

6 Reasons To Use Amplify for Collaborative Learning - The Writers Gateway , March 8, 2010 I recently came across this website called Amplify that works just like Twitter and other social networking sites. Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network , March 4, 2010 Educase piece. Will the same thing happen in social? 0160; My list now contains examples of its use for both formal social learning as well as for enterprise sharing and collaboration. MORE

In this world, you can't really distinguish the mandate of Management Consulting from the mandate of: Enterprise 2.0 In 2019: A workplace learning odyssey Performance support will be built into the workflow and take the form of online tools, networks and coaching. There will be a need for trainers and/or knowledge managers who will guide, coach, be a catalyst for, and monitor social media and informal learning. MORE

T wo years ago, DevLearn and KM World took place simultaneously in downtown San Jose. KM World 2009 is next week. I’ll be in Hope, Arkansas; Washington, DC; and Barcelona during KM World this year, so I’ll miss the show. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done. How different are these KM World talks from the topics we covered at DevLearn ? Today, Enterprise 2.0 People already share knowledge within the enterprise. MORE

Bill Ives - Your Favorite Portals and KM Posts for Last Quarter and Last Year Both posts look at page views of posts and use that as a proxy for what is good / interesting / valuable. However, I've also come to realize that there are some limits with each different kind of social signal (e.g., Because both Nancy and Bill contribute to the Communities and Networks Connection and both have the keyword widget installed, I was able to see. MORE

I Finally Get It--Why Social Networking is so Important What did I learn: The importance of Social Networking and SoMe lie in their ability to help us make sense of the confusing mass of information that bombards us everyday. Defining Knowledge Management and Enterprise 2.0 – Sharing Your Story (Luis Suarez) What did I learn: How KM turns information into decision making tools and what KM actually means. MORE