Knowledge is a kind of cognitive or conceptual dark matter that we know must exist, but measuring and quantifying it, and demonstrating it is a complex business Knowledge. Tags: e-learning corporate knowledge definition of elearning definition of knowledge elearning KB KM knowledge ecosystem Knowledge Management knowledge worker MORE

Blogs are knowledge objects that can make bottom-up (i.e. useful) knowledge management a reality. In his Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization ( JOHO }, David Weinberger describes the role of blogs inside corporations : I continue to believe that for many companies the best path to blogging is by using them internally as a knowledge management tool. The dream of KM has been that people will write down what they know. MORE

However, there must be a better way, so we reach for alternatives to training, such as knowledge management, performance support, enterprise 2.0, 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. knowledge management Social Learning MORE

Knowledge Manaement vs. Social Media - Social Computing Magazine. KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, with the Gen X leadership quietly slipping the best of the KM ideas into SM as they guide the bottom-up revolution." Korean Soon Du Bu. MORE

The benefits of knowledge management (KM) are a monster value-add to any organization. Some might think large enterprises require significant resources to carry forward a KM initiative. A Flash History of Knowledge Management. Then each would become a teacher and spread knowledge throughout the empire. I know there are nuances and specifics necessary in many systems and it’s no different in KM. What is Knowledge Management. MORE

These are your “knowledge brokers”. Once we establish that, we need to determine how to tap into their minds and create an osmotic gradient: move knowledge from where it is highly concentrated to where it is needed, through the eLearning channel. MORE

Knowledge Management (KM) has been described as “the process of capturing, sharing, and leveraging a company’s collective expertise” Knowledge Management 101 is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning definition of elearning don morrison elearning KB KM Knowledge Management marc rosenberg smart enterprise MORE

There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. 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. KM would become more of an issue of how you provide structure and get leverage on these free-form tools. MORE

Needless to say, identifying tacit knowledge is a major hurdle for most organizations. Differentiating tacit and explicit knowledge is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning corporate knowledge definition of elearning definition of knowledge elearning explicit knowledge formal knowledge KB KM knowledge ecosystem Knowledge Management tacit knowledge MORE

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge , just keeping up has become a major corporate imperative. Discovering opportunities and gaps in knowledge flows, improving personal networking and finding experts (in larger firms). MORE

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. DevLearn and KM World. MORE

The knowledge managers among us will know what I’m talking about… Erin: Hey! knowledge management collaboration Erin Brockovich km participatory cultureI watched Erin Brockovich again last night. It’s an excellent movie. MORE

What makes knowledge so hard to capture? The tricky tacit and explicit knowledge sharing. In this article, we will define knowledge and how using your LMS, you can share tacit and explicit knowledge using some knowledge management strategies. MORE

Knowledge Management Contexts: Peter Drucker is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning definition of elearning don morrison elearning KB KM Knowledge Management knowledge worker peter drucker Many of the work concepts and practices we associate with the Information Age were developed in an era more typically identified with heavy industry. MORE

By now, what we call the “2020 Information Age”, knowledge has become an asset. Immeasurable And all the while you thought, your eLearning efforts had been enough to generate “knowledge” within your company to coax in enough ROI, the much anticipated green bills. Knowledge. MORE

You know its interesting to see the way in which people involved in social computing are paranoid about distinguishing themselves from Knowledge Management (KM). Boomer Reality - Manage Smater. Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping - User Interface Twelve. In woodworking, sandpaper comes in different grains. MORE

Traditionally, the path to investigating knowledge management is - appropriately - by attempting to categorize the knowledge. Categories of Knowledge is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning corporate knowledge definition of elearning definition of knowledge elearning explicit knowledge formal knowledge KB KM knowledge ecosystem Knowledge Management tacit knowledge MORE

A simple approach to KM. Learn about how a simple knowledge management strategy can benefit an organization. This March, we’ve picked our top 10 e-Learning articles for you. Take a look at them, and share your favorites on social! Books For Learning Designers To Read in 2014. MORE

It's important to look at the nature of knowledge and it's role in the life of individuals and organizations. The Problem of Knowledge is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning corporate knowledge definition of elearning definition of knowledge elearning KB KM knowledge ecosystem Knowledge Management knowledge worker MORE

billion a year by failing to share knowledge” ( Babcock , 2004). Due to the current pace of change, Knowledge Management (KM) and Knowledge Transfer (KT) have become essential for business organizations (Tyler et al 2007). Transferring knowledge into action. MORE

The answer, in part, is through using advanced knowledge-management (KM) techniques. Design Strategies Instructional Design Interface Design Learning Systems Management How does Amazon.com so effortlessly connect “zillions” of people with “zigabytes” of product information? In the eLearning. field, we can learn a lot from how Amazon approaches the relationship between customers and information. MORE

These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. Big KM = enterprise KM, lots of structure. Little KM = processes used by distributed teams. Personal KM = ad hoc, DIY, cheap/free. My side comments are in italics. Sense-making with PKM. When he moved to consulting and didn’t have an IT department and those resources, he realized he had to do something different. MORE

Gurteen Knowledge: 10 Years in KM Related articles by Zemanta David Gurteen: Isn't KM everyone's job? nickmilton.com) David Gurteen: Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (opsregs.com) David Gurteen: Measuring KM: Measures, Targets and Rewards (slideshare.net) David Gurteen: People 2.0: World (slideshare.net) David Gurteen: Blog>> Two Pillars of Implementing KM Initiatives (greenchameleon.com). MORE

Is KM dead? Knowledge Management) have failed to advance learning. They write: The best KM systems succeeded at capturing and institutionalizing the knowledge of the firm. The folks with the knowledge were often reluctant to put what they knew into the database. The folks seeking the knowledge often had trouble finding what they needed. This doesn’t happen in the typical knowledge management system. MORE

The KM community has seen themselves as uniquely different from the eLearning community as well. But taking the best of Social Media, Knowledge Management, eLearning, User Assistance (and others) and combining them together gives us Enterprise 2.0 I just wanted to quickly share this article from SocialComputingMagazine.com. However, from where I'm sitting its starting to look like Social Media technologies are slowly devouring both fields.and others. MORE

The Learning Cafe community is coming across requirements for designing Learning Solutions to effectively use and retain organisational knowledge. Are you designing Learning Solutions with the objective of making organisational knowledge available to those who don’t have it ? MORE

KM can function as a framework for learning content – what he describes as the difference between “Course-centric and Knowledge-centric viewpoints” Knowledge Management 101-b is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning definition of elearning don morrison elearning KB KM Knowledge Management marc rosenberg smart enterprise MORE

Knowledge management (KM) has had a rough go of it. KM is important, so what. This month’s column from Marc offers a start on gaining better understanding of what KM is, and what it can and. Learning Systems Management Training StrategiesHot topic one year, dead the next, repeat. can we do? can’t do. This time, we’ll think big but start smaller, learn as we go along, be ready to scale when needed. Here’s how! MORE

It has long been thought that propensities for visual or verbal learning styles influence how children acquire knowledge successfully and how adults reason in every-day life; however, there was no empirical link to this hypothesis from cognitive neuroscience. MORE

The Convergence of Learning and Knowledge Management - Mohamed Amine Chatti's ongoing research on Technology Enhanced Learning. Learning and KM solutions have to fuse; that we should speak about union and fusion of the two fields rather than intersection or complementary relationship between them and that the two fields are increasingly similar in terms of input, outcome, processes, activities, components, tools, concepts, and terminologies. MORE

Interesting discussion going on with contribution by Luis Suarez, Jay Cross, David Wilson - around the distinction between Knowledge Management and Learning: Knowledge Management and Informal Learning Knowledge Management and Learning - Separated at Birth? KM & learning: separated at birth? MORE

What makes knowledge so hard to capture? The tricky tacit and explicit knowledge sharing. In this article, we will define knowledge and how using your LMS, you can share tacit and explicit knowledge using some knowledge management strategies. MORE

Denham Grey on knowledge and information. Much of what purports to be knowledge management is in reality information management. Just the other day I heard a rep selling scanners as a core KM technology, "essential for knowledge sharing," without which the organization was doomed to be bypassed by every other firm going down the knowledge track MORE

The first few weeks here, I did not fully appreciate the depth of this message till I came across the following video by Nick Milton of Knoco.com discussing data, information and knowledge. KM isn’t about helping us to know more. And this is also the root of knowledge. MORE

They are a nuisance, impossible to navigate, and you can’t really store anything meaningful in them anyway, since real knowledge is quite impossible to put onto a piece of paper. Lately, I’ve been thinking we’re ready to pull down the silos housing, respectively, Training, CLO, KM, OD, and Corporate Communications. Strategically re-configuring the CLO+KM+OD+Com function needs to bolster the worthwhile functions and shut down the unworthy ones. MORE

I have just been reading the following post from HBR: The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy This reminded me of one of my earlier posts on KM: Data, Information, Insight.A In that, I had mentioned what Luis Suarez says about knowledge and included a YouTube video by Nick Milton on data, information and knowledge. Tags: Knowledge Management collaborative learning Reflection MORE

Over the next period of time I will dissect the phrase knowledge management. Knowledge Management and E-Learning is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning definition of elearning don morrison elearning KB KM Knowledge Management MORE