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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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Conversation on Conversations

Tony Karrer

In Love the Conversation – Ken Allan discusses the complexity of helping concept workers with the skills around this: The question here is where to start. There are very specific limits to using codified knowledge and that Conversation Learning is essential.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

Knowledge Management Learning & Development I do think there's a slightly different historical mind set and skill set, but Training Departments are going to need to think and act quite different or they will be marginal. Matt Moore in an article Learning & Knowledge = ?

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

No one can see the engrossed look on my face when I read discussion threads in the Learning and Skills group. Let them figure out the value they would want to get from it is probably as good as it gets in order to allow for knowledge workers to understand how, when, why and what to contribute, whenever they may be ready.

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Online Coaching

Tony Karrer

A culture that provides access to other people who support learning in a wide variety of ways Easy access to materials that support learning Skills in utilizing electronic tools to manage learning. In other words, possibly supporting ongoing learning to build management skills for a group of new managers. It's somewhat event oriented.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable. Traditional, top-down KM has failed over and over again. It’s based on the assumption that an elite can figure out what workers need to know, package it as explicit data, and serve it up in a database.