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Gurteen Knowledge Letter celebrates 10th birthday

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

David Gurteen has written his “Knowledge Letter&# every month for the last ten years. I’ve followed David’s adventures in Knowledge Management for years. David’s site also provides reviews of KM books, biographies of thought leaders, and more. It’s my primary KM reference site.

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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.

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Conversation on Conversations

Tony Karrer

Drafting a program to teach adults to use the right means of knowledge transfer is probably at least as difficult as teaching children to be discerning about information accessible on the Internet. Yet there is no doubt that discernment forms a large part of selecting efficient and effective means for knowledge transfer.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. Jay Cross in Ten Years After puts it: In a knowledge society, learning is the work.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 10/04/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Alphabetical order - KM World. The knowledge (worker) economy - KM World. How many knowledge workers are there? The metaphor drawer - KM World. Metaphors are a category of personal knowledge management (PKM) tools. He would hate what's going on now. Although the U.S.

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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. Help people manage the content and organization of their desktop. But it shouldn't just be me.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here we go: Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. Knowledge management may be two words, but it’s a single concept. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable. Traditional, top-down KM has failed over and over again.