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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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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. Yet there is no doubt that discernment forms a large part of selecting efficient and effective means for knowledge transfer. While this is complex, it's very important.

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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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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 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. Most of the knowledge workers seek is tacit and beyond the reach of databased systems.