You may find yourself able to smuggle different kinds of learning (or aids to learning) under the label of “training.” For instance, instead of “setting up a wiki,” you create a “project support site” through which project members can exchange information, share progress, invite comments. So maybe the team gets some kind of formal training to start (as in a software package or in a soft skill area like working as a team), and the support site is how they build and sustain their abilities.

I just stumble from one site to another to a blog link to a comment to an author’s site etc … and on the way accumulate a whole lotta information!

My very basic way has been to just bookmark things that I now have an ever expanding bookmark column which gets difficult to search. I manage the training & competency (I would much rather call it “learning”) side of things for our business unit within a large corporation and believe that if I myself am not constantly learning something new every single day then the whole purpose is defeated. I am constantly trying out new things and immersing myself in loads of reading and research. Sadly, all my efforts are seen as “something nice” one day maybe, for now we have to do things the old-fashioned way and just send people on courses. I’m so happy I’ve stumbled across your blog and I look forward to learning and sharing with you all.

There really is no excuse for ignorance anymore, it is just so simple to learn about anything online now and to do it from the other side of the world is phenomenal.

Greetings from Dubai!

I’m also increasingly using a high-powered concept mapping tool for course design, business planning, and general information management: http://www.compendiuminstitute.org. It handles many types of information, including bookmarks–you just drag the favicon or URL into the Compendium map and the site is added to the map. The result is a visual map of websites, Word docs, PDFs, notes, and other information.

The packets move around in the network. I move around in the Network by going from page to page, from person to person. Eventually an agent representing me will be moving around the network and the packet model will represent the path of least resistance.

Be proud to be a packet. Harold’s atomicity statement has made me proud and glad that I am indivisible. As a Gemini I am always afraid to split up and become like Humpty Dumpty… all the kings bloggers couldn’t put him together again.

In the early stages of the industrial revolution we could not manage industrial workers either. As a critical mass of industrial work became predominant Talorism was possible.

I suspect that same thing will happen with knowledge work. As the volume of knowledge work increases we may very well see specialized knowledge workers working in sweat shops. Knowledge work may become as repetitive as manufacturing work. Some programmers will understand what I mean. I have worked in manufacturing on machines and the work was less repetitive than computer programming.

Welcome to the age of the Blue Collar Knowledge Worker.. Good title for a book.