Harold Jarche

This week, a few related knowledge management (KM) articles crossed my path and I’d like to weave them together. Here’s a model that shows how KM has progressed over the past 15 years. Nancy Dixon discusses three eras of knowledge management as moving from Explicit Knowledge (document management) to Experiential Knowledge (communities of practice; expertise [...]

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In PKM in a Nutshell, I linked my various posts on personal knowledge management to make the framework more coherent. My ITA colleague, Jane Hart has just released an extensive resource that correlates nicely with the PKM framework. It is called A WORKING SMARTER RESOURCE: A Practical Guide to using Social Media in Your Job [...]

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Here’s an infographic from Ross Dawson on Trend Blends to watch as we consider our common futures: I’ve noticed these trends pop up in my readings and observations, for example: Power Shifts Eastward: Clay Burell’s advice for teachers scorned: Teachers have “asked what they can do for their country,” and they do it. Daily. But [...]

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I’m continuing on my theme of capturing what we learned during our Work Literacy online workshop in 2008, before Ning pulls the plug on us. Previous posts have discussed several aspects of what we learned and I’d like to review some of the summative commentary. What questions still linger? Jason Willensky – “Will we be [...]

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As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy, I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. Thanks again to Michele Martin for writing a significant portion of this. Introduction to Social Networking Online social networks [...]

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Tony Bates made these recommendations to the University of New Brunswick, “to foster further development of knowledge-based industries in the province”: 1. Greater incorporation of ICT and other 21st century skills (e.g. independent learning, problem solving) in a wider range of programs and subject disciplines. 2. A gradual move from almost entirely face-to-face courses in [...]

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Some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. Always worth repeating: “Management is an overhead” by @EskoKilpi The Internet is an extinction-level event for the traditional firm If the (transaction) costs of exchanging value in the society at large go down drastically, the form and logic of economic and organizational entities also [...]

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In 2004 I commented on an article by Peter Levesque calling for new leadership for the information revolution. He said that communities have not been as successful as corporations in producing certain kinds of societal benefits as a result of the internet’s enabling connectivity. ”I suggest that the leaders will be found among the aggressively intelligent [...]

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Four major types of social media (SM), according to Patti Anklam are: Media SM – news, commentary & opinions Customer SM – listening to customers, responding to market needs Enterprise SM – provide the conditions for enabling knowledge & action to emerge Personal SM – learning, creating, co-creating, sharing, weaving Patti also asks, what’s the [...]

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Excellent lessons and a wealth of references are included in this paper, Changing Homeland Security: Shape Patterns, Not Programs which is applicable to a wide and sundry audience. Advice from Socrates to a man who over-planned his son’s birthday party – “ask the women”, with the following results: We held the party at Panathinaikon Stadium. [...]

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