Aggregate Understand Connect

I’ve changed one word, but doesn’t it make more sense like this?
As I talk about PKM here or with this graphic and discussion, “understand” is more descriptive of the human sense-making activities than “filter” is. Perhaps I should go back and change these posts to reflect what we are actually doing – understanding as part [...]

Learning to work anew

My Net Work Learning presentation on Slideshare has garnered a fair number of views in the past two weeks and I’m assuming there’s an interest in the themes presented. Slides alone are rather limited in getting a message across, so I’ve created a slide show with audio that covers most of the first part of [...]

Learning is (still) conversation

The folks at Scotland’s GoodPractice for leaders & managers have a white paper on How Managers Learn, with some interesting, but not surprising, results. They conducted a survey to find out more about informal learning in the workplace, inspired by Jay Cross, who has shown that “informal learning plays an important part in the learning [...]

Toonlet: ABC Learning

Here’s a different way to get your message across, with Toonlet.
ABC: anything but courses

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From training to learning

I came across the article From Training to Learning by Brigitte Jordan via two sources yesterday. It was written c. 1997 based on ” … a common discourse, carried on for the last several years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) and the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).”
In a [...]

Building common ground

The focus of this blog is on learning and working on the web and how work and learning are becoming one in a digitally interconnected world. I believe there is a critical need for new organizational frameworks, such as wirearchy, and a shift from learning as training & schooling to a more agile approach. Evidence [...]

PKM in 2010

Personal Knowledge Management
Updated 5 Feb 2010: changed “Filter” to “Understand”
[This post is a continuation of Sense-making with PKM (March, 2009)]
Personal = according to one’s abilities, interests and motivation (not directed by external forces)
Knowledge = the capacity for effective action (know how)
Management = how to get things done
What is PKM?
PKM is an individual, disciplined process by [...]

PKM: aggregate, filter, connect

Knowledge Squared equals Power Squared, says Craig Thomler:
However the knowledge hoarding model begins to fail when it becomes cheap and easy to share and when the knowledge required to complete a task exceeds an individual’s capability to learn in the time available.
This has been reflected in a longitudinal study of knowledge workers that Robert Kelley [...]

Connect, aggregate, filter; then train

The primary role of the “training” department [or whatever it becomes] for any knowledge-based business is to Connect & Communicate. As workers co-develop emergent processes they need to be supported through updated information, tools and processes to do their work. This model looks at knowledge flows inside the organization:

Looking at knowledge flows outside the organization, [...]

Work is learning, learning work

My Twitter bio reads, “Work is learning, learning work – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know [apologies to Keats]. That’s pretty much what I believe will be a necessity for the post-industrial and post-information era that we are beginning to enter. Some call it the knowledge economy or [...]

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