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Notes from 2006

Tweet2006 What good are notes if you don’t review them from time to time? I reviewed my notes from 2004 as well as notes from 2005 last January, so now it’s time to review my half-baked ideas from 2006. Non scholae sed vitae discimus (We learn, not for school, but for life – Seneca, Epistulae) Curriculum [...]

Collective sense-making

TweetMore of my online sense-making is in connecting to people, not accessing information sources. For instance, I read a few journals but I have dropped several, knowing that other people in my network will find the interesting articles and let me know. I used to read many of the technology blogs, like TechCrunch and Read/Write [...]

Working smarter, daily

TweetMy blog functions as my outboard brain, a place to get half-baked ideas out in the open and work on them in public. It’s also a repository of thoughts and notes I use in my daily work. I often refer to a blog post instead of writing the same email a dozen times. However, it [...]

Sense-making through conversation

TweetOne of our clients referred me to a post by Nick Milton on another great Boston square that pulls “apart the KM world on dimensions of Knowledge Push and Knowledge Pull (which you might call “Sharing” and “seeking”), and the dimensions of Explicit and Tacit. We get 4 quadrants, which we could call Ask, Tell, [...]

Knowledge filters

Tweet This graphic is part of the Seek-Sense-Share PKM model and is based on Five forms of filtering by Tim Kastelle. Here’s a review of the five forms. Naive filtering is what too often happens in our knowledge searching. It’s like prairie-dogging, or standing up in your cubicle and asking those close to you for advice. [...]

Taking the time to cross the chasm

TweetI was asked by Ryan McClure, a regular reader of this blog, to “have a go at the fear of change by addressing it directly“. He was referring to situations where senior executives seem to be on a different plane of reality. For example: The CEO who doesn’t see the value of social networks and [...]

Networked Learning (PKM) Workshop in Toronto

Tweet Note: this workshop has been postponed until – 30 March 2012. In just over a month’s time, I’ll be facilitating another one-day workshop on Networked Learning (PKM) at the University of Toronto’s iSchool Institute on Friday, 18 November 2011. The cost for the day is $250. My consulting work this past year has shown [...]

Making sense of our world

TweetI define Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. It’s sense making + getting things done. George Siemens has made this rather succinct statement about knowledge: When I externalize something, it’s information. When someone [...]

Becoming personal knowledge managers

TweetNick Milton highlights an overview of knowledge management (KM) from Susan Camarena, CKO at the Federal Transit Authority, which includes: How do we implement KM? We already are doing it! Everyone has their own KM program! Like: Saving numbers of the “right” person to call on an old, wrinkled and well used piece of paper. Reusing a [...]

PKM Summary

Tweet As a knowledge support for myself, workshop participants and readers, I have put together my main posts on personal knowledge management as a sub-page of my Key Posts page. Since I’ve written dozens of posts on the subject and modified my approach over the years, I thought this might be helpful as a start [...]