http://www.jarche.com Learning & Working on the Web Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:50:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The term personal knowledge management (PKM) isn't about management in a business sense but rather how we can manage to make sense of information and experience in our electronic surround. Personal - according to one’s abilities, interests & motivation (not directed by external forces). Knowledge - connecting information to experience (know what, ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/sense-making/ I will be presenting two 1/2 day workshops on Thursday, 25 March in Miramichi, NB. The event is sponsored by Silicon East and attendance is (almost) free. There is a $10 fee to cover refreshments. Please pass this on to people in the area who might need an introduction to social ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/social-media-workshops/ Jane Hart has an excellent resource on Case Studies for Social Media & Learning in the Workplace that she keeps up to date. I've looked at it many times and thought that it might be easier to see the big picture as a matrix, which I've created as a Google ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/social-media-workplace-performance-matrix/ Some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. @oscarberg "Most enterprise social software platforms actually separate internal communication from external communication while email & phone doesn't." via @timkastelle Good #km post - Informal Information Management and Knowledge Management Are Not the Same Thing by @johnt My thinking is ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/communities-communication-construction-of-knowledge/ If you take the cynefin approach for working in complex environments you first Probe then Sense and then Respond in order to develop emergent practices. Backward-looking good or best practices are inadequate for changing complex environments. Constant probes of the environment are necessary to see what ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/pilots-or-beta/ This list is a result of a series of tweets, initiated by Janet Clarey who referred to a Top 50 list of educational technology blogs. Shortly after that, Maria Anderson suggested that I create a list for workplace learning. I don't like creating "Top 50" lists so here are my ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/favourite-workplace-learning-blogs/ Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, or, in other words, digital networks enable multiple connections, so organizational communications are no longer just vertical. Somebody else, outside the hierarchy, is only one click away, and perhaps easier to deal with and a better source of information and knowledge. This is becoming obvious in the ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/pkm-a-node-in-the-learning-network/ Some of the interesting things I learned on Twitter this week: Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century via @crazyquote Innovation via @timkastelle Innovation = learning x diverse connections I disagree with the argument that innovation is the child of desperation. I wish it was so, because ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/learning-is-what-we-will-do-for-a-living/ Paul makes an excellent comment to my article on social learning in the enterprise that Jon Husband kindly posted for me on the FASTForward Blog: I see the critical aspect to social learning to be ‘diffusion’. Knowledge ‘flows’ at specific speeds, and complex, technical details have high viscosity. Some ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/diffusion-of-social-learning/ The value of social networks for learning is that they help create trust paths to share ideas, advice and feelings between people who care. Jane Hart has developed five categories for social learning: IOL – Intra-Organizational Learning – keeping the organization up to date and up to speed on strategic ... http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/interdependent-learning/