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KM Question of the Week

Q: What communities and blogs exist for learning professionals?

A: I linked to three e-learning thought leaders in a previous post. Mohamed Amine Chatti also blogs on learning.

I asked my HP learning & development colleague, Celia Bohle, for her suggestions. Here is her response. "There are many communities in the learning space:

• My favorite one is Elliott Masie's Learning Consortium. He does an excellent job in connecting Learning Professionals across the globe.
• Another organization you may want to join is ASTD (American Society for Training & Development).
• Facebook is also great way of connecting to Learning Professionals and to join Learning Communities.

Here is my list of favorite Learning Blogs:

1. Corporate eLearning Development
2. Informal Learning Blog
3. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day
4. The Bamboo Project Blog
5. Clive on Learning
6. Design of Knowledge
7. eLearning Weekly
8. eLearning Technology

You can tell that I do have a preference for Learning 2.0 and technology-related topics."

Robert Swanwick, who posed the original question, also provided a resource. "I found a site called feedeachother that allows you to build an aggregated channel of blogs and then share it with others. Here is the one that I created for e-learning: Robert Swanwick's Channel - e-learning"

KM Blog of the Week

In a previous post, I discussed Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). There have been several related posts since then:

• KM 0.0 - Simply Enabling Trusted Context-Rich Conversations Among Communities That Care by Dave Pollard: KM 1.0 is all about content and collection; KM 0.0 (PKM) is all about context and connection. At the request of several readers, I've pulled this all together in the table above into a framework for what some have called KM 2.0, but which I prefer to call KM 0.0, because it's getting back to the roots of why and how people share what they know. It could also be called PKM - Personal Knowledge Management - because it's about self-managed content and peer-to-peer connectivity.
• Personal Information Management or Personal Knowledge Management? by Bill Brantley: I wonder if personal information management and personal knowledge management are essentially the same. I don't believe so and that we should make this distinction clear.
• Personal Information Management by Jack Vinson: I received a review copy of Personal Information Management edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan. It's a topic in which I have a great interest, as my readers know. And going into a new job, this gives me the opportunity to think about which of my regular tools are critical to me.
• Knowledge work framework (PKM + tasks) by Lilia Efimova: Conversations are in the middle of the framework. The lower sector represents the domain of relations.The top sector represents the domain of developing ideas.
• Organizing In Advance of the Info-Glut by Guy W. Wallace: I use two key strategies/tactics to keep above the pile of data/info that reaches me, or that I reach out to acquire: 1) Handling emails as they come in and 2) Filing paper and electronic content.
• Personal Knowledge Management by Doug Cornelius: To create a personal knowledge base, we need a strategy for transforming the random bits of information and transform it into a usable system. It is important for others in the attorney's network and for the firm to be able to harvest the individual's personal knowledge management systems. Things like shared folders in the document management system, blogs and wikis provide simple and easy to use tools to collect information that can be harvested by others.

Here are three links to older articles on the subject:

• Personal Knowledge Management: Educational Framework for Global Business by Paul A. Dorsey
• Personal, anticipated information need by Harry Bruce
• Personal Knowledge Management: Who, What, Why, When, Where, How? By Jason Frand and Carol Hixon

KM Link of the Week

In a previous post, the 2007 KMWorld Promise and Reality Award nominees were announced. 2007 KMWorld Awards Nomination Writeups for all nominees are now available.

The 2007 KMWorld Promise and Reality Award Winners were announced at KMWorld.

• Connotate won the Reality Award.
• The United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (UNAKRT/ECCC) won the Reality Award.

KM Book of the Week

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Patrick Lambe posted to the actKM Discussion List: "Gawande is a surgeon, an extremely insightful writer about his craft, very interested in how surgeons acquire and use their knowledge and is completely unencumbered by KM theory. Perhaps because of that, he illuminates basic human activities around knowledge in a very important way for KM. There's also a good video lecture of him introducing some of the main themes of his book."

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I Diligence
• On Washing Hands
• The MoP-Up
• Casualties of War
• Part II Doing Right
• Naked
• What Doctors Owe
• Piecework
• The Doctors of the Death Chamber
• On Fighting
• Part III Ingenuity
• The Score
• The Bell Curve
• For Performance
• Afterword: Suggestions for Becoming a Positive Deviant

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