Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine section had a feature on "best places to work" and many smaller articles on the modern workplace. I thought a few of these had bearing on knowledge workers.
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Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine section had a feature on "best places to work" and many smaller articles on the modern workplace. I thought a few of these had bearing on knowledge workers.
Besides finding some extra lint in there, why do people get into navel gazing? When does it help? When not? Some interesting thoughts on the topic from Megan and Euan in Shift episode 35.
If you really want this "social media thing" to be a way of working, then each person needs to pick up the tools and figure out how the tools make sense for THEM. Sure, you can do training, and introductions, and have the early adopters show others how they use the software. In the end, though, people have to choose to switch because it makes sense for them.
Why don't people speak up and ask questions? Is it the standard list of concerns around why people lurk? Euan Semple suggests there is something else going on in the sociology of people: they are afraid to speak their mind.
Patrick Lambe has What is knowledge sharing (and this from February) and Why do we share knowledge, based on a recent discussion. And this leads to Euan Semple and Sharon Richardson's discussion of one element of knowledge sharing: humor and personality.
Here are some entertaining comments about knowledge management from today's feeds from Euan Semple and David Weinberger.
Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
Last week Euan Semple said that KM is hogwash. This is an ongong discussion in the KM community and the larger community of skeptics.