Expertise is about experience and knowledge, and experience and knowledge are rather difficult to stuff into a database.
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Expertise is about experience and knowledge, and experience and knowledge are rather difficult to stuff into a database.
There are a couple threads relating to experts and expertise running, and I have been wanting to mention them. One is a query from David Weinberger in KMWorld, and another is a project by Patrick Lambe and Matt Moore.
Andrew McAfee applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.
Luis Suarez has a report on Bob Buckman's discussion from the APQC conference. I particularly liked this tidbit on knowledge-is-power: "Don’t be afraid to share what you know, because you know it better than anyone else!"
The regular column in KMWorld from David Weinberger this month is "Experts who don't play the Wikipedia game."
Shawn Callahan has discovered "A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge" via a pamphlet from Demos on "The Received Wisdom: Opening up expert advice."
Clay Shirky has written another piece on expertise that delves into some interesting nuances about expertise that I enjoy.
Patrick Lambe points to "Negative Knowledge, Expertise and Organisations" by Jaana Parviainen and Marja Eriksson of University of Tampere, Finland.
Martin Dugage at Mopsos took away "Three questions from Richard McDermott" at a recent conference. He provides his answers, and I figured I'd could take a crack at them too. 1: Is more knowledge always better? 2: Is more connectivity better? 3:How do we deepen our expertise?