Are you leading an organisation in Melbourne? Looking for a good, fun team-building event? How well do you know Melbourne? Try the AcKnowledge Urban Challenge! What is it? The AcKnowledge […]
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A Tale of Two Cafés
David Gurteen has recently posted an article comparing his Knowledge Café concept and World Café, which are similar processes, but with “some subtle but significant differences”. As I have been doing […]
Read moreArt of Conversation – article edition
Further to previous posts here on the transformative power of conversation – the Ignite presentation at KMLF, and the trampoline presentation – I have now also written an article on the topic, […]
Read moreCommunities and collaboration
We know all about explicit knowledge – it is visible and tactile, and has been recorded in libraries since Sumerian times. Tacit knowledge, however, is somewhat harder to tie down. […]
Read moreMaking Collaboration Happen
I presented on this topic at Ark Group’s Collaboration Site Visits event in Sydney on 8 September. The Slide Pack is now available on SlideShare here. This was a half-day workshop, […]
Read moreThe theory and practice of communities
Without clear thinking, valuable work may grind to a halt The following is the introduction to an article that I wrote, published in the November/December KM Review. Despite everything that the modern […]
Read morePractice makes perfect
I wrote earlier this year about “Practice, Communities and Technology“. This post stressed the importance of the “practice”: For a CoP to be successful, the community must become part of […]
Read moreThe power of openness
How An Unknown Artist’s Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community – another story about the power of sharing, and social media: The Fail Whale. This […]
Read morePractice, Communities and Technology
Why do Communities of Practice sometimes fail? In my experience, one common failure is just throwing technology at a problem. I have no problem with wikis and other technology – […]
Read moreLooking to the Future
KMLF member Bill Hall has volunteered to help organise a knowledge café as part of a world-wide set of meetings being held in November, coordinated by the Association of Knowledge […]
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