All Life Is Problem Solving

The year 2007 ended with a very interesting take on KM 2.0 by one of my former correspondents, Dave Pollard (See for example 1, 2, 3). Dave, who is given to emphasizing the social networking aspects of things provides this definition of KM:
 

“In a recent post where I waxed rhapsodic about how the best approach […]

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From the beginning of KM there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics and measurement. In particular, there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics of KM impact. This lack of focus is in line with a certain anti-scientific orientation that has appeared in KM associated with the philosophies of post-modernism and social constructivism. It is also […]

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In a recent article in Knowledge Management Research and Practice, I suggested that the problem of lack of agreement on what KM is, suggests four possibilities:

1. People can be doing KM and calling it KM;
2. People can be doing KM and calling it something else;
3. People can be doing non-KM and calling […]

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According to many, KM 2.0 is introducing social media tools to improve connectivity, resulting in building relationships and trust, and then resulting in better communications and knowledge transfer. This is a simple theory. But it is at the heart of the claim that social computing tools will provide more success in knowledge sharing than previous […]

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Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight, (J. W. M. Turner, 1835)
Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 2)

The Exchange: KM Failure or Conceptual Confusion?
The thread running through my commentary in Parts 1 and 2 is the idea that Dave’s blog and his position that KM should be re-invented as Social Network […]

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The Fifth Plague of Egypt (J. W. M. Turner, 1800)

I’d like to thank Olaf Brugman and Jack Vinson for their comments on my blog post about Knowledge Management and Strategy. I am very interested in the parallel between the view of The New Knowledge Management (TNKM) and Rudolf Steiner’s work of 1919, […]

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Owentsia Hunt Ball — Chicago (1904)

Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 1)
KM, Social Network Management (SNM) and Conceptual Drift
You then went on:
“Four important unanswered questions:
1. What role can Social Network Enablement and social software play in enhancing individual and organizational learning?”
Social network enablement and social software […]

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