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Well, we’ve finally arrived at 2008, certainly the most active year thus far in the KM 2.0 boom. I don’t know whether this is the Year of KM 2.0, since perhaps we’re still not at the peak of debate and discussion over the idea. But 2008 has certainly increased the frequency and intensity of discussion […]

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4) Another important point made by Dave in the podcast is that those looking to create a knowledge sharing culture are thinking about knowledge sharing from the wrong perspective. The problem is not to create such a culture, but rather to increase the connectivity of people, whereupon they will naturally share because the increased connectivity […]

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The next major contribution to the KM 2.0 discussion comes in an interview of Dave Snowden by Jon Husband entitled “The Impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management.” The interview was done on October 15, 2007, and then produced and distributed as a podcast. This podcast was followed by many reactions in […]

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The over-riding problem with shifting from a “KM” orientation to a “knowledge sharing” one, is that the words don’t mean the same thing, and focusing on one or the other may well lead to different policies, programs, and interventions. Put another way, since “Knowledge Sharing” and Knowledge Management are not the same thing, it’s possible […]

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I think that most, if not all, current knowledge sharing programs do not distinguish those knowledge claims that are just information, from those knowledge claims that are knowledge, because they don’t know how to do so. And I also think that the consequence of this is that most, if not all, current knowledge sharing programs, […]

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IBM was not the first large organization to decide that “knowledge sharing” is an easier sell than “KM.” The World Bank preceded IBM in this move by more than a decade, long before the advent of Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0. The Bank decided to use”knowledge sharing” as the orienting idea in their knowledge-related program […]

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IBM has placed Knowledge Sharing in the news again, by announcing that it has “philosophically repositioned” its Knowledge Management practice around Knowledge Sharing. According to IBM’s Chris Cooper, “Management suggests control: control of process and control of environment. The sharing tag is quite important to us.” Of course, “Management” suggests control, these days, only to […]

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Lascaux Horse One of the most popular techniques identified with Knowledge Management is storytelling. Led by Steve Denning, Dave Snowden, Katalina Groh, Larry Prusak, John Seely Brown, and Seth Weaver Kahan, storytelling has become a vibrant movement within KM with a life of its own. Two new books, due out in June 2004, by Denning, […]

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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 […]

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