Wednesday, May 14, 2003

KM Blog Links. Jim outdoes himself in keeping track of these things: Weblogs and knowledge management. Another stream of recent posts has focused on weblogs as a tool for knowledge management both to capture and share knowledge. They include a mix of posts focusing on individual knowledge workers and on knowledge workers within organizations. [via McGee's Musings] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] The bible so far! 8:09:56 PM    comment []

The Other 80%. Jay Cross has posted a whitepaper on Informal Learning - the other 80%, in support of Friday's eLearning Forum event.  Jay points out that learning is fundamentally social and traditional systems fail to support informal learning. Informal learning takes place within social networks as an outcome of conversation. [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] This is a fabulous resource that is worthy of printing and reading carefully. I am convinced that we are at the verge of a revolution in learning where Social experience will overthrow the sage on the stage model. 8:08:17 PM    comment []

A Dialogue on Evolution, Plumbing, and Other Subjects. The Thirteen-Year-Old: I'm depressed... Me: Why?... The Thirteen-Year-Old: I'm a teenager. It's expected of me. Besides, our president is a real idiot. Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are now in the hands of real terrorists. And the world is full of poverty and hunger and war and terror...[much more material] [Semi-Daily Journal] An very nice dialog revealing that no matter what the intellectual stature of any of our leaders, we and the world are much, much better off today than at any other time in history. An nice perspective revealing that in the main our differences are much smaller and potentially more easily solved than at most other times. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog] Please don't skip the comments that follow - truly hilarious 6:26:23 PM    comment []