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Knowledge Innovation

David Snowden Keynote Tags, Categories and Knowledge Sharing @ KMWorld

November 9, 2007

The crowd is assembling to listen to Dave Snowden (A bio here on David Gurteen’s site) on tags and categories. I have a feeling this will be a provocative and thought provoking session. I had the pleasure of being at a bloggers dinner last night organized by Jay Cross which brought two conferences together. A [...]

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Use the Tools First: Then Talk to Me.

November 7, 2007

Wednesday morning at KMWorld 2007. I’m finding it hard to focus this am. I just walked out of one session where the presenter made a joke about Facebook. I checked; I’m fairly sure he’s not on it. That’s a big problem that exists here. You cannot talk about the impact of wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, [...]

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Richard McDermott Tragedy of the Knowledge Commons @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

Richard McDermott designing knowledge organizations. Will talk about the Knowledge Commons. I’ve record it. This didn’t do a lot for me. I’ve added my new thoughts at the end of the piece. Starts sharing a story about clients and nine questions to think about. I will call it an oil company. First it is an [...]

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Dave Pollard on Social Tools @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

I’ve just met David Gurteen and Jon Husband… put a smile immediately on my face. Now Dave Pollard is up and i”m a little behind. He’s covering a list of social apps. It’s a good list. It’s interesting to feel the crowd response for which most of this seems foreign. The room is the fullest [...]

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David Gurteen – Shares the Stories of Others @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

David Gurteen, How do we make People do Things? David is fundamentally about creating face to face environments where for dialogue. Sometimes when you hear someone for the first time you immediately identify with them. Let’s just say David is very easy to listen to. He’s clearly open and it’s no wonder he’s been so [...]

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Hubert Saint-Onge on Collaboration @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

Fairly full group in this room now for Hubert Saint Onge’s disucssion on Collaborative Networks and the New Enterprise. 1) explore why the capacity for collaboration is vital to the new enterprise? 2) Define guiding principles for developing collaborative networks. 3) Review the leadership challenges inherent to effective collaboration 4) Identify an approach for selection [...]

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Verna Allee Understanding the Value in Networks @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

Organizations as Value Networks. Verna makes an excellent set of points on how to look at networks and the intangible flow within them. Verna starts with the following quote and how networks will focus our efforts. The corporation as we know it, which is 120 years old is unlikely to survive the next 25 years. [...]

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Dave Snowden – Small Pieces – Fragmented Narratives @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

David Snowden of Cognitive Edge open the first session in the Interactive Thought-Leaders track at KMW07. Title of his session is “The Dynamics of Strategic KM. This track is supposed to enable a set of discussions. He was formerly with IBM. He pioneered the use of Narrative. He focuses on sense-making. “A Leaders Framework for [...]

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James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds @ KMWorld

November 6, 2007

I’m looking forward to the opening session here. James Surowiecki who’s book Wisdom of Crowds I really enjoyed is the opening speaker. Hope to hear more stories on why “all of us” are smarter than anyone of us! No slides he’s now center stage presenting without notes. Starts with a story from the book about [...]

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5.17 Five+ Years Blogging

November 5, 2007

I’m an incredibly lucky guy. My life changed because I blog and when I work to engage in conversation. After 5.17+ years of blogging it should be easy to write this post. Then writing has never come easy for me. Still, when my blog buddies Jim McGee (6) and then Ross Mayfield (5) and now [...]

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Twitter – Water-Cooler – Opportunistic Collaboration.

November 5, 2007

One of the sessions I got the most out of at the Foresight Unconference over the weekend was Eugene Kim‘s; topic “future of collaboration”. I took away some learnings for Twitter. It began easily enough with a question. “What’s your favorite collaboration tool?” The answers ranged from telephone, to wikipedia, IM, humility, open space, internet, [...]

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MyBlogLog – Adding to the Conversation

October 25, 2007

MyBlogLog. Many moons ago I first saw this widget on a few other sites. I wasn’t sure I wanted to leave my face and my name (I now use my name almost everywhere transparently) on their sites. I also wasn’t sure if I’d end up mistakenly on a site that I wouldn’t want my name [...]

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Conversations on the Future of the Corporation

October 18, 2007

Dave Pollard asks can the Corporation Survive? Then links to an upcoming conference Future of the Corporation. He notes that the conference is proposing the redesign of corporations according to six principles. Dave’s not sure they will work although is prepared to listen. Still this got me thinking. Any time I get to thinking about [...]

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Dell Hell – Gains a New Meaning

October 18, 2007

There is new meaning in Dell Hell. Now its a note: Hi Tom, See this blog post…. Love Michael. Jeff Jarvis reports on the end of Dell Hell (video) and how they have come full circle. The para below is the most interesting to me. Dell Learns to Listen “These conversations are going to occur [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – Marketing Leadership

October 16, 2007

Jim McGee writes an excellent post on Enterprise2.0 and The Problem of Emergence. He closes his post with a comment about messiness and the need to learn as we go. That’s why in my view the explosion of social media content is creating an opportunity for Marketers to bring the outside-in and help to reinvent [...]

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