George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce our third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. Some ideas: Post about it on your blog. MORE >>

She writes about knowledge management and personal knowledge management and blogging, some of my favorite topics. As she has been chronicling on her blog , she is near the end of writing this PhD. She also draws on her own experience of blogging to inform her research. So, why do knowledge workers use blogs? MORE >>

Here’s the video capture of my presentation at KM World last week – thanks to Maish and a new Flip Video camera for getting it done (though I had a habit of hiding from the camera!). It does this by looking at cases where those functions had broken down because of a failure to manage expertise. Matt has also reported on this. MORE >>

Since I use my blog, in part, as a personal knowledge management system and Twitter archiving is an oxymoron, I am now going to post my favorite links for the month. Web sites + blogs get 55% more visitors than sites without a blog [link] 8:19 AM Sep 1st from TweetDeck Here is the second in a new series of posts. become squared? MORE >>

That may make Twitter, like blogs, best suited for personal learning environments (PLE) in academia, so that learners can use it for several courses and connect to their non-academic networks as well. Blogs allow this asymmetry but social networks like Facebook don’t. Twitter & blogs foster broadening networks. MORE >>