Again, the constraint was C-words relevant to conversations about knowledge. Tags: FASTforward'09 knowledge work Paula Thornton , my friend and co-blogger here at FASTforward , tweeted the following this morning. which reminded me of a little constrained exercise I did back in February. That exercise started with this tweet. MORE >>

In knowledge work (2004) I commented on how Lilia Efimova described the main uses of blogs for knowledge work: personal knowledge repositories, learning journals, or networking instruments. Many companies are tryng to find ways to motivate their knowledge workers. Tags: Wirearchy Work MORE >>

While they often produce excellent work and contribute to the overall market reputation of their parent organizations, they have been less successful at leveraging the experience of their parents or at feeding their insights back into their organizations. Thought leadership presents a situation where working backwards isn’t helpful. MORE >>

Work Design - From Industrial to Networked Age        (previously, Part I and the first half of Part II ). The vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today's workplace. At the heart of the issue is the way work is designed and an organization develops its structure.  MORE >>

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’  through every stage of knowledge work. Tags: design social In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going.  But if you build it, they may not come. Networks take nurturing.  MORE >>