One of the original rallying cries behind knowledge management was, "If we only knew what we know."* 20 years ago that got hijacked into building knowledge bases, which didn't answer this cry. And now we have KM 2.0, and if it is still all about the technology, it still won't answer the cry. Here's a current media example of the inevitable result. MORE >>

In February 2010 three Google executives were convicted of a privacy violation in an Italian court and received suspended prison sentences. The reason for the trial and conviction: they allowed people to upload a video to Google Video showing someone being bullied. It was two hours before the video was removed following complaints. The list goes on. MORE >>

Here are more 2010 predictions. Forrester has issued a report, Collaboration Needs Will Fuel A Smartphone Surge , by Ted Schadler with Matthew Brown, Brownlee Thomas, Michele Pelino, and Peter Schmidt, with the subtitle: The Surge Can Be Funded Through A Bring-Your-Own Smartphone Strategy.   I appreciate receiving a review copy. know I do. MORE >>

As promised earlier , here is my reflection of the keynote I did at the Instructional Technology Council’s annual gathering on February 22nd. The topic was “Online Facilitation: 14 years on. What have we learned and what do we need to learn.&#. As usual, I decided to try something new. First: Reflection. There was a wealth! MORE >>

Stan Garfield posted an interesting Communities Manifesto that describes 10 principles of communities and goes some way toward differentiating between teams and communities. This is all based on his direct experience in the area. The main space for discussion has been the SIKM Leaders group that Stan created several years ago. MORE >>