An effective suite of enterprise social tools can help organizations share knowledge, collaborate, and cooperate – connecting the work being done with the identification of new opportunities and ideas. People will freely share their knowledge if they remain in control of it. Knowledge is a very personal thing. MORE >>

But what is most interesting to me is the profound change in the way we conceptualize knowledge and the implications of that conceptualization for how we do our work as knowledge professionals. These are not trivial issues because how we conceptualize knowledge greatly impacts the way we design our KM systems and strategies. MORE >>

As with knowledge artisans , many learners now own their knowledge-sharing networks. Narration is turning one’s tacit knowledge — what you know — into explicit knowledge — what you can share. Just adding finished reports to a knowledge base does not help others understand how that report was developed. MORE >>

I'm still working on this idea, but both Michael Hanley and Karyn Romeis have blogged about knowledge recently so I decided to post what I currently am grappling with. Each type of knowledge was manifested, accessed, created, and valued differently at the individual, group, and organizational level. 3) Who owns the knowledge? MORE >>

Patrick DiDomenico pointed to a NY Times article, A Push to Redefine Knowledge at Wikipedia , with the admonition "OK KM bloggers, do your thing." And that, in turn, invites an entirely new debate about what constitutes knowledge in different parts of the world and how a Western institution like Wikipedia can capitalize on it. MORE >>