Filed in Collaboration , Communities of practice. There are a whole bunch of useful concepts used by organisations to focus their community of practice and knowledge management programs. We have been working during the year with Mark Bennett, who is the steward of Rio Tintos extensive communities of practice program. MORE >>

He included this list from Davenport's Working Knowledge on why children share: You share with the friends you trust. Chris made the obvious connection to knowledge management discussions of why people do (or do not) share with one another. In the context of real need few people will withhold their knowledge. The Law of Giving. MORE >>

The route to working with knowledge liesthrough people, building relationships & trust, deep dialog andcreative abrasion. "Knowledge is embodied in people gathered in communities andnetworks. The road to knowledge is via people, conversations,connections and relationships. This is where learning products reside. MORE >>

As conversations continue to go sideways over Knowledge Management vs. E2.0 As one individual kept pressing for a definition of KM from me, I realized that the basis for the definition would fundamentally fail at “Knowledge&# — specifically within the context of the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom continuum. MORE >>

Harold Jarche, like me , is reflecting on his recent attendance at conferences: I’ve been thinking about knowledge sharing, after attending a couple of conferences in a row and heading off to another. Most presenters hold back their knowledge in order to “deliver” it just before the big official presentation. What do you think? MORE >>