If you have ever hankered to read a “real life&# story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. Here is a brief glimpse of the orientations: Meetings – in person or online gatherings with an agenda (i.e. monthly topic calls). MORE >>

Last week, I asked my readers to share their best advice for using a blog for personal branding and job searching. So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding. Sacha Chua , another poster child for how blogging can support personal branding, offers additional advice in her presentation, Networking 2.0: MORE >>

PKM consists of practical methods for making sense of the increasing digital information flows around us. There is no procedural method to go from data to wisdom. On this Stephen Downes and I agree; though he thinks I adhere to the DIKW model. People use their knowledge to make sense of data and information. Data + Knowledge = Information. MORE >>

Knowledge-at-work Personal thoughts about learning, community and social affordances for knowledge creation « When learning and knowledge collide | Main | Knowledge managers » November 05, 2006 KM practices Which KM practices are the most important in your opinion? But, none of that is actually KM. " Thank you! MORE >>

Tweet I know that there are no “best practices&# in new hire development, also known as onboarding, as each organization is unique and often rather complex. However, there are some practices that could make onboarding better in certain contexts. Personal, dedicated coaching for each new hire (Capital One, Nokia). MORE >>