News rivers were a brilliant idea in the first place. Perhaps, now that at least one high-profile publisher has embraced them, the rest might follow. But first, some history, in the best chronological order I can muster —. Sometime way back there, Dave Winer created rivers of news for the NY Times and the BBC ( NYTimesriver.com and BBCriver.com ). MORE >>

When we put CalmAlpha together back in January I was somewhat shamed by Joseph Pelrine talking about his use of ABIDE, something that I developed as a pairing for ASHEN the best part of a decade ago, but then left it to go into decline. But I get ahead of myself, I should explain what. Knowledge Management Reflections MORE >>

Learning in the workplace is not just about taking courses or other training workshops to acquire new skills and knowledge, but is also about. keeping up to date with what is happening outside the organisation – in your industry or profession. solving ad hoc learning and performance problems – as you do your jobs. Social learning MORE >>

In The Paradox of Performance Pay , Allan Hawke shows how it has clearly led to decreases in organizational performance. It’s wrong to focus only on individuals or groups, because most opportunities for improvement involve systems, processes and technology. Performance ratings are nothing more than a lottery, Deming said in 1984. MORE >>

As social media becomes more strategic to the way organizations operate, does this mean it’s time to move the function to the C-suite? Does centralizing make sense, or should responsibility for it be spread across the business MORE >>