My own focus is using Twitter as another tool/process in personal knowledge management. I’ve integrated Twitter into my sense-making process with Friday’s Finds. Tags: Learning Technology I’m presenting on Twitter and its uses for education and learning later today, as I noted in my last post. MORE >>

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples.       One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the  Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. Encourages social content creation from network. Snap, Tag, and Share. MORE >>

I’ve been wrestling with a thought lately – if organizations are complex systems, and complex systems are continuously self-organizing, then why do we believe formal processes make these complex systems more efficient? This is not the first paragraph to question process improvement, this is not some original Eureka moment.  MORE >>

Here are some examples: Use blogs to replace group e-mails so that information can be updated on a given subject/topic. Work with management to fund and develop better tools and processes for workers. If your LMS is not helping you with these processes then it’s time to find a better platform.  Does your LMS do this? MORE >>

Consultants Howard Smith and Peter Fingar shot back a month later with a paperback retort entitled  IT Doesn’t Matter – Business Processes Do. In 120 pages, Smith and Fingar skewer Carr, show why IT will matter more than ever, and explain how business process management creates riches. Design The Future The process of Innovation MORE >>