Yesterday, during my presentation on personal knowledge management to IBM BlueIQ I was asked about the role of blogging in my own sense-making processes. This strikes me as the core of collaborative knowledge work. The activity of reading, writing and perhaps commenting helps to internalize some of the knowledge. MORE >>

It was part of the Taylorist, industrial model that also compartmentalized work and ensured that only managers were allowed to make decisions. Supporting informal learning at work is not as clear-cut as something like ISD. We have many methods and frameworks that can better inform us how to design work systems. MORE >>

I have been writing about personal knowledge management on this blog since 2004. The more and better we share our knowledge, the more resilient become our networks. With each workshop I see people whose eyes are opened to the possibilities of sharing, cooperating, and co-creating knowledge. would now like to ask for help. MORE >>

We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically. Communities and Networks Knowledge Management Corporate Libraries Talent Management come together to form a cohesive picture. MORE >>

The main benefits for networked organizations do not lie in the outcome from teams, but in individual knowledge acquisition, in the ability to connect with the right people and to access the right information at the right time. The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces. MORE >>