Tapping into Tribes: a 2.0 challenge for knowledge management
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age.
While his story looks to his concept of “tribes” from a marketing point-of-view we think this is also relevant for nurturing knowledge management behavior (see the invitation for discussion at the end). Continue reading “Tapping into Tribes: a 2.0 challenge for knowledge management” »
Five laws to keep your sanity in this information age
The Internet is big and increases exponentially every day. The amount of information that is potentially (very) interesting to you does so as well. How do you keep up? This article gives you the five basic laws of survival in the modern day information age.
In our social media training sessions we often ask participants whether they are subscribed to a daily newspaper and if so, whether they read it from front to back. Many people still do this offline, but on the Internet, this is no longer possible. You have probably seen those YouTube videos citing enormous figures of the daily information produced by the Internet population. It vastly exceeds what any person can process.
One of the things we do at weknowmore.org is to train people how to deal with that waterfall of information. As the web became more social, people all over the world were empowered to create and curate content and also reach an extensive audience. As an information consumer there’s just so much more to choose from nowadays!
So how do you surf these waves? How do you find the stuff that interests you? How do you sift through all that is not? The answer is actually rather simple: continue doing what you’ve always done but do it harder, better, faster, stronger. Continue reading “Five laws to keep your sanity in this information age” »
Framework to Measure Knowledge Management Behavior in Non-Profits
We gradually publish results of our research towards the human factor in knowledge management for development. In this post we introduce the knowledge management framework we used to come to the specific questions we used in our research.
Introduction
There are many books written on knowledge management and the authors have come up with an enormous amount of knowledge management frameworks [Browse through examples here]. Some are deceptively simple, others extremely difficult to grasp. The one we find most useful is the very practical model of Collison and Parcell taken from their great book “Learning to Fly”. Continue reading “Framework to Measure Knowledge Management Behavior in Non-Profits” »
The Collective Learning Ability of Humanity
In under 18 minutes David Christian summarizes the entire history of the universe and everything that exists today. He elaborates the role of language in the collective learning of humanity; and explains why that’s what makes us different. A very insightful talk that provides an elaborate historical foundation to think about when contextualizing learning and knowledge management. Continue reading “The Collective Learning Ability of Humanity” »
600 Tips and Links for Using Social Media for Education and Learning
We curate content ourselves and know what a time-consuming job it is, so we have great respect for others that curate content too! This post is filled with content curation kings! It is a collection of some of the best and biggest collections of social media for education and learning.
Nobody can introduce these posts better than the person that collected them, so we have left the introduction of the posts up to them. We strongly recommend you visiting the great websites where these posts can be found, since there is much more interesting content to discover on them! Continue reading “600 Tips and Links for Using Social Media for Education and Learning” »
Social Media for Alumni Relations and Engagement
An alumnus (pl. alumni) is “a graduate of a school, college, or university.” An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor or inmate as well as a former student.
Social media provide effective ways and opportunities for alumni networks to strengthen the bonds between the alumni; and between the alumni and former institution, sporting club, college, university, and soforth.
We have collected some good articles on how to use social media and some of the main networks to engage alumni. They can provide inspiration for your own alumni network! Continue reading “Social Media for Alumni Relations and Engagement” »
Personality and Knowledge Management Behavior
In this post we focus on the Big Five Theory of Personality. This model is considered to be the most comprehensive empirical or data-driven inquiry into personality in the Western hemisphere.
Introduction
The Big Five Model of Personality consists of a cluster of more specific traits that correlate together. Continue reading “Personality and Knowledge Management Behavior” »
All Research Should be Open! Join the Fight for Open Access!
weknowmore.org adopts the ‘open research’ ideology, which results into an open access policy.
Open research is research conducted in the spirit of free and open source software. The central theme of open research is to make clear accounts of the methodology, along with data and results extracted therefrom, freely available via the internet.
This permits a massively distributed collaboration.
If the research is scientific in nature it is frequently referred to as open science. Continue reading “All Research Should be Open! Join the Fight for Open Access!” »
Non-Profit Social Media Benchmark Study 2011
The Nonprofit Technology Network and M+R Strategic Services just published the “2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study”.
They have also released the infographic below. The report consists of more information, this is the only the social media part of it. To see the full-length version of the infographic, click here to get a copy of the research.
This report is very insightful! It provides hard numbers to compare your nonprofit to. Continue reading “Non-Profit Social Media Benchmark Study 2011” »
[Open Access] The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)
As part of our endorsement and awareness-raising for open-access research, we will share free knowledge management journals on our website. First up: the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management.
The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) publishes research on topics relevant to the study, implementation and management of knowledge management and intellectual capital and other related fields of study.
The journal contributes to the development of both theory and practice in the field of knowledge management. The journal accepts academically robust papers, topical articles, communications, book reviews and case studies that contribute to the area of research in, and practice of knowledge management. All papers a double blind reviewed.
There is a lot of great content in the different editions of this journal. To give you an idea on what kind of articles are published we’ve shared a selection below.
But be sure to check out the complete journal here. Continue reading “[Open Access] The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)” »
