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04.14.08KM should just beUPDATE - I've added some more thoughts. I couldn't help myself. There's a really interesting discussion on KM and 2.0 tools going on over at the FASTForward blog. I've managed to get myself involved and am probably preaching a little KM heresy. I personally think KM need not be an identified, explicit practice in organisations. It should just be. Now, I'm a realist. I know that many organisations don't yet operate this way. But they should. Here's my latest input to the thread. "I absolutely agree with you that anything 2.0 is not about the technology. Technology is and always has been ...
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01.22.08Who’s going to E2EF on acidlabs?Well, I didn't get a huge number of entries for the free pass to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 19 February, but those we got were pretty good and sometimes funny. I've decided that the winner is Jodie Miners. Here's her entry (submitted via Twitter): I'd love to go because I believe I'm an E2.0 specialist and would love to know more but don't have a job atm so can't afford to go. Jodie wins predominantly because she's the one person (sorry Markus, Stil and Martin) who can least afford to go and has the most motivation ...
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01.21.08Want to go to E2EF for free?Through a little serendipity, acidlabs has ended up as a partner for the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 19 February 2008. In the words of the Future Exploration Network, who are hosting the conference, it is: An intensive half-day summit giving detailed executive perspectives on how Web 2.0 technologies can create value inside organisations. Speakers include Harvard Business School's Andrew McAfee, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, Euan Semple, who implemented these approaches at the BBC, and Australia's top experts and practitioners in the field. Case studies will feature how leading Australian organisations have benefited, and identify key ...
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01.06.08And the “what is a knowledge worker” battle continues to rageI've read Matthew's response to Shawn's response to Matthew's response to Shawn's original post. Plus Dave Snowden's mind-blowing response to both Shawn and Matthew. I have to say, I still agree with Matthew. Identifying both knowledge work and workers is and remains crucial. I think Shawn's false dichotomy argument is spurious; he seems to want to have a situation where those that identify as knowledge workers in whatever way are framing themselves as some form of elite with a non-knowledge worker underclass. It's simply not the case. Especially given Shawn's argument about the ubiquity of knowledge work, there is only us. If ...
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12.28.07Knowledge worker - NOT a redundant termShawn Callahan of Anecdote argues that the need for the term knowledge worker is redundant now that technology is ubiquitous in the developed world and that almost every worker trades in knowledge of some sort. He sees its use as a way to discriminate between identified knowledge workers and those whose roles are not traditionally viewed this way: It's an dark undercurrent and tacitly becomes a basis for discrimination. "Our salespeople are knowledge workers but our gas fitters are not." I suspect this feeling of superiority comes from the erroneous data-information-knowledge model where knowledge (and even more ridiculously, wisdom) sits ...
