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Librarians as Knowledge Managers
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It is about becoming a KM practitioner. Integrated and Aggregated Teaching, Training, Theory, practice, service, and research prospects. Areas of Interest: Activity (capture, index, disseminate, and utilize); Background knowledge (tacit, explicit, and cor
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Sharing Tacit Knowledge: A Case Study in the Australian Film Industry
Tacit Knowledge“Explicit” or codified knowledge refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, “tacit” knowledge has a personal quality, which makes it hard to formalize and communicate. Tacit kno...
Knowledge Management of Local / Indigenous Traditions for a Globalized World
The books in the above slide, and following resources may give some sources for reflection on what works and where it works: Seeking Future Alaska Native PhDs!by Ray Barnhardt and Oscar KawagleyCompensating forest-dwelling communities for drug the ...
Which flavour does knowledge have on the web?
In recent debates within the KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki project, the need arose to further refine and find a common understanding of the type of knowledge that is (ideally) managed and processed using (semantic) wikis. One of the proposals evolved ar...
5 ways to apply management principles at home
By MERCEDES M. CARDONAFor The Associated Press (AP) - Five workplace management techniques that experts say can bring harmony at home:Mission statements are not only for corporations. Patrick Lencioni, author of "The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic ...
what are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?
Q & A @ LinkedInwhat are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?Asked by: Md Abubucker Alathick. 5 Answers | February 15, 2007 in Advertising | Closed...
Knowledge production in a profession: Use-inspired knowledge revisited
NB. Here is an interesting reflection and input for the bank of change. For a reflection on change, you need to recognize change, manage change and record change in a manner that can facilitate the change. There is much more on this change in the Ma...
What Really is Benchmarking?
by Rana Sinha, Apr 10, 2008Have you ever wondered what Benchmarking really means? Is it just management hype or jargon used by expensive consultants? Here is a short outline of Benchmarking as used in business organizations. ...exxtract:Different kin...
Microsoft kills Book Search project
From Microsoft's Live Search blog:"Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be int...
The difference between cooperation and coordination
After writing our paper on collaboration there were several things we wanted to explore that just wouldn't fit into the original work. We are interested in when it's unhelpful to collaborate, examples of when collaboration has failed, and how collabo...
Researching with Wikipedia: The Experiences of Experienced Librarians
A quote from 'Many hands make crappy work' New Jack Librarian's blog: "Its largely unsaid, but Wikipedia is thought to improve by means of a strange evolution-like process...1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, ...
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew t...
The Tacit Knowledge of Team Leadership
Posted by Sam Marshall @ Intellectual Capital PunishmentDon't let the title ofTowards an Ecological Theory of Sustainable Knowledge Networks by Jeff Conklin, et al put you off. Its full of insight about project teams (rather than knowledge networks...
