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Personal Knowledge Management - Pollard

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I first got interested in the idea of bottom-up knowledge management, focused on the unique needs of each front-line employee, in 2003, my last year as Global Director of Knowledge Innovation for a major professional services firm. When I asked him about Instant Messaging, he said he handled it the same way.

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How to Save the World - PKM An Update

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I first got interested in the idea of bottom-up knowledge management, focused on the unique needs of each front-line employee, in 2003, my last year as Global Director of Knowledge Innovation for a major professional services firm. When I asked him about Instant Messaging, he said he handled it the same way.

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IBM SJ 45-4 | Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work

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IBM Research: Collaborative User Experience. IBM alphaWorks: Collaborative Development Environments. Business Collaboration Volume 45, Number 4, 2006. Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work. These workers rely on the ability to work collaboratively, leverage relationship capital, and deliver new solutions.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Why are scientific collaborations so difficult to sustain? Inspired by the vision of Wulf (1989, 1993) and others, researchers over the last 25 years have made a number of large-scale attempts to build computer-supported scientific collaboration environments, often called collaboratories (National Research Council, 1993). Introduction.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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Resources include not only static text and media but also dynamic services and their artefacts, such as instant messaging, online forum and weblog conversations. Only some VLEs provide shared file areas and collaborative facilities like chat and discussion forums. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , EduTools, 2006). Vuorikari, R.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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Most organizations, too, refused to abandon the top-down centralized information model that was already in place, merely institutionalizing it with firewalls, access restrictions, monster centrally-managed one-size-fits-all databases and websites and over-engineered, over-managed collaboration and community-of-practice tools.