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

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2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). One product of the EMSL collaboratory (Myers, Chappell, & Elder, 2003) was a high-end electronic notebook that improved on paper notebooks by saving instrument output automatically, allowing access from many locations, and providing the level of security needed for lab notebooks.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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Most knowledge workers have figured out how to get the content they need to do their jobs well, without any help from KM. When I asked him about Instant Messaging, he said he handled it the same way. He sent me back to find out why practitioners didnt know how to use the resources effectively.

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

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We conducted this study over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004 at five different business sites in the Boston area. The participants presented this situation simply as “their work,” how they get things done, or how they work with others; that is, how they deal with the dependencies that arise from working with others.