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Some good tips that apply to using ANY webinar tool

Knowledge Management Consultant, Chris Collison defines knowledge management, and explains the breadth of tools and techniques which underpin this discipline.

A nice take on Maslo for the Social Media age

Explanation of Diigo Social Bookmarking

Today we face an entirely new environment
for innovation and getting things done.
The days of the lone genius quietly toiling
away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment
to revolutionise an industry are all but
over. We are now in the days of asking and
listening to our customers and working
with them in our innovation cycles.
Innovation demands collaboration. So does
production. In the past we could focus on
a single task in an assembly-line fashion,
handing our completed activity to the next
person who would in turn do the same,
until the job was finished. Now the jobs
change fast, requiring learning new skills
rather than merely repeating the old. We
have to seek out people who have other
pieces of the puzzle and work with them
to tackle increasingly complex issues at a
much faster pace.

SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments.

Recently, the UK Met Office abandoned a twoyear SharePoint implementation project in favor of the cloud-based Huddle service. Even where SharePoint is used, people aren't truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped.

Although we'll be writing a lot here about the potential of social media to help people tell their stories, share ideas, start and continue conversations, it is seldom enough on its own. In fact, it is still very much a minority medium in the field of local community action - however powerful it can be, as shown by the work of hyperlocal bloggers (examples here, and we'll be mapping more).

This TED talk from Daniel Kahneman has huge relevance for anyone involved in Knowledge Transfer or Knowledge Elicitation work. We know that an individual's recall and their actual experience may be quite different. This excellent talk shows just how different the 'remembering self' can be from the 'experiencing self'. 

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

The relationship between happiness and productivity. Fascinating and funny TED talk from Shawn Achor