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"To help space travelers recover from the kinds of mishaps that can occur in the reaches of deep space-mishaps that can end missions and potentially end lives-Lockheed Martin is combining machine learning and artificial intelligence with augmented and virtual reality interfaces to provide a bit more self-reliance to manned space exploration missions at distances at which it could take more than 40 minutes to get a reply from mission control."

"TRL clears space for true KM initiatives"

Given that innovation is rarely a solitary endeavour, this article dispels some commonly held perceptions about how physical space affects connections in the workplace.

A brief overview of social web trends that we can anticipate taking up increasing air-space over the next 12 months. Some trends (e.g. Big Data) have wider implications than 'social web' but are included for completeness.

"This recent study shows some differences between the most used social networking sites including Face-book, Linked-in, My Space etc."

"This recent study shows some differences between the most used social networking sites including Face-book, Linked-in, My Space etc."

Addressing knowledge loss at the UK's average rate of staff turnover (around 20% a year, including managers) means that an organizations' bank of remembered know-how and experience can be reduced to homeopathic levels in just a short space of time. Fortunately, not everyone leaves simultaneously and atypical practices like job overlapping and mentoring helps. But given that academics estimate that when employees leave, they take with them up to 90% of their employers' unique knowledge - most of it tacit and nothing of which typically gets into data banks - the compounded attrition of this distinctive component of intellectual capital is still truly massive.

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).

How much does serendipity play in the sharing of ideas and developing new insights in organisations? KIN is going to talk to the SerenA project to find out.

" Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute. This innovative cross-party collaboration site was kindly brought to our attention by Dan Ranta of ConcoPhillips"