Group items tagged

Machine learning can automate content curation by using algorithms to scan content items, find similarities between sources and cluster them in logical groups. The content then can be tagged accordingly and displayed both proactively and on demand in response to search queries. The goal is to improve the efficiency (and cost) of curation processes while eliminating the "misses" where relevant content exists, but the system fails to connect users with the best resources.

NetIKX's first seminar of 2012 was its 3rd on the theme of social media in so many years.  Previous seminars have explored whether social media should be taken seriously, and how social media could be used to achieve organisational goals and the implications for organisational IM / KM policies and strategies.

"Learning networks come in a variety of different kinds. First, there is the personal variety, the personal learning network or PLN, which the individual person sets up and maintains, and provides him or her with  a view of or a lens on the outside world. Examples are the well-known social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, or more specialised social media, tied to your specific needs. The second kind of learning network takes the opposite perspective, not from the inside out but from the outside in. They are organisational learning networks and they try to cater for a more or less well delineated group of users.

"With Kippt you can save links, read articles, watch videos, share notes and much more. Your collections can be private or public, or shared with the people you work with."

So, your organisation has taken the plunge and invested in a shiny new enterprise social media platform.

Create the Web's best social lists on Listly or on your own website.

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative questioning and iterative improvement."

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.

"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as: - Who in my region is working on this problem? - Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme? - What are the key challenges we're facing? - Who has potential solutions to these, and what's the evidence that - they work? What evidence-based claims can we make with confidence? - What are the most controversial issues?"

y working definition of personal knowledge management: PKM: a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. PKM is also an enabling process for wirearchy: " a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results enabled by interconnected people and technology"

The term personal knowledge management (PKM) isn't about management in a business sense but rather how we can manage to make sense of information and experience in our electronic surround. Personal - according to one's abilities, interests & motivation (not directed by external forces). Knowledge - connecting information to experience (know what, know who, know how). Management - getting things done.

Since the beginning of time, human beings have collected the best humanity has produced in art, literature, science; we invented the museums, the libraries, the Encyclopedia and  have written essays and done research. We have always looked at those ones, the curators who were knowing the right sources of that knowledge, to which being able to access to will have solved our needs.   Content Curation is the online expression of something, which is in the same nature of human beings: the need to collect and catalogue only the most interesting things about a subject so to share it for the common benefit.

Next session: 20-31 August 2012 Over a two-week period we will be looking at how to use a number of different social media tools for your own professional development purposes. There will be 6 web-based assignments, which includes three live activities - as shown in the detail below. (Please note, none of the activities in this online workshop are compulsory; you choose to work on whichever you feel fits your needs.) This online workshop is suitable for those working both in workplace learning as well as in education.

Personal Knowledge Management

In traditional enterprise change initiatives, you tend to start with a defined set business requirements to address a given problem or opportunity. Socially-driven enterprise change, however, is different because parts of the organization are already changing prior to full articulation of a problem or solution. Companies find their employees using social technologies without any formal support within the organization. People are finding value, but may not be focused on quantifying that value into a business case that can be used to support the effort.

Network learning, or personal knowledge management (PKM), is an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas. In the past, self-directed learning may have involved keeping a journal, writing letters or having conversations. These are still valid, but with digital media we can add context by categorizing, commenting on, or even remixing information. We can also store information for easy retrieval as we need it.

Over the past year I have been working on change initiatives to improve collaboration and knowledge-sharing with two large companies, one of them a multinational. In each case, implementation has boiled down to two components: individual skills & organizational support. Effective organizational collaboration comes about when workers regularly narrate their work within a structure that encourages transparency and shares power & decision-making. I have also learned that changing work routines can be a messy process that requires significant time, much of it dedicated to modelling behaviours. 

Matthew Taylor has a nice line in his recent post: "the reason people engage is to have fun, to make a difference or to grow; preferably all three" ... which I think gives us a useful route into thinking about what next for digital engagement.

"We live in a world awash of information, but we seem to face a growing scarcity of wisdom," states Maria Popova, Founder of the website Brain Pickings. Popova believes it's the storyteller's role to interpret information and shape it into wisdom for the rest of the culture to share.

We are moving to the world of the sons of Socrates, where dialogue and guidance are key competencies… a world where the capability to find information and turn it into knowledge at the point-of-need provides the key competitive advantage, where knowing the right people to ask the right questions of is more likely to lead to success than any amount of internally-held knowledge and skill.