E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

Information Management and Knowledge Management by John Bordeaux

And since it looks like I am on a roll, now that I have returned back home from a long business trip to the US and Madrid and have spent most of the day today on a massively intense catchup with everything that has been happening since I left, I thought I would share with you another presentation which I am sure you are going to enjoy quite a bit. In fact, I am sure it is going to make you think twice about things, specially if you have got an Information Management or Knowledge Management backgrounds.

The wonderfully provocative presentation is also in Slideshare; it was put together by John Bordeaux, one of the smartest talents and thought leaders in the Knowledge Management space that I have been following for a little while now and whose blog I can certainly recommend to anyone out there interested in the topic of KM or Knowledge Sharing, whatever you would want to call it.

A little while ago he put together What I Did and in it you would find a rather inspiring approach towards what most folks feel has gone through a certain death over the last couple of years: KM itself. Like I said, this is one of those decks that will change your point of view on some of the key elements behind it all. Have a look and you will see:

Oh and if after going through that particular slide deck, it hasn’t changed many of your views on what is traditionally known as Knowledge Management, then let me point you to a recent article he put together in his blog and which has got so much food for thought on it on this very same topic, that I will defer to an upcoming post to chew further some more on it. I tell you. It will totally be worth your time. Head over and read Back to First Principles for Knowledge Management …

I told you, it would make you think! (Thanks ever so much, John, for the inspiration!)

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Communities of Practice: Conversations to Collaboration by Steve Dale

For a good number of years Communities (of Practice, of Interest, of Purpose, etc. etc.) inside of the corporate world weren’t viewed as important and crucial as they eventually are. For a good number of years, while working as a community builder for various different business units, I have been saying that the major driver of the adoption of social software within the Enterprise are actually communities themselves. Nowadays, it looks like things are finally changing and communities are back into the game, and therefore social software is bound to succeed within the corporate environment just because of those living organisms pushing forward their usage and adoption, now more than ever before!

Thus now that your business is, at long last!, looking into the task of setting up a community building program, so it can help further with the adoption of those social networking tools, you may be wondering what interesting resources are available out there, that you could reuse, right? Well, let me help out with that.

I thought I would share with you folks over here a superb presentation that my good friend Steve Dale put together and which he just shared very recently, both over at Slideshare and in a blog post titled: Communities of Practice: Conversations to Collaboration. You can check out the deck over here (Or flip through the embedded slides below) and in it you would be able to find the following topics covered:

• "What is a "Community of Practice" (CoP)?"
• Five steps to a successful CoP
• CoP Facilitation – the magic ingredient
• Case Study – IDeA CoP Project
• Case Study from the private sector"

It is one of those decks that makes for a very interestingly helpful and educational reading, including some real case studies!, if you are new to the topic of Community Building in general and would want to know how to get started with your communities programme inside / outside of the firewall.

Well done, Steve! Thanks much for sharing this lovely presentation with us and for helping pave the ground on how to successfully nurture and facilitate communities within the enterprise world by  embracing social software. Excellent stuff!

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