Category: knowledge sharing

2 Tips for making your blog easier to read in my feeds




Your Number 2

Originally uploaded by Erik Mallinson

Yes, it is all about me, me, me, today. Well, it is also about you if you write a blog that I want to read or you want me to read. I was scanning through my blog reader today – doing some work avoidance and blog catch up and a few things, so here are two quick set up tips for those who want others to read their blogs – including in feed readers.

1. Have full feeds. Some of you still don’t have full feeds, just teasers or headlines. Sorry, but I’m not reading you. The time it takes to click in accumulates for people like me who read lots of blogs. So either I’m just skipping the tantalizing teases, or I’m unsubbing.

2. Put your name in your blog title, or at the least, in your blog title feed. I appreciate your clever blog titles, but I’m senile and face it, I care more about you than some clever title. I subbed last week to a blog of someone I really like but then saw this odd title in my reader and kept thinking, “huh, I don’t know what that is so I’ll skip it for now.”

Flow of Donations from a Networked Response

As a follow up to a post from a few weeks ago, here is an update from Andrius Kulikauskas, Minciu Sodas.

Pyramid of Peace
Ways to help Kenyans, Kenyans to call, latest news organized by city

The latest emails from Kenya and around the world

Send phone credits to Kenya – purchase them from mamamikes.com or sambazanow.com

Click on the image above to see a diagram of part of our Pyramid of Peace. We’re thinking through how best to show all the data.

So here is the image referenced above. First, it is really helpful to me to see the impact of Andrius’ fundraising efforts. This is an interesting sort of “front end” of the ROI problem Beth Kanter is wrestling with these days. Second, and more interesting to me, is how we can visualize in some tiny way our impact in a network. A lot of what made me donate was simply trust. But to see this image, it is a positive reinforcement to make the effort again in future situations.

It is not “verified” data, but insomuch that I trust my network, the visualization offers me both a community indicator that together we can do more than I can do alone.

Donation Flow

Conference Call Practices for Learning and Knowledge

My friends John Smith and Shawn Callahan have put together a great resource for communities of practice, teams and other groups who use teleconferences calls. Conference call practices to generate knowledge and record learning

True to form in our informal network, Caren amplifies, and we continue to build on our old history .

Pretty cool…

Latest KM4D Journal – KM in Latin America

The latest KM4Development Journal is live on the web, this time with a focus on knowledge work in Latin America. I am a little surprised, because somehow I thought it would be in Spanish. I’m not sure why I thought that, but I did. In any case, I’m personally grateful they are in English for my reading pleasure, but I sure think it would be great to translate this edition (part 1 of 2) into Spanish. What do you think?

Here is the table of contents and links…

Vol 3, No 2 (2007)Knowledge sharing and knowledge management in Latin America and the Caribbean (Part I)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial: Knowledge sharing and knowledge management in Latin America and the Caribbean (Part I)

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Margarita Salas, Kemly Camacho, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Camilo Villa, Julie Ferguson, Sarah Cummings2-4

Papers

Institutionalizing learning in rural poverty alleviation initiatives

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Irene Guijt, Julio Berdegué, German Escobar, Eduardo Ramírez5-20
Resource centres set the tone for learning in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector

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Ewen Le Borgne, Carlos Talavera, Aleida Martinez, Gerardo Martinez, Gustavo Heredía, Erma Uytewaal21-37
Knowledge management for agricultural innovation within the Bolivian Agricultural Technology System: insights from the analysis of rural knowledge networks

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Frank Hartwich, Mario Monge Pérez, Luis Ampuero Ramos, José Luis Soto38-51
Building small-scale farmers learning networks: Pachamama Raymi as an innovative knowledge management system

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Javier Cabero, Willem van Immerzeel52-63

Case Studies

Knowledge sharing for good in a Europe-Latin American perspective: the VIT@LIS experience

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Fabio Nascimbeni64-73
Investing in knowledge for evidence-based social policies for children: two case-studies of knowledge dissemination initiatives in the Eastern Caribbean

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Koen Rossel-Cambier, Tom Olsen, Niloufar Pourzand74-78
Knowledge management to connect and strengthen people’s capacities in Latin America

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Arthur van Leeuwen, Annemieke Beekmans, Reintje van Haeringen85-94
Knowledge management: a key factor for productive chain evolution in the department of Cauca, Colombia. A case study of the fishing chain network

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Paola Andrea Victoria, Luz Stella Pemberthy, Natalia Maya95-104

The Gift of Intuition

This is too good not to reblog, from Shawn Callahan over at AnecdoteIntuition

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant
And has forgotten the gift

—Albert Einstein

I use my intuition as a basic part of my practice. I’m good at the rational mind stuff as well, but sometimes I “know” something in a way I can’t explain. I can’t always “justify.” It is not about being right or wrong but listening to that voice of intuition and knowing how to weave it into my practice.

How do you use your intuition? Or do you ignore it? At what cost?