KM Tweeters!

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

I started out with a simple mission to compile a top ten list of people who regularly tweeted on KM inspired by this list Ten People All Twitter Beginners Should be Following.

And of course, like a good Tweeter I announced my intent on Twitter only to be reminded by @Nimmy that
@Patrick DiDomenico had already created a pretty comprehensive list of 80 or so of KM tweeters: Must-Follow Twitterers on Twitter | Knowledge Management.

So what to do? Well first I have merged; removed duplicates and sorted Patrick’s lists and turned them into links to the individual’s tweet page. This allows me and others to quickly click through to their page and check them out. See the list at the bottom of this page.

In clicking through on these folk – many are clearly not focused on KM – a place to browse, a place to start but not a top 80 by any means. And this is a general problem, as many KMers like myself and Nimmy tweet on a wide range of topics but only some on KM. So I am trying to remember to tag my KM tweets with a #KM tag to make them easy to find.

The criteria for my list? That’s difficult, but mainly people whom I know and respect; who I follow myself and who frequently post good, relevant KM tweets even if they would not label themselves a KM person as such.

If you consider yourself a “KM tweeter” and are not on any of these lists or you know of others who should be here then please let me know.

So a first crack at my list. But note I will be updating it. (last update: rev 4: 16:34, 02 Jan 2009)

David Gurteen’s top ten KM tweeters (in no particular order)

  1. Dave Snowden
  2. Stan Garfield
  3. Shawn Callahan
  4. Nancy White
  5. Lilia Efimova
  6. John Tropea
  7. Nirmala Palaniappan
  8. Mary Abraham
  9. Jack Vinson
  10. Matt Moore

Other KMish tweeters (in no particular order)

Twitter Group: Knowledge Management (KM) Practitioners
Another good source of KM tweeters is the Twitter Group: Knowledge Management (KM) Practitioners.

Patrick DiDomenico’s original KM tweeters’ list (sorted in alphabetical order)

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There’s a crack in everything

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

In a recent conversation with Dominic Kelleher in Brussels we discovered a joint appreciation of the poems and songs of Leonard Cohen and Dominic told me of one of his favorite songs and a quote from it that I too particularly liked. This was the quote.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

From the the lyrics of the song Anthem by Leonard Cohen

But then in googling the song and the quote I found this fragment from an interview with Leonard Cohen that brought the words even more to live for me.

In another song you also say “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. It is not a very happy thought to believe that something will always have to break, to open a crack, in order to the light gets in…

It is a happy thought if we enjoy the truth. There is always something that will have to break. Usually it is our personal pride.
A Buddhist thinker said that disappointment is a great way to illumination. Other masters said: “from the broken débris of my heart I will erect an altar to the Lord”.

The idea that there is a staircase of gold and marble, which leads to knowledge is seductive, but seems to me that the idea of something needing to get broken before we can learn anything is a more true idea. It is my experience, maybe you can escape it, but I doubt it. Unless the heart breaks, we will never know anything about love. As long as our objective universe doesn’t collapse, we’ll never know anything about the world.

We think that we know the mechanism, but only when it fails we understand how intricate and mysterious is the operation. So, it is true, “there’s a crack in everything”, all human activity is imperfect and unfinished. Only that way we can have the notion that there’s something inside us that can only be located through disillusion, bad luck and defeat. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case.

From an interview with Leonard Cohen

Some interesting food for thought on KM from an enexpected source. I love it!

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Conference bags with a difference

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

I hate the bags usually given out at conferences. Most of the time I don’t need them. I empty the contents into my own bag and hand the conference bag back. What I dislike is all the advertising over the bag that pretty much ensures you would never want to use it again and certainly not give it to say to a child or friend who might otherwise appreciate it.

But when I arrived exceptionally early at an event (Tsiba Appreciation Breakfast) in Langa on the outskirts of Cape Town a few weeks back I was asked if I minded to help pack the delegate bags which of course I was only too happy to do especially as the bags were something special. They were designed and made locally and were simple and colorful – unfortunately I cannot recall the name of the supplier. Here is a photo of a small selection of some I helped pack!

Tsiba Appreciation Breakfast, Cape Town, Nov 2008

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NineShift: predicted changes in the next 20 years

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

Some interesting thoughts via Harold Jarche on the changes we might see in the next 20 years.

In just twenty years, between 2000 and 2020, some 75% of our lives will change dramatically. We know this because it happened once before. Between 1900 and 1920, life changed.

Nine Shift explores the uncanny parallels between today and 100 years ago, examining the changes between the two transition periods and the forces that restructure society in the new economic era.

Here are the predicted shifts from Nine Shift

  1. People work from home.
  2. Intranets replace offices.
  3. Networks replace pyramids
  4. Trains replace cars
  5. Dense neighborhoods replace suburbs
  6. New social infrastructures evolve.
  7. Cheating becomes collaboration.
  8. Half of all learning is online.
  9. Education becomes web-based.

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What Gen Yers want from the workplace

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

An interesting article by Teresa Wu: Generation Y in the Workplace Explained. Funny, I am most definitely a baby boomer but I crave the same things!

But did I, when I was twenty-something? To a large degree yes. I was by and large quite conventional and a little afraid “to ask” but I wanted all the other things – especially the freedom “to do what I loved”. I guess that’s why, today, I am working for myself!

As Gen Y enters the professional world, we bring a whole new set of rules. We’re often criticized for our restless job-jumping or our sense of entitlement. The truth is, we might play the game differently, but that doesn’t mean we’re not every bit as bright, innovative, and hardworking. Here’s why.

  • We crave personal development
  • We pursue unconventional paths
  • We value company culture
  • We’re not afraid to ask
  • We embrace transparency
  • We just want to do what we love
Credit: Guest post on Chris Brogans blog by Teresa Wu

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I love TweetDeck

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

I find myself using Twitter more and more these days since on Dave Snowden’s advise I installed TweetDeck as my primary user interface.

TweetDeck just runs in background and every so often I pop it up so see what my friends are up to. It also allows me to follow a large number of people and not be overwhelmed. I have two groups: my core network of about a dozen people and then several hundred others.

So if you like to tweet – take a look. And if you are not doing so already follow me on Twitter.

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Amazing photos of Google Offices in Zurich

January 22, 2009

By David Gurteen

A lot is written about the Google culture but take a look at these photos of the Google offices in Zurich. Quite amazing!

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Seeing Through the Fog of Data

January 22, 2009

A growing crop of companies addresses the challenge of finding trends and tendencies within a mind-boggling expanse of collected data.

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The Time Is Now

January 22, 2009

IN THE KNOW

In a climate of globalization, mergers and the never-ending drive to accelerate product development, organizations need?more urgently than ever?to tap into resident knowledge.

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Don’t Put Your Company in a Purple Haze

January 22, 2009

IN THE KNOW

Let your retiring Baby Boomers go, but not their knowledge.

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