I finally got to meet Etienne Wenger in person, with an assist from my network. Etienne is, of course, one of the seminal thinkers about communities of practice who has brought tremendous insight into the ways that learning occurs in communities. He was in Boston for a conference. One of my local KM partners, Nat [...]

A new Ryze friend, Flemming Madsen, just posted a reference to an article in Dave Pollard’s blog on Social Networks, Social Software, and the Future of Knowledge Management (with a followup on business weblogs). Good thinking, and a great illustration of what you truly want as results from a search engine… the linkages among people, [...]

Back from a week at Virginia Beach, Sandbridge to be precise. Several notes about LinkedIn, with references to the article in Business 2.0. So I went back to the site and invited a bunch of people. If you are already signed up, link to me!

THE AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK: BUILDING IDENTITY AND TRUST INTO THE NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET is a very interesting white paper on the requirements for standards and protocols to support network-based organizations and the linkages among them. It is being presented at the PlaNetwork Conference which begins this weekend in San Francisco. Cynthia Typaldos has posted information about [...]