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December 31, 2009 by Patti

The Three KMs, Redux

A few months ago, I posted a series of blogs on theAppGap on what I called the “three KMs:” Big KM Little KM Personal KM (I also followed these with one of my latest themes, Personal Net Work.) These 3KM blogs were picked up on by the folks over at InMagic, who were kind enough [...]

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December 28, 2009 by Patti

Women actually say things

Catching up — and trying to get ahead of 2010. Some interest bits from latest reading. Saba, a company that specializes in enterprise-wide human capital management, has created 8 predictions for how social computing will improve the enterprise value chain. A key thread in the predictions themselves is the importance of supporting the ability of [...]

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December 4, 2009 by Patti

Fernando Flores, Speech Acts, and Networks

One of the most powerful learning experiences in my time at Digital Equipment included immersion in a set of practices for effective communication. What I and my colleagues called “Contextual Management” was derived from philosophies articulated and propagated by Fernando Flores. At the heart of these philosophies are speech acts, a linguistic concept identified by [...]