How Connect and Collect work within knowledge management

Favorite A reprive from the archives – an overview of Connection and Collection as dual components of KM. Image by Marc Smith on Flickr There are two main mechanisms for supporting the flow of knowledge in an organisation – Connecting the people, or Collecting the content.  These are sometimes seen

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Shared by Nick Milton September 10, 2020

Visualizing TensorFlow training jobs with TensorBoard

Favorite TensorBoard is an open-source toolkit for TensorFlow users that allows you to visualize a wide range of useful information about your model, from model graphs; to loss, accuracy, or custom metrics; to embedding projections, images, and histograms of weights and biases. This post demonstrates how to use TensorBoard with

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 9, 2020

How can governments support a knowledge economy?

Favorite Governments know all about supporting traditional economies. So why are they so poor at supporting the knowledge economy? Image from wikimedia commonsby 401(K) 2012, CC licence A “knowledge economy” is a focus for many many governments in the developed world. A knowledge economy is one “where distinctive know-how is

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Shared by Nick Milton September 9, 2020

The importance of maximising knowledge findability

Favorite How many times do people miss knowledge because they don’t know it exists, or can’t find it? Image from wikimedia commonsattribution Dg-505, CC licence My guess is that this happens all the time. Someone creates a great knowledge resource, but others don’t know about it, and even if they

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Shared by Nick Milton September 7, 2020

Why you should not make the KM CoP your first Community

Favorite It is tempting, when starting KM in your organisation, to set up a Knowledge Management community of practice as a way to demonstrate the value of communities. I suggest this may be a mistake. Of course knowledge management will need a community of practice, but there are three reasons

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Shared by Nick Milton September 4, 2020