A twin-strategy approach to implementing KM

Favorite Implementing Knowledge Management requires two parallel strategies, like the two prongs of a fork. There was a very interesting article by Ron Bascue in the 2011 Fall edition of the US Army KM newsletter (now no longer available online), about a twin-strategy approach to delivering a Knowledge Management strategy.

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Shared by Nick Milton August 30, 2019

You can’t do KM without a budget

Favorite One of my Knoco colleagues was in a KM workshop a while ago with a client, and raised the issue of the KM Budget. One of the people in the room said “What? Does Knowledge Management need a budget?”  Budget, by 401(k) 2012, on Flickr, from http://401kcalculator.org My colleague

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Shared by Nick Milton August 29, 2019

Speed up training on Amazon SageMaker using Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon EFS file systems

Favorite Amazon SageMaker provides a fully-managed service for data science and machine learning workflows. One of the most important capabilities of Amazon SageMaker is its ability to run fully-managed training jobs to train machine learning models. Visit the service console to train machine learning models yourself on Amazon SageMaker. Now you

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 28, 2019

What makes a community of practice successful? Top 10 factors

Favorite There have been many articles and blog posts (including here) listing “Top Success Factors for Communities of Practice“. Usually these are based on a combination of experience and theory. Here’s a different approach. Image from wikimedia commons As part of our global global Knowledge Management Surveys in 2014 and

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Shared by Nick Milton August 27, 2019

How to run a wikithon

Favorite We all know about the traditional lifecycle of Wikis. They start with a blaze of publicity, attract a dozen or so pages, then activity fades inexorably away. It doesn’t have to be like this! Try starting with a wikithon Euro stem cell wikithon, image from wikimedia commons The Wikithon

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Shared by Nick Milton August 21, 2019

The curse of knowledge (video)

Favorite When we have a lot of knowledge, we underestimate how hard it is to communicate this to people who don’t know.  This is called the “Curse of Knowledge” – a cognitive bias that leads to people trying to convey knowledge in bullet points, or in fuzzy statements which are

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Shared by Nick Milton August 19, 2019