Why communities of practice need active management

Favorite Here is a cautionary tale about the importance of active Community of Practice management and facilitation, and what happens when the facilitator is removed. The story comes from Tom Humbarger, who was the community facilitator for a professional community from January 2007 until he was made redundant in July

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Shared by Nick Milton July 6, 2020

What incentives work for Knowledge Management?

Favorite There are a number of ways to incentivise KM, but which ones work? I blogged yesterday about an article which confirms that financial incentives for sharing knowledge can easily backfire, but which incentives actually work? We can answer this question with data from the Knoco KM surveys in 2014,

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Shared by Nick Milton July 3, 2020

2019 Q4 recipients of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards

Favorite The AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) aims to advance machine learning (ML) by funding innovative research and open-source projects, training students, and providing researchers with access to the latest technology. Since 2017, MLRA has supported over 180 research projects from 73 schools and research institutes in 13 countries,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 2, 2020

How G2 got knowledge sharing to work

Favorite Here is a very interesting article from G2 about how they finally made knowledge sharing work, after failing twice. The article, by Deirdre O’Donoghue, is a very interesting read. They tried to introduce structured knowledge sharing three times, and only succeeded at the third attempt.  What was different about

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Shared by Nick Milton July 1, 2020