KnowingKnowledge - wiki

The KnowingKnowledge wiki has been released along with a related wiki where George Siemens has invited readers to critique and contribute to his collaborative keynote addresses.

Thinking back to my review of KnowingKnowledge, it struck me that George pays relatively little attention to knowledge representation in his writing. This may be expected as he concentrates on how knowledge is changing and notes a shift from 'hard' to 'soft' knowledge, where soft = more immediate, more emergent, more closely tied to conversation than content. Knowledge says George is now more than ever about "the now', and connections trump content in a world of immediacy and 'know now'. As we capture more ephemeral content in audio and video files, I'm wondering what we need to do to get the most from these media as representations & knowledge stores?

Here is a screencast of his collaborative keynote address  and an interview text for Online Educa Berlin, in December '06.

IMO KnowingKnowledge is an important event, I'm looking forward to the hard copy book release (now 10/10 I'm hearing), publication of the graphics on flick'r, availability of pdfs for downloading and most of all to the conversations George wishes to build around his thinking.

This is a subject that matters more than most in KM - for without a clear understanding of what knowledge really is and how it is changing - KM will continue to go in circles. Please join in this important conversation, let's hear your opinion, beliefs, mental models, heuristics and practical tips so we can all grow a little wiser together.

Comments

[David Locke]

Knowledge management can't be about now, because now is reactive, which means you didn't manage it. The means to gain knowledge requires proactivity and long efforts. It isn't about the now at all.

And, so we are having content-free conversations and somehow calling that knowledge?

Representations can only be made of explicit knowledge, which might be emergent or not. But, knowledge is not going to be explicit in all of its economic senses, or even at its most valuable. We do not need to understand implicit knowledge to profit from it. It is that profit that knowledge management should be focused on.

I have a pile of unread new economy books. I'm probably never going to read them. Content is a waste of time. If you wait around until it becomes content, you've missed the boat.