Posted on January 30, 2008 by Stephan
The latest issue of the GTZ AGRISERVICE Bulletin looks at knowledge management. In particular:
1) linking knowledge management to the strategy of the institution (serving targets),
2) developing a culture of knowledge sharing (trust, reward, procedures),
3) involvement and participation of stakeholders (ownership, user logic),
4) capacity development (training, technology, organisational development),
5) contextualisation of information (content, quality, retrieval, communication),
6) monitoring and evaluation (use, impact).
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by Stephan
The information sharing platform Eldis has started eldiscommunity where groups can create spaces for information sharing and dialogue including discussion forums and blogs. To make it more accessible for people with poor internet connection the site can also be view in low-band-width mode.
There are already quite a number of groups among which a blog of [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2008 by Stephan
Many things have been written about twitter, what it does, different ways one can use it, what users get out of it, and if it can serve organizations. Several blog posts (for example here, here, here and here) are pointing out the utility twitter can have for non-profits and, recently, the post Twitter is [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2008 by Stephan
After blogging about Chris Brogan’s 5 starter moves to engage with social media yesterday, I started preparing a session on collaboration tools for our division retreat, and realized that he had not talked about social bookmarking.
Promoting the use of online bookmarking services (such as del.icio.us) is in my opinion another good way to introduce people [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by Stephan
Two days ago Chris Brogan finished a series of 5 posts on tips of how organizations can start to use social media. After starting with a introductory post he talked about Listening, Blogging, Audio and Video, and Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
To me this series presents a great starting point for those curious [...]
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