1. Identity and boundaries
(Blog/Blog)

... as people ask me to make knowledgeable assertions about "your" country, family or work. Everything in my life is spread out. I instinctively look outside to make sense of what's happening inside. I've ...

2. Communication toolbox - or ode to the pdf
(Portfolio/Toolboxes)

... it was crazy to be rewriting the procedure for some of these activities, when most of them are already on the internet. (See, in particular, the wiki with the Knowledge Sharing Toolkit). Then it got me ...

3. Calling for practical wisdom
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... a call for "practical wisdom" in a world which has gone made with bureaucracy. His call is that we: acknowledge and celebrate moral heroes and demand that people around us do too   strive to be ordinary ...

4. Who would you invite to talk about social innovation?
(Blog/News)

... speakers. Their experience of social innovation would be in areas like: job creation and local development, combating different kinds of discrimination at work, citizenship, empowerment, the knowledge ...

5. Be careful what you say you'll do
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

What do you do when someone invites you to do an interview and then sends twenty-eight, mostly essay-type questions, in a Word document? And what if it includes questions like "How can knowledge be ...

6. Time to get behind
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... I see a World3.0 for myself where: Knowledge sharing and learning has imposed high expectations on what you have to produce for other people. We look for places to chill out and produce nothing. Work ...

7. Stress - a discursive problem?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

I'm still poking around the issue of stress , and its apparent inevitability for today's savvy, knowledge web-workers. In a post on ReadWriteWeb Alex Iskoldy talks about "Why constant stress ...

8. Meltdown, Takeoff and World 3.0
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... World 3.0 Knowledge sharing and social learning is a welcome natural part of people's everyday work Knowledge sharing and learning has imposed high expectations on what you have to produce for other ...

9. Marketing authentic peasants
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... voice for describing how it was for them. Anything I say is framed with my worldview, embedded in my context and told in the language of my own self-knowledge with benefits to me and my identity. Other ...

10. KM4Dev Workshop in Almada, Lisbon
(Blog/News)

... Social Networking Technology in KM The Future of the KM4Dev Community Complexity in KM for Dev Knowledge production as a process and the roles of practitioners, academics and policy makers The ...

11. Some process issues about where we meet next time
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... different tools and spaces. In the process of this multiple participation we face a series of intricate questions about knowledge, boundaries, identity, and trajectory.It was funny how each one of us easily ...

12. The story of a platform
(Blog/Social Media)

... and different views of learning and knowledge that appear fixed in the "final" version, but which are part of an ongoing negotiation of meaning, opinions and resources.    ...

13. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... my data I'm ever more conscious of the connections between genre, discourse, knowledge, power and communities of practice and I need to encapsulate those thoughts. I shall do it by describing discourse ...

14. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

... phases in an emerging community of practice. Introduction and background "If we can stop focusing on who learns more or less of particular, culturally well-defined fragments of knowledge, and ask ...

15. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... How does this reflect the Institution’s policy for internationalisation?  Introduction Key words: transformation, global mindsets, new conceptual framework for learning and knowledge, policy ...

16. ILO/AIDs: Session Facilitator
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

ILO/AIDs and the World of Work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Facilitating the knowledge practices and peer-to-peer learning at a three day face-to-face Workshop on "HIV/AIDs Prevention and Impact Mitigation ...

17. KM4Dev: Documentalist
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

Knowledge Expeditions for CIAT at KM4Dev in the Netherlands, 2007.Exploration and support of different ways to document learning journeys.  ...

18. Inclusion/Exclusion or 'Clusion (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... and invites us to "join in the dance". She says that: "The ultimate endeavour is to co-locate the three dimensions in a dance that both acknowledges and values the dialectic through an ...

19. Intercultural Communication: some viewing lenses (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... and cross-cultural management have been: (1) “International & cross.cultural management research” (1998) by Jean-Claude Usunier and (2) “Cross-cultural management: a knowledge ...

20. Multiliteracies: a theoretical overview (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... both draw on the existing knowledges and resources and yet are also quite new." (2003:24) Modes are crucial elements for meaning-making and are therefore part of our semiotic landscape. It is this ...