instead of just focusing on the corporate world, we would have KM and social
software focusing on what really matters: the day to day stuff that can affect
your own life (And that of your loved ones) and the environment for many years
to come
As always, Luis has a point. And for me the point is about awareness and action. People do something about an issue when it is real to them, when they are connected to it by images, words, sounds, conversations & relationships.
Which brings me to MentorNet. ABB gave us a demo of this today. Part of a program aimed at offering support for Australian businesswomen, it's a collaborative / personalised learning environment built on Atlassian's Confluence wiki product . The technology is wikis/blogs/tags/RSS (mashed up with Flickr & other stuff). But what's impressive is the simplicity with which it allows participants to collaborate with each other & to share images, words, sounds, conversations & relationships.
MentorNet is an example of a Learning Support Platform. There are surprisingly few of these around. Most Learning Management Systems are in fact Training Management Systems. Nothing wrong with this but they are about dispensing training courses rather than the individual & collective learning of people. That will change. It has to.
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Hi Matt! Thanks much for the linkback and for sharing your thoughts on this important topic, I find. I particularly enjoyed this quote which I think is spot on: "People do something about an issue when it is real to them, when they are connected to it by images, words, sounds, conversations & relationships". I am not sure what you think about it, but that is another lovely way of describing what KM should be about. I am surely glad you have commented on it and shared it with us. I can certainly identify with it big time!
Pretty much like with MentorNet. I have been reading some more about it after you have shared your post and I sense it is one of those initiatives that blends quite nicely knowlege sharing and learning for a large audience using tools which are relatively easier to make use of. Good stuff!
Like you said, it will have to change. More and more we are seeing how learning keeps taking place much more actively while at work than at the classroom, so I feel that we would continue to witness a major transition into embedded learning, or informal learning, than the traditional one and mentoring sounds like the perfect approach to it!
Luis - Lovely to have you visit here. I think we are due a major transition too. Which reminds me...
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