If these guys met to have lunch this is how the conversation would go – it is conversational, introductions are made, people drift in, it is slow to get going, then someone leaves and from time to time it drifts. And there are technical hitches from time to time. This is the beauty of it though, this is not a commercial webinar and it is all the better for it – you feel as if you are part of the inner sanctum.

That Google Hangouts work and will kill off Skype.
Elluminate for those who suffer this platform still should have been killed over a long time ago.

Experiencing YouTube transcription is hilarious as the words produced rarely get close. It is oddly compelling though and grabs your attention as you try to figure out how on earth the technology can get it so wrong. Perhaps like the rest of us it required a couple of decades to master the mysteries of the English language.

A narrative transcript doesn’t work. What works far better, and what I attempt here, are notes on what each of the major speakers said. This way you get a sense of their stance and can, I suppose, if needs be, reference them correctly at a later date.

I can’t sit still for one hour; it’s just impossible. 0.29:00 (I know the feeling. I stand at my desk anyway – really. I believe its better for me and rather energizing too).

Virgil ‘They are able because they think they are able’. It is the motivation as well as the preparation.

The joy of the collective mindmap

Fig .2. Personal Knowledge Management — PKM – Harold Jarche.

• There’s only one container for knowledge – people.
• Learning is conversation.
• A blog makes you a more effective knowledge worker.
• We’re working with the zealots, the early adopters. O.20:56
• Chance favours the connected mind. Stephen Johnson.
• To sell is human. You can’t distil the complex down into the 1 minute, or the 1% until you really understand it.
• Harold Jarche. Talks about getting the late adopters ‘across the chasm’ of innovations.

What is personal knowledge management 44:37
As a consultant stay ahead of the game …
Denham Grey – Knowledge management expert

Lilia Efimova – working on doctoral thesis on how knowledge experts shared
through blogs

Passion at work
Making sense of our world

Link to articles
Look at last 3 – 5
Seek – sense – share
Thinks have to be alliterative

How do we get this across the chasm (Diffusion of Innovations theory)

Have the content in as small a component as possible in order to share.

Fig. 3. Stephen Judd
Manager, Information Technology and Distance Education at UNH Cooperative Extension

• If you know the question you can find the answer.
• I can’t convert people, this isn’t a religion.
• Quest for the teachable moment.
• You can have a shared notes function.
• Collaborative blog posting. 32:00
• Seems to lower the barrier a bit … overcomes the fear of writing
• Just type out a sentence and another can help you find what you meant.
• How drive performs to share text and doodles …

How is complex knowledge shared?

You have to have strong social ties. Get to know people. Speak the same language. Harold Jarche.

Tacit knowledge. Dave Ferguson.

The only way we can share tacit knowledge is through conversation. Harold Jarche.

• 18 in services for workshops

• We’ll tell you what you need to know

• Network literacies – feeling comfortable, building your own learning network, learning more and gaining knowledge, helping people learn for themselves.

Easy to speak to the choir … how do you speak to the people on the fringes.

• Collaboration
• Validating information
• Curating information
• Making business together

We don’t need finished reports, what about the bits and pieces that got you there.

• Got to have stuff to share.
• Create knowledge artefacts

If my notes are somewhat cryptic then go and listen to the Hangout yourselves – then imagine sitting in the corner of a room at a dinner party and taking notes.

From this I have got in touch with Dr. Lilia Efimova.

I am reading her thesis on blogging.

I’m on a quest to find a topic for doctoral research myself and have blogging under consideration – I’ve kept a diary since 1975 and a blog since 1999 and have had odd occasions of lifelogging and experimental hoarding too … for a single calendar month. As an exercise. Trying to understand what to take and what to ditch, what to store and what to ditch and whether or if a diary, blog or photo means we can declutter and have access to stuff in a more intelligent way.

My textbooks from school?

My files of essay notes on European and British History?

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