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SharePoint for Formal Social Learning

Sometimes (many times) you don’t have bottomless budgets and are “stuck” with the technology you’ve got. Well, true creativity happens in a box and sometimes that box is SharePoint. SharePoint as you are likely aware is a Microsoft enterprise platform that has many functions from document management, workflows, individual sites and department sites. Many organizations

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It’s not the Length of Experiences that matter but the Experiences that Lengthen

12 years ago this month I got laid off from a job I held for just under 2 years. You’d think that wouldn’t be much time to make it memorable but it was. And an experience that I didn’t recognize as such at the time but one that subconsciously nestled in and blossomed later. I

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Surf’s Up!: An Analogy for PKM

For a recent presentation designed to help people better understand Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) I anticipated that beyond the word Personal things would get sticky, lofty, and filled with preconception. “Knowledge Management” is loaded to say the least. As such it can serve as a barrier to understanding the information.  I decided to bookend the

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