Knowledge Rocks!

In an article related to the Digital Health counterpoint in Business Week, the role of physicians and their status is examined [Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine -- A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened].
It seems that a number of physicians in [...]

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I have started a list of expertise books on Amazon. There are several books on the subject that I have read over the last two years. I will try to keep this list up to date.
If you know of other books that should be on this list, I would love to hear from you.
/Joel

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At the presentation for the Toronto Knowledge Workers group, one of the participants asked (and I paraphrase): “How large does an organization have to be to take advantage of expertise networks?”.
Reaching back in my memory, I remembered having a similar discussion about ‘virtual organizations‘ when I was doing a workshop for the Association for Creative [...]

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I recently did a presentation on Expertise Networks to colleagues in the Toronto Knowledge Workers Group.
I have posted the slides on SlideShare (if you have not explored SlideShare, I would encourage you to do so. A great place to find and share slides on almost any topic. Some of the slides are shared with a [...]

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After a hiatus and time away from this blog, I’m back. Thanks for your patience.
Joel

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Most of my colleagues and friends know that I have a strong research interest in questions of expertise, including topics such as expertise: development; management; networking; location; sharing; communities; etc. So, when I read July 29th Science Times section in the NY Times, I was surprised, and delighted, to find three articles that illustrate the [...]

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One of my favourite magazines, The Futurist Magazine (July-August 2008), has an interesting article (“The 21st-Century Writer“) as the cover story. I was fascinated by this examination of knowledge media and its impact on the publishing industry. The article was reporting on a conference in  February — in midtown Manhattan — publishing magnate and [...]

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