Davenport and Prusak correctly observed that "knowledge management must be part of everyone's job." Perhaps the most fundamental way this happens is through personal knowledge management or personal sensemaking. Harold Jarche describes personal KM as a three-part process of aggregating, filtering and connecting/sharing.

During this KMers' Tweetchat, we'll discuss ways to achieve personal KM and how knowledge managers can coach knowledge workers throughout their organization to be more effective at personal KM or personal sensemaking.

 Knowledge management is ill-defined but even more crucially ill-assessed. The inaccuracy and inadequacy of monitoring (1) approaches for KM has left behind a trail of tensions, heated debates, frustrations and disillusions. Differing perspectives on the value of KM and on ways to conduct monitoring have further entrenched these reactions.

How to reconcile expectations from managers / donors on the one hand, from teams in charge of monitoring knowledge management and clients / beneficiaries on the other hand? How to conjugate passion for and belief in knowledge-focused work with business realism and sound management practice?

What are approaches, methods, tools and metrics that seem to provide a useful perspective on monitoring the intangible assets that KM pretends to cherish (and/or manage)? What are promising trends and upcoming hot issues to turn monitoring of KM into a powerful practice to prove the value of knowledge management and to improve KM initiatives?

Join this Twitter chat to hear the buzz and share your perspective...

Modern organizations need a new, collaborative, value-driven approach to Innovation, which is challenging traditional views. It appears that the “Knowledge Management side of Innovation” is not fully exploited. Closer synergy between Knowledge and Innovation practices would certainly benefit the innovation process.

Many knowledge management programs and social media initiatives begin as grass roots efforts or skunk works projects, gaining users from the ground up. Others are launched by top executives through formal communications imploring members of the organization to participate. The most successful implementations combine both of these methods, while adding one more: the executives and their staffs not only communicate about the initiative, they actually participate themselves in a visible manner.

During this chat we'll examine this premise, and share experiences around it. 

US chat time is 12pm EST, 9am PST

This chat will be about the possibility of creating a KMers virtual workgroup to accomplish some task that we feel is worthwhile.

17 UTC = 12 ET

Last year Stan moderated a discussion based around 3 of his 13 tips (link)

This chat we want to talk about 3 other tips

• Collect content; connect people
• Include openly; span boundaries
• Network; pay it forward & share relentlessly

10 other KM tips from Stan

• Enable innovation; support integration
• Try things out; improve & iterate
• Set goals; recognize and reward
• Lead by example; model behaviors
• Tell stories; get others to tell theirs
• Prime the pump; ask & answer questions
• Let go of control; encourage & monitor
• Just say yes; be responsive
• Meet less, deliver more

We voted about which 3 we should discuss: http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2326619/ Voting closed on Monday 12/7