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Out of the depths of destruction...
Debra M. Amidon
Amidon, recently appointed to the Board of KnowMap
as Global View Director, in this guest editorial tries to make
sense of disaster and encourage us to carry on to the next frontier.
Contribute your thoughts on our
Special Reflections
Page.
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to help? You may make contributions of money, blood or support
the victims of the recent disaster and others. See the The
Red Cross Donations may also be made to The
International Committee of the Red Cross.
Bringing Light
into a Darkened World
Xenia Stanford
What can we do in times of darkness when we each are only one?
Stanford brings words of hope from a recent Canadian Association
of Professional Speakers (CAPS) seminar. The speakers showed how
only one can make a great deal of difference.
Modeling A Culture of Collaboration: Part II - Implementing a
Social Venture
Barbara Weaver Smith
Due to recent events we will not be able to bring you this article
until Vol. 2, No. 1 of KnowMap.
Part II chronicles the processes of inventing the project model,
implementing the project, and integrating it into the community
landscape. It continues the following from Vol. 1, No. 5 Modeling
A Culture of Collaboration: Part I - Designing a Social Venture
Special Articles on Distance Education
Advantages
and Disadvantages of Designing, Developing, and Delivering e-Learning
Content
Gary W. James
With the many options available now for delivering e-learning,
how do you ensure you are matching the medium to your audience
and your content? James suggests by carefully weighing the audience
and training content against the list of advantages and disadvantages
he presents, you should be able to better design, develop and
deliver your e-Learning content.
Enriching Distance
Learning with Experiential Learning
Steve Eskow
Eskow cautions us that there are things to be experienced and
to be learned, in face-to-face communities, which cannot be virtualized
and cannot be easily simulated. Rather than tossing out distance
learning due to the limitations, he points out the advantages
and offers suggestions to improve the quality of distance learning.
Distance
Cola (Collaborative Online Learning Algorithm): Effervescent Learning
Online
H. Guy Bensusan
Bensusan explains the fundamentals of his COLA innovative method
of making online learning effective, interactive and lively in
spite of the diverse and disperse make-up of the distance learning
class.
Standards
& Conventions
Department of the
Navy: Standards for Implementing an Enterprise Knowledge Management
Taxonomy
Michael J.D. Sutton
Sutton has returned from his sabbatical during which he was a
member of this team engaged in mapping effective knowledge access
for repositories within the United States Department of the Navy
(DON). We are indebted to DON and their Chief Knowledge Officer,
Ms. Alex Bennett, for allowing Sutton to share his valuable experiences
and learning on this exciting project.
Auditing
The Knowledge Audit:
The First Step in Knowledge Management
Jerry Ash
Most advocates of knowledge management agree that the absolute
fundamental first step is the knowledge audit. Yet many today
are skipping the audit altogether. Ash shows why KM leaders believe
this first step is essential.
Knowing What We
Need to Know - Part II - Auditing with the End in Sight
Xenia Stanford
Stanford explores the goals and further dimensions of auditing
with the view on what we hope to accomplish through the audit.
This continues Part I from Vol. 1, No. 5 Knowing
What We Need to Know - Part I: Auditing For Knowledge Gaps
And in Vol. 2, issue 1: Knowing What We
Need to Know: Part III - Measuring
What We Truly Need to Know
Several tools for measuring what we need to know will be given
and examined for barriers and benefits.
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