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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Reading what people recommend.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Having a remote team or a hybrid of on-site and remote team members requires a different way of working. Create a Remote Working Team Charter. Work to your energy.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. " I also wonder if Davenport would say the same thing about social networking sites in the workplace?

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. " Ah, what Will Richardson did on Earth Day.

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