Two recent NPR stories caught my attention for how they speak to a pervasive problem plaguing organizations like mine: loss of organizational history.
One story is about “Bruce,” the name given to the three giant fake sharks used in the movie Jaws. After the filming concluded, all three models were lost and most likely destroyed. [...]
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June 21st, 2010
Lost & found: silver screen gems rediscovered
June 4th, 2010
An introduction to the “21st Century Web”
A while back, I asked for help identifying what web sites would be ideal for someone who had missed key advances on the Internet for the past several years. As a social software trainer, I teach a class designed to encapsulate the “latest and greatest” on the web in order to lay the groundwork for [...]
May 25th, 2010
Being the “hands on the keyboard” for your mentor
In an enlightening conversation I had yesterday, a senior leader where I work said that as we continue to face the likelihood of losing a large percentage of our workforce to retirement in the next few years, the organization has essentially three options to prevent hemorrhaging knowledge:
Capture their knowledge (in a usable format) before they [...]
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Tags: knowledge management, leadership, mentoring 
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