The new power of communities in knowledge construction and distribution; keynote at Publishers Forum Berlin 2010.

1. Community is King.
The new power of communities
in knowledge creation and transfer.
Marcus Birkenkrahe
Berlin School of Economics
and Law 1

2. Knowledge management
is relationship work ...
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3. … rather than a form
of engineering ...
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4. ...or an elevated maintenance service
for data spaces devoid of humans.
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5. It is no longer
about the “nuggets”,
it's about daily work.
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6. “Knowledge is between
people in an organisation
and has to do with the
quality of relationships
in that organisation.”
Ralph Stacey
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7. Networking leads to
loss of power of the
traditional
knowledge elites.
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8. New Media
Kiss of Death
or
Kiss of Love
For Publishers? 8

9. Find new ways of communication
instead of running behind old ones.
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10. “Why can't we turn everybody
into being both a learner and
a teacher? Nothing clarifies
ideas better than explaining
them to others.”
John Seely Brown
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11. Wikis + Blogs =
Distributed
Information
Management.
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12. Learn from Indies:
Content
is becoming
more fuid.
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13. The desire for
self presentation
turns into
self publication.
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14. “Watch your step.
Safety First.” is
Monkey Business. 14

15. Kindle: a new device for more
more privileged consumption.
Not “the future of the book”.
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16. Virtuelle 3D worlds:
disruptive
technologies that
are only growing
up now.
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17. * see me on
what you preach!*
Thanks and practice
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