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16 days already gone in 2011 and I finally decide to write down my New Year's resolutions! Well, am writing them somewhere else, not here!
However, since one of them is about blogging, I thought I might as well share it to you.
Like many of us, on 1st January we woke up and took the resolution to blog more this year. But we all agree that writing takes time, a lot of time.. so does reading!
So, this year I've decided to write more posts but with less words. It doesn't mean I will be saying less things, but rather communicate things effectively. With thousands of blogs out there people tend to bypass long posts they come across and move to more readable ones - and this is what I do too :)
This year, let us all post more, keep them brief and to the point, and be happy in the blogosphere.

Why is Knowledge Sharing important?

Patrick Lambe is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. He is a brilliant KM blogger and has been writing on topics such as Knowledge Sharing, Communities, Learning, Enterprise 2.0 and so on.


In this 15 minutes video, Patrick tells us what Knowledge Sharing is, and the crucial benefits it brings to organizations.

List Master

There was a time I was quite messy about my things. They so easily got lost, I had things I forgot I had, couldn't remember what I had to do, forgot my password for blablabla.com, etc etc.
Since then, I decided to remedy those situations by keeping a list for everything I need not forget. The problem raised later when keeping track of all those lists became complicated. The current solution to this is the 13th item in the list below:

1. To do list
2. List of expenses (budget management)
3. List of Planned leaves for the year
4.  List of registered domains
5. Shopping list for the month
6. List of Registered Sites
7. List of Passwords
8. Kitchen inventory
9. List of movies
10. List of books in my library
11. List of must-read books
12. List of birthday dates
13. List of all my Lists!

Do you keep lists too?
Who keeps a 'Before I die' list? :-)

Innovations Missing Piece

Sharing you this presentation I liked:

Innovations Missing Piece v3

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My top 5 learning tools

1.Google
Do I really need to elaborate on that?  Wanna learn something? Just Google it!

2.Twitter
Twitter is my favorite learning tool. I call it my professional-development-on-the-fly. People or instances I follow contribute to my daily knowledge acquirement. Links to posts, websites or other materials are tunneled 24-hour a day to my Twitter page. I suggest you not limiting your Twitter usage to entertainment only. I agree its great to follow movie stars and singers but at the end of the day they do not contribute to your development at all.

3.YouTube
You really get videos of everything on YouTube. The number one video sharing portal has 13 hours of videos uploaded every minute! Apart from music videos and movie trailers, you are sure to get a great share of training materials as well. Great deal for visual learners, like me.

4.Slideshare
On Slideshare.net you can browse and/or upload PowerPoint presentations. Most of the topics I looked for up to now were found on this portal. Going through slides is a quicker way to acquire knowledge compared to reading thousand of words in a book. You can either download the slides, share them or embed on your site/blog. On Slideshare you can also get ideas on creating attractive PowerPoint slides for your presentations.

5. LinkedIn Groups
I've joined several groups of interest on LinkedIn where I interact with professionals around the world. Topics or questions raised by anyone in the group are answered and debated by numerous experts in the field. Here you can learn from professional expertize in a collaborative way. Discussions in groups are presented in forum-like structure, which makes them easy to follow and participate.

What is your favorite online learning tool?