So I have not been writing for a year in my blog. That doesn’t mean I have been frozen for a year. Too many simultaneous things have transpired that to process which is intelligible enough to spread to the world wide web would probably require advance yoga positions.
Sharing knowledge is stressful. Yes, you’v.e heard me. When we work along programs, each project, acitivity or component under it when completed has a lesson to share on what works, why it worked or did not work. But how many times did we finish an acitivity and never even bother to write a report about it? Or if we did made a thick report with glossy cover, did we ever bother to discuss that report with our peers or with other practitioners to validate or get insights?
In my work, I seldom meet organizations who have the initiative to submit a project report and actually share it even through social media. I barely see primers that are both printed and uploaded. If there are conferences, presentations are not often shared.
Knowledge must be managed. Managed knowledge must be shared! And the tools are for free!
Nearly all UN agencies have their Facebook pages. The World Bank Publications posts their new products in their Facebook page and get instant feedback from the all over the world. Nearly all knowledge producers have their publications, presentations uploaded somewhere.
What’s tools are out there? There are many. I’ve found http://www.kstoolkit.org/ and it has a number of methods and approaches to knowledge-sharing. Which one to use depends on what you want to get from the recipients of your knowledge product that you want to share.
When I first came to where I am working now, there was no databanking of project reports nor was there a design to share it. Being a lean organization in both the human and financial sense, I have initiated to scan all submitted reports and submitted researches, primers, and case studies. After a few weeks, the digital files were uploaded and now more than a thousand people has viewed and downloaded our publications which were just dusting in one of our old office cabinets.
