David Gratton CEO of Donat Group is in Toronto at CSTD 2007 presenting Implementing Social Networks for the Efficient Capture and Generation of Knowledge

How can social networks be used to enable communities of interest to generate and capture knowledge? This session will illustrate, via a series of case studies, the progression of informal collaboration systems to generate and manage knowledge. David Gratton will discuss the features and evolution of talk lists, Learning Object Repositories (LORs), SharePoint, discussion forums, blogging, and integrated social networks. Is there an optimal “silver bullet” approach, or does each technology offer unique functionality for learning and knowledge capture in the workplace? David Gratton will engage the audience in a discussion about collaborative systems and what’s driving the new trend towards constructed online communities.

Learning outcomes:
1. Discover and recognize the types of environments that facilitate the generation
and capture of knowledge.
2. Learn how knowledge generation and knowledge capture are pulled together to
produce social learning.
3. Learn to apply these skills to corporations as well as communities of interest.

Audience: Those involved in corporate knowledge management, training, and research. This session will also be of interest to broader industry associations and Centres of Excellence.