WFED 597E end of 7th week

continued to reflect on what I am learning

finsihed reading the process and tools articles

pressing on reading the Dixon text book

Important kinds of knowledge activities:
creating new common knowledge
leveraging common knowledge across organizational boundaries

A perfect example of this need for knowledge leveraging occurs almost daily here at our institution.
When I did my internship with Continuing Ed I realized that so much of the cutting edge knowledge that organization uses to train and instruct the Commonwealth's organizations and businesses is really needed by other organizations within our institution's community.

Another example is when a staff assistant from Continuing Ed met me in the Women's Mentoring Program. She saw immediately the need for Continuing Ed to address the members of the Program and present info on Continuing Ed offereings. The Women's Mentoring Program is 10 years old!

This need for common knowledge is so big - like blind folks describing an elephant. I only grasp a small part. Do I have the tusk, the trunk, the ear, the leg, the tail? What part do you have? How can we dialogue about our parts?

The bottom line is to press on, keep pursuing what really matters to you, learn from everything that comes your way, make your world a better place. GO!