Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ?
sgEngage
MARCH 31, 2023
Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2017
According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Your team can do a simple mindfulness exercise by starting a meeting with a deep breath and going around the table to share how you are feeling in the moment. Work to your energy.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JULY 8, 2024
For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Until now, there was no good way to turn that tacit knowledge into data that a company could use.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 23, 2006
" Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 7, 2021
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
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