{"id":54,"date":"2012-05-13T05:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T04:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeetal.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/30\/knowledge-retention-questions-that-say-a-lot"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:31:55","slug":"knowledge-retention-questions-that-say-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge retention: questions that say a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post_content_22907242822\" class=\"post_content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_text_wrapper\">\n<div id=\"post_content_23037905951\" class=\"post_content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_text_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post_title\">One technique Sparknow uses when trying to understand how information and knowledge flows in and around an organization is to ask a set of short simple \u2018vox pop\u2019 questions. They are short questions, the answers to which are usually very insightful.<\/div>\n<p>While I am in Bogota, Colombia this week speaking at the <a title=\"5th Knowledge Management &amp; Organizational Learning Summit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.practica.com.co\/programa.htm\" target=\"_blank\">5th Knowledge Management &amp; Organizational Learning Summit <\/a>I am going to be continuing our ongoing enquiry into the <em>evolving role of the \u2018knowledge manager\u2019<\/em> by asking the delegates to think about these simple questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you describe what you do to others?<\/li>\n<li>Is there an image, an object or a sound that sums up your experience of working in this field?<\/li>\n<li>What tool or technique do you find you use more than any other?<\/li>\n<li>What is the biggest issue you have had to face in getting people to support what you are doing?<\/li>\n<li>What aspect of your work are you most proud of?<\/li>\n<li>Knowing what you now know what advice would you pass onto someone looking to follow in your footsteps?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One technique Sparknow uses when trying to understand how information and knowledge flows in and around an organization is to ask a set of short simple \u2018vox pop\u2019 questions. They are short questions, the answers to which are usually very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[595,597,599],"tags":[18,42,60,66,105,123],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-masterclasses-observations-reports","category-knowledge-capture","category-knowledge-techniques-technologies","tag-bogota","tag-evolving-role-of-the-knowledge-manager","tag-kmol","tag-knowledge-retention","tag-sparknow","tag-vox-pop-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}