KS+Toolkit

Let's determine which tools, methods and "application needs" we want to include as a starter. Let's settle on a format. I've put in a few examples below based on what we learned through the CARE project.

Tools

 * Blogs
 * Discussion Forums
 * File Sharing
 * Instant Messengers
 * Intranets
 * Learning Management Systems
 * Microblogging (Twtiter/Jaiku)
 * Mindmapping
 * Online Collaboration Tools
 * Social Networking Sites
 * Social Network Analysis software
 * Tagging/Social Bookmarking
 * Voice Over IP (VoIP)
 * WebMeeting Tools
 * Wikis
 * Yellow Pages

Methods

 * After Action Review
 * Appreciative Inquiry
 * Chat Shows
 * Communities of Practice
 * Community Interactive Theater
 * Critical Moments
 * DeBono's Six Thinking Hats Seis Sombreros Para Pensar
 * Knowledge Fairs
 * Most Significant Change
 * Open Space
 * Peer Assists
 * Reversion del Problema
 * River of Life
 * Social Network Analysis
 * Storytelling
 * The World Cafe

Knowledge Sharing Needs/Contexts
Design of research
 * Identification of problems, defining research questions**

Data collection, analysis, determination of results

Production of research outputs

Dissemination of research results

Uptake of research results

Identification of follow-up or further research

M&E of each of those steps

Relationships with stakeholders throughout those steps Internal communications
 * Institutional** and With Partners

Support strategic planning
 * External communications
 * Intercultural knowledge sharing and communications
 * Contribute to formal knowledge structures (i.e. libraries)

Institutional Marketing

Walk our talk

Preserve institutional memory

Get support from the top

Make IT / Com / Management work better together

Process Reengineering Learning before, during, after
 * Both**

Showing the impact

Be participatory

Face changing environments

Envision the future

Scaling up and out


 * Meetings
 * Conferences