#PKMChat 2015-09-02 Limits of Best Practices

Best Practices have been at the center of hot exchange during #PKMChat summer break

This topic started with a tweet from our regular participant Nick Leffler @technkl I collected a few on the right column. Click on the date of the first tweet to view the full conversation. Judging by the length of the thread we have a framing post. We already had a chat on Best Practices last year, but it was really about how to design them. Now it’s more a deconstruction point of view. Or a recontruction point of view as suggests Nick Milton @nickknoco from Knoco Ltd.

Let's re-habilitate "Best Practice": There is a lot of pushback in the KM world about the term "bes… http://t.co/MFU4EPOGEe #KM #KMers

— Nick Milton (@nickknoco) August 21, 2015

“There is a lot of pushback in the KM world about the term “best practice”, but is it a bad term, or is it just a term than needs rehabilitation?” Read more: http://www.nickmilton.com/2015/08/lets-re-habilitate-best-practice.html#ixzz3kUtDg7Ev PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.

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https://twitter.com/technkl/status/621711235990487040

.@technkl @RaftLearning OMG – the worst concept ever… "Best Practice" it's only best if can be scaleable. Which often it cannot. #chat2LRN

— Shannon Tipton (@stipton) July 16, 2015

@stipton @AndrewJacobsLD @technkl @RaftLearning impossible to develop best practices for complex situations, only heuristics #chat2lrn

— Harold Jarche (@hjarche) July 16, 2015

@technkl @stipton Best practices can make things more efficient, but only if it works for the user. My way isn't the only way. #chat2lrn

— Gail Radecki (@RaftLearning) July 16, 2015

Another position

Let's re-habilitate "Best Practice": There is a lot of pushback in the KM world about the term "bes… http://t.co/MFU4EPOGEe #KM #KMers

— Nick Milton (@nickknoco) August 21, 2015