Thanks for all the positive comments about these posts, and especially to Steve Weissman, who contributed this short summary, which has a pleasing conciseness I failed to achieve in the original pieces:
‘… KM is a business practice, e-learning a teaching (learning) technique, online publishing a distribution mechanism. The commonality? The underlying enabling technologies for each are [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Response to Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management parts 1 & 2
December 23, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management – Part 2
December 17, 2009 – 10:17 am
The only thing holding us back from more convergence between e-learning, online publishing and knowledge management, is the lack of mutual understanding.
Searching for the upturn: notes from Online Information ‘09
December 7, 2009 – 6:25 pm
It’s always suspicious (to a jaundiced marketing person’s eye) when a show organiser chooses to place a large seated cafe area at the centre of the exhibition floor.
There were some noticeable absences at this year’s Online Information exhibition at Olympia – no doubt the result of crunch-inspired budget caution – and the air of an industry bracing [...]

Richard Padley
Managing Director,
Semantico