I've been following the discussions for a few days now, and I'm
particularly intrigued by the Data Warehousing thread. It is something I
am currently thinking about.
My Training & Development pages bring together a wealth of training and
development resources - www pages, gopher sites, usenet news groups, faq's,
the Training & Development JobMart, the T&D Business Showcase - and
even a few fun things (a data warehouse??). Many people use our "Tools You
Can Use" page (another data warehouse at http://www.tcm.com/trdev/t7.html)
as their personal home page, just to have all the useful tools at their
fingertips.
For me, "warehouse" implies a physical place where things are put into
buckets, bins and shelves. In my view, the warehouse model just doesn't
apply to the www. Neither does the "Mad Monk's Library" model.
With the www, we can organize information and data any way we want. I
suppose my Training & Development pages could be considered a T&D
"warehouse" - but it is a "virtual" warehouse. I've organized the shelves
and bins and buckets my way. Others could "warehouse" the SAME
information another way. The www makes it possible to "warehouse" the
same information in an infinite number of different structures. It is no
longer the "Mad Monk's Library" once we find (or build) a warehouse model
which works for us.
For the Learning Organization, these virtual "warehouses" are vital
knowledge databases. It seems to me that the employee who can quickly
find (or invent) arrays of knowledge which deal with current
organizational issues will be highly valued. I've been doing one-on-one
coaching with senior executives wanting to become productive Internet
users. Recently, I've created personal organizer web pages for each
executive. Not the usual virtual resume, but an array of things they need
on an ongoing basis to improve their productivity, eg. e-mail links to
children, friends, colleagues, suppliers, etc; links to dictionaries,
currency converters, travel information - whatever they might need or
want. And, not accessible on the net, on the executives hard drive.
I find the LO listserv warehousing very useful. Just to be able to
reorganize postings by thread, and by author can provide new insights.
Now if the "threads" could just be organized across the months....
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