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The metaphor drawer.

Publication: KMWorld
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Last time I suggested a metaphor for how our conversations reflect and refract the knowledge of others. This time, I want to expand on the idea of metaphors as a category of personal knowledge management (PKM) tools. We all use metaphors. Just try getting through a day without one. The word's I...

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...Greek roots literally mean to "carry across" as we juxtapose one thing with another.

There are many useful metaphors in KM already. My favorite metaphor is knowledge as energy. Energy, as you may remember from grade school science classes, is "the ability to do work." And as mentioned in my previous column, knowledge, as light, is focused when we act as apertures, imprinting the light as it passes through...

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