It could be helpful to have a process to learn from these cross-team AARs, respecting privacy appropriately.

These are potentially pivotal resources! I don't recall what synchronous and asynchronous opportunities for collaboration were designed to launch and leverage these, but from a strategic KM perspective, I would love to see that Show and Tell happen!

This is a key benefit of secondments and "moving around." You pick up not only good feedback but also content and context that can be applied (and shared) in the next gathering. It's a little bit like a bee cross-pollinating.

This was huge, I think, from a KM perspective -- in my mind one of the most impactful approaches to knowledge sharing at scale. In brief, it provided a structure for diverse USAID teams to have "their month" to curate, synthesize, and create relevant content that amplifies the good work of their team and makes it accessible to stakeholders, users, and partners in the USAID ecosystem.

This is great. I could definitely see Agrilinks blog posts being leveraged by teams and individuals to have that consistent space to write and share. I have a Wordpress blog but not everybody has their own site.

This was an extremely useful step. Primarily it made it easier for prospective teams to know what support we could provide, but there's also nothing like defining a product or service to force a team to clarify their offering.

I love how writers and commentators talk about Steph Curry. It's fascinating to see people try to capture his greatness and how it affects others and transforms the experience for everyone.

I really appreciated having this. Every org or team that articulates a TOC has the opportunity to actually use it to impact their programming. We definitely used this as a touchstone at periodic internal convenings both to document our impact, and to plan forward.

The Gender GLEE was absolutely a highlight of my experience with KDLT. Not suprisingly, it was also the most challenging project I had worked on in a long time, with lots of moving pieces and contributors. But with a little distance from being in the thick of it, what a collaboration!

Huge. Perhaps the most important part of this document. The requirement to have a plan not only provides management with a reason to sufficiently support staff to create one, but should create the conditions to promote sharing across units (BIOMs). THAT could be the biggest lever of all.

I really love these "opportunities!" Depending on the requirements for the KM reports created by org units, actions or outputs like these could be the most practical pieces to operationalize the Policy.

I affirm this statement 100% but wonder if it is emphasized enough here. Meetings of many types may be one of the most important levers for knowledge sharing.

Very important. To the question "KM for what?" we should answer, at least primarily, "to better achieve program (business) goals."

A definition we an rally around as an organization is very helpful

Whoa

I adore these three -- so good together

One of the most important decisions here: The online space become the common space to access all shared info for the meeting.

Simply awesome reminder that facilitators have biases and limitations, but we are not powerless to address them.

Voila, the layered effects of asking participants questions. Love.

Love this list of questions. Even just asking the questions, optimally during the convening itself or at the end, can provide so much data!

That hybrid meetings require more work should not be controversial but it is vital to be candid about affordances and constraints. Does accessibility require that every work meeting be hybrid? Not necessarily.

This makes me think of Priya Parker's discussion of the "center of gravity" of the members coming together. A host of decisions and structures flow from that consideration. https://hyp.is/mtbUllx9Ee28xAf8D1JttQ/www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathering-newsletter/the-art-of-hybrid-gathering

Love the way Deborah moves us to do some modality-shifting here -- to see not just space as a category but time.

Great, simple definition. Am definitely open to others.

This is just a rock-solid, practical question to contemplate -- and helps to make logistical decisions about organization.

I'm freaking loving this piece. So human. But these sentences crack me up b/c they remind me of the amazing They Might Be Giants song, I Can Add when he sings: Now I'm gonna sing it in Spanish. And I don't even know Spanish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0flJNX_UFM

Ha, I can't help but think of Rashi's commentary about the new moon. "Leesteem atem!"

This is an awesome phrase: seamless purveyors of CLA goodness! lol

Marginalized people in any organization or society are acutely aware of the gap between ideal and reality and are often ideally situated to give voice to that tension. The question is whether others will listen and engage in dialogue.

I am amazed at how clear and crushing a picture this paints of the writer's parents' prospects to be successful, because they were black and poor. This was not 1619 either, but just over 50 years ago.

We sometimes just do this at night. It's called mini Shema.

Indeed. Just as it requires knowledge and skill to design, develop, and deliver an online learning experience, the same applies to blended learning. Making informed decisions about how to blend is deep, deep, deep.

I adore this, b/c this is one powerful aspect of literacy IN ACTION. The writer (artist, performer, singer, etc.) is doing something, feels it intuitively. Then a teacher, or peer or fellow collaborator helps them to name what they are doing. Call it author's craft, or technique, or approach. But it invites the learner/actor to do deeper into their craft and join the discourse of actors before them.

Every writer should read this paragraph. Sometimes you need to sit on it, give it time to marinate. So many ways to approach sitting on it, of course, but that's just glorious detail.

This is flat out a paen to absorbing literacies through the early experiences with our families and communities, but especially, especially our parents. Kendrick says it himself, his parents sharing their culture made his glorious unfolding possible.