KWTwo

What is Knowledge Worker 2.0? The wikipedia definition gives the difference between the traditional model of a knowledge worker and Knowledge Worker 2.0:

Defining characteristics of Knowledge worker 1.0 are:

• worked in and around rigid/hierarchical taxonomies
• helped to define, create, manage and use those taxonomies
• was generally identifiable as a knowledge worker in corporate areas such as records and information management or library/information services
• generally enforced the process work of knowledge.

Characteristics of knowledge worker 2.0 are:

• uses taxonomies as one categorisation strategy/tool - but knows that they are only a part of a total solution that includes folksonomies and folk taxonomies.
• designs/uses information systems that recognise that different people find things in different ways
• has heightened sensitivity to organisational culture
• high awareness of information sharing and distribution
• recognises that centralised control of information is an option but not the only option
• may work in “traditional” knowledge worker domains such as records and information management but is just as likely to be found within development project teams, marketing, or human resources areas.

KWTwo.net is about Knowledge Worker 2.0 - what it means to be a knowledge worker, what it means to manage knowledge workers.