Knowledge Harvesting Is Surprisingly Cathartic

I thought you might be interested to read the feedback from someone that was involved in a recent knowledge harvest that I conducted;

“It’s actually surprisingly cathartic. I was worried about doing this because you don’t always know what you know. You don’t always realise what you know. And things that you do in your day-to-day work aren’t always written down, they’re not going to be written down. And I thought this was going to be a really painful experience; it hasn’t been. It’s actually been a bit of fun. I’m not certain that I’ve answered all the questions at the level of detail that the questioner would really like to know. So this is probably an overview of what I know and there may be more work for me to do to get that knowledge harvested or as I prefer to say, dredged out of my brain for it to be available to others. But it’s been quite interesting to have to sit and think about these questions and answer them. Because frankly I normally just do it rather than think about how it’s done. And I’ve actually surprised myself on some of the things I’ve realised I know.”

We are going to include it in the Knowledge Harvesting Toolkit as part of the introductory email that is sent to potential participants in the knowledge harvest.