Throughout my day, because of the work I do in social media, I read a lot. I follow multiple news affiliates, journals, list serves, newsletters, and other readily available news sources. I read about revolutions, wars, poverty, starvation, natural disasters and other devastating things.  Finding happiness in the news can sometimes be a tall feat. Drama and devastation sell newspapers and intrigue audiences.

The flow of reproductive health information has been greatly influenced in recent years by knowledge management approaches. In a world of information overload, KM seeks to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. This “avoiding information overload” strategy—while useful in many contexts—has had, in my opinion, an undesirable side effect: It undervalues the creation of new knowledge. Many KM efforts focus on the organization, adaptation and sharing of existing knowledge, to the exclusion of guiding and nurturing new knowledge.