Ben Bradley of Growingco.com interviewed me about Knowledge Management that ran over at Darwin magazine a few weeks back. It was an interesting exercise reflecting on my worst technology mistake. It probably won’t surprise anyone here, but I concluded that
In particular, I’ve become a lot more skeptical about top-down approaches to knowledge management. And I’ve [...]
Thank you Judith for the reminder and pointer to an excellent resource. If we’re going to be serious about doing knowledge management in whatever flavor we happen to believe in (personal, corporate, or otherwise), then we need to stay grounded in the work that has come before us.
I’m reminded of an old software engineering quote [...]
This is a pointer to an overview of blogging by Harry Wessel of the Orlando Sentinel. It’s been popping up in various newpapers and been pointed to by various bloggers. This time it shows up in St. Louis, which is my old home town. Maybe someone from my high school days will get in touch. [...]
More insight from Weinberger. A while back one of my former Diamond colleagues, Lynne Whitehorn-Umphres made the observation that over the last twenty years, the rato of metadata to data has gone from 1 in 100 to 100 to 1. I didn’t really appreciate where she was going with that point, but Weinberger helps me [...]
Once again, Denham is spot on in his analysis. This is another instance of where organizations engage in magical thinking in lieu of the real thinking needed to tackle how to improve the way they support and leverage knowledge work.
Anywhere - Anytime knowledge??. Many organizations have pinned their hopes on delivery of knowledge anywhere, anytime, [...]
More efforts to dig into the connections between blogs and organizations.
MBA Student Suvey Project: The Blog as a Meaningful Business Tool.
Matthew Lin wrote me and asked to help publicize his survey. If you leave your email addy at the end, he’ll share his report. Here is his email:
Dear Nancy,
My name is Matthew Lin, an MBA [...]
Martin has put together a nice synthesis of thinking about weblogs and knowledge worker productivity.
Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing.
In case you wonder what to read this weekend: Martin Roell published 0.9 version of the paper for his BlogTalk presentation - Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and [...]
There’s been a running debate around the notion of personal knowledge management. See the recent posts by Nancy White, Roland Tanglao’s excellent coverage of the recent BlogTalk 2.0 sessions (here and here), and any of Denham’s recent posts on the subject. Denham has consistently argued that the notion is a dry hole and that [...]
This is a big powerpoint file. On the other, and more important, hand it contains some fascinating ruminations about what some key trends in performance improvement in storage technology and network speeds portend for us as knowledge workers and inhabitants of a digital world. Jim Gray is one of the supersmart folks at Microsoft Research [...]
This is a classic and largely familiar story of user center designed from the field of architecture. It had never occurred to me to make this very natural connection to blogs and blogging in the organization. Now that someone else has, however, I expect to use the analogy routinely (with all due credit recorded here).
Thank [...]
