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The grassroots are where knowledge management must begin

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 [...]

The Personal Petabyte, The Exnterprise Exabyte from Jim Gray

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 [...]

Corporate Blogging - Blogs as Paths in Open Spaces

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 [...]

Can You Blog the Blog?

This has been bouncing around in my aggregator for a few days. Who knows what notions of intelletual property I’m skirting, but I want to keep the handy for future reference.
Can You Blog the Blog?.
Dina Mehta takes a break from her break to pass on this comic originally posted by Jan Karlsbjerg:

Hmmm, a great prelude [...]

Personal knowledge management in KM Magazine

I’m convinced that Lilia never sleeps. She had this posted within minutes of the material being available and there’s no way I can possible keep up with the wealth of great material she’s been posting lately.
Anyway, this was a fun exercise and the result contains some useful nuggest and insights. Now that it’s out, I’ll [...]

Dave Pollard on Blog Functionality

Dave Pollard has put together his cut at what blogging tools ought to be able to do from an average user perspective. While Dave is anything but an average blogger, this is an interesting line of thought.

Everyone has their own specifications for what they’d like blogs to do. Advanced users, comfortable with the technology and [...]

George Siemens on the Art of Blogging

Nice introductory presentation from George Siemens.
MADLaT Blogging Presentation.
I just finished a presentation at MADLaT on The Art of Blogging.
[elearnspace]

Organisational Story-Telling

Steve Denning did some excellent work using stories to drive change when he was at the World Bank. Here’s a pointer to an interview with Denning summarizing his key arguments about the role and value of story in driving organizational change. If this catches your fancy, you may want to look at Denning’s book, The [...]

Research on technology impact out of HP

One of the risks of following bright folks like Lilia is that you end up with all sorts of interesting and intriguing things for your reading list.
HP: How to search a social network, Finding Communities in Linear Time. Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace and more papers from HP Information Dynamics Lab.
It’s always like [...]

New York Times on Knowledge Management

Lots of people have been pointing to this or sending me links to go look. What I found most intriguing is its implicit decision to approach knowledge management from the perspective of personal knowledge management. It simply takes as a given that the primary object of knowledge management is to assist knowledge workers in organizing [...]