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September 2004 Archives
The technology trap
Dave Wilcox applies the technology trap - believing new stuff can fix old problems - to blogs. read full post
Conference: Exploiting Social Networking in Organizations
Dave Gurteen's 5th Annual Knowledge Conference will focus on Exploiting Social Networking in Organizations and I will be speaking about "Building Informal Knowledge-Sharing Networks using Social Software" (video preview available!) read full post
Web services: towards the network computer
Early implementations of connected social software offer a glimpse into a future of distributed applications and web services that might free us from the limits of desktop operating systems. read full post
Pasta: online post-it notes
Pasta from Maciej read full post
The BlogTalk 4 Window Wiki
Transcription of the BlogWalk 4 Window Wiki. read full post
BlogWalk 4: Social Software in Organisations - Inside the Firewall
BlogWalk 4 brought together a diverse group of London bloggers to talk about using social software in a business environment. read full post
Suw on Guardian Newsblog
The Guardian newsblog launches and links to Suw's piece about corporate blogging skills read full post
Mind your language
'Knowledge sharing' doesn't mean anything to most people. read full post
The importance of small talk
Small talk is valuable not only in purely social scenarios, but also in the workplace where it allows us to contextualise colleagues' behaviours and increase both number and quality of our social bonds. read full post
Intimacy gradients online
Applying architectural theory to online social spaces could make them far more comfortable places, if only we can figure out how best to do it. read full post
The writing process as a barrier to knowledge sharing
It's all well and good having the tools to share knowledge, but people with little confidence in their own writing ability are unlikely to use them. read full post
Blog syndication: Can't we do more with it?
Whether a blog feed is in RSS or Atom doesn't really matter. What's important is what we do with all this information. read full post
Organisational Culture and knowledge sharing
Understanding, and in some cases influencing organisational culture is an imporant requisite for effective knowledge sharing - it is also not something that conventional enterprise software does very well read full post
Looking for information
How do people find information? What sources do they prefer? And what are the implications for knowledge sharing applications? read full post
Online Social Networking 2004
Web conference for those interested in OSNs (or YASNs, if you're a bit more cynical). read full post
Building trust online
Online relationships can be hard to build and maintain and the difficulty in knowing who to trust, and how much to trust them, is one of the key reasons why. read full post
