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Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
Reports of the death of RSS at the hands of Twitter are exaggerated, though they contain a grain of truth. Here's why I think we are yet to see its real value in the enterprise. read full post
Getting started with enterprise social networking
Notes and slides from a talk I gave at Online Information 2008 in London about how companies are starting to adopt internal social networking as a serious business tool, and some tips on how to get started. read full post
SNA tools: what are we measuring?
SNA tools have a certain allure, since they sound logical; but the problem is the data we have to feed them. Email and Document stores are not enough to produce a real picture of organisational networks. We need first to create the myriad of weak signals that can allow online social networks to develop before we can hope to derive actionable intelligence. read full post
Humanising the Enterprise through Ambient Social Knowledge
The solution to information overload is more information, combined with a looser, more intuitive approach to processing it. People make decisions by matching patterns based on a variety of inputs. Ambient knowledge may actually be more effective for decision making in companies than the codified mono-directional memo, email, and task assignment culture. read full post
Peripheral vision and ambient knowledge
Dave Snowden talks about how we make sense through pattern matching rather than linear analysis. Social software can support this process by improving our peripheral vision and helping us organise our own eco-system of links, cues and sources to improve our sense making and decision making ability. My own presentation, linked from the piece, describes how we can go about achieving this. read full post
Social Software as a force multiplier for existing corporate systems
Adopting social software in the enterprise does mean throwing out other systems; in fact, it can bring them to life by layering on user-generated metadata to recombine existing data in new, more flexible ways read full post
Mind your language
'Knowledge sharing' doesn't mean anything to most people. 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
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
Social Tools for the Enterprise Symposium
Social Tools for the Enterprise Symposium, London, July 12, 2004 read full post
From content to connectivity; corporate to personal
knowledge is stored in social structures and networks rather than databases read full post
The fallacy of measurement
Measuring perrformance of knowledge workers, from CEOs down to the shop floor more often than not results in people simply 'gaming' the system read full post
KM in law firms
Managing knowledge within law firms is a notoriously difficult process, despite being a key area of value creation for modern practices, as Joy London's blog points out. read full post
Knowledge Organization Systems
Some heavy academic reading on Knowledge Organisation Systems read full post
Pollard's principles of KM
Dave Pollard sets out some useful, practical KM principles read full post
Knowledge stock vs knowledge flows
Eastern and western ideas about KM contrasted: maximising stock vs optimising flows read full post
Sketching out Personal knowledge management tools
Dave Pollard writes about thinking around the question of personal knowledge management and what this might look like read full post
Knowledge augmentation methods
Denham Grey looks at different methods of knowledge augmentation (jargon alert!) read full post
Knowledge Management is not about publishing
EEK on a Harvard Business review piece about knowledge management and profiling read full post
London Business Support Network knowledge centre wins best intranet award
The London Business Support Network Knowledge Centre last week won the Best Intranet or Extranet Project category of the International Information Industry Awards 2003 read full post
CIO magazine KM tips
Some useful corporate KM tips - but fails to mention some of the more informal tools and techniques that can break down barriers to participation read full post
Knowledge management strategy "is easy"
Denham Grey looks back over KM developments and asks whether KM strategy is easier than we think read full post
CIOs wake up and smell the coffee
"We all know somebody in our organization who knows everything that's going on. "Just ask Sally. She'll know." There's always a Sally, and those are the people who become the bloggers." read full post
KM Europe 2003
KM Europe 2003 took place last week - here are some notes, reflections and links to presentations read full post
KM Europe 2003: Jean-Marc David (Renault)
presentation about Renault's approach to KM in support of technical knowledge domains read full post
KM Europe 2003: Sam Marshall (Unilever)
Sam Marshall on Unilever's practical approach to managing a balanced KM programme read full post
KM Europe 2003: Verna Allee
Notes on Verna Allee's presentation about knowledge and value networks read full post
The Future of Knowledge Management?
Dave Pollard's new paper on the future direction of KM read full post
The TAO of Topic Maps
Topic maps are an ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources read full post
KM Europe
A good line up for KM Europe - we will be there for the first two days read full post
Welcome to the TechKnowledgy department
Dave Pollard continues thinking about a TechKnolwedgy department that combines KM and IT read full post
Where did KM as corporate memory go wrong?
Great piece about the failings of KM as corporate memory from Denham Grey read full post
Denham Grey
"How do you slice and dice the many KM related technologies and tools?" read full post
Supporting joined-up knowledge sharing
The NIMHE knowledge community was specified collaboratively with key mental health stakeholders and developed in accordance with Semantic Web principles. read full post
Conversations with Dina on knowledge sharing
Conversations with Dina is an interesting read read full post
Divergent approaches to KM: managing content vs connecting people
Should KM focus on storing, sharing and re-using objects or on connecting people in context to share experience directly? read full post
Self-representation and social networking software
David Pollard argues that each of us should be able to map our knowledge and our relationships in our own way read full post
Knowledge management for front-line staff
This article looks at the way front-line staff operate, and how knowledge management can be used to meet their needs. read full post
Useful Knowledge Management biblio and glossary
Useful KM links, bibliograhy and glossary read full post
Weblogging for knowledge mobilisation
links to posts about using weblogs for knowledge sharing read full post
K-Logging: Supporting KM with Web Logs
good piece on use of weblogging to support organisational knowledge sharing read full post
Mapping relationships the key to knowledge management?
John McDowall asks whether mapping relationships is the next big step forward in knowledge management read full post
CI: one acronym - two opposing world views
Is Competitive Intelligence really a sensible approach to knowledge management in the Internet age, or does the concept of Cooperative Intelligence promise greater rewards? read full post
Three good links from elearnspace
Elearnspace posts three good links today: 1 about the nature of knowledge, 2 about ontology portals read full post
KMpings
KMPings - an auto-generated KM directory from trackback pings read full post
Ground-up online community development
We are currently engaged in a very interesting project to help define and specify a knowledge community for a highly federal, networked organisation read full post
