Monday, January 19, 2004

KM questions. * What exacly does sharing knowledge really mean? * What are the top 5 current issues in KM? * Which 3 KM technologies are hot and which are not? * What KM strategies yield the quickest returns with the lowest... [Knowledge-at-work] 9:53:28 AM

Friday, January 16, 2004

Nurturing & sustaining knowledge. If you ask what is needed to create knowledge, gather and evaluate insights, collect and synthesize new perspectives you are likely to be met with blank stares or stony silence in most KM spaces So what works for you? *... [Knowledge-at-work] 10:01:29 AM

Monday, December 22, 2003

intersection of knowledge management and blogging.... Back on 19 September 2003, Jim McGee referenced a post by Jon Udell on Kimbro Staken's new science experiment, Syncato. And now - actually twelve days ago - Silicon Valley Biz Ink published a press release - Sleepycat Software Honors XML Innovators. Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB announced results for the 2003 Berkeley DB XML Innovation Awards. XML technology consultant Kimbro Staken took the second place award for developing Syncato, a weblog or "blogging" application that combines an easy-to-use online personal idea log with advanced knowledge management and publishing capabilities. Staken's system stores each personal log as XML that can then be searched via XPath. "Syncato maximizes the value of people's ideas and information in blogs by making them easily searchable," said Staken. "Under the hood, the Syncato weblog system is a XML fragment management system that relies on the flexibility of Berkeley DB XML to store XML natively alongside non-XML and semi-structured data." [judith meskill's knowledge notes...] 8:42:18 AM

Friday, December 19, 2003

blosxoms, bryars and blikis.... Huh, you say? Well, blosxom is a lightweight weblog implementation, created by Rael Dornfest, that describes itself as "the zen of blogging." Simon Cosens' Bryar is a modular, extensible weblog tool - more complex than 'blosxom' - primarily in its extensibility. A Bliki, according to the 'Wikipedia' is quite simply, a weblog with wiki support. If you are still saying 'Huh', then skip Simon's article and just read his conclusion excerpted below. Otherwise, in O'Reilly's Perl.com, Simon Cozens writes about 'Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis.' - a worthy read for the 'Perl' and 'CGI' savvy. Simon concludes with: "I consider the emergence of interest in social software to be one of the most fascinating trends in software engineering this year. Two of the most powerful and popular aspects of this, wikis and blogs, are particularly well-suited for extension and embedding, and Perl is a particularly well-suited language for achieving this. Although part of the point of this article was to demonstrate Bryar, there were several other important points. First, that there are plenty of Perl implementations of both wikis and blogs that you can choose from; second, that Perl makes it really easy to create your own blog or wiki and customize to your own purposes, including embedding them in an existing application. But finally, the point was to encourage you to think about good design and the power of extensible applications; if you can create a tool that is both powerful and generalizable -- just like Perl itself -- it may end up doing wildly different things to what you initially intended!" [judith meskill's knowledge notes...] 12:03:22 PM

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

knowledge management by factiva.... In the 15 December 2003 issue of Computerworld Singapore, in 'Squeezing value from KM,' Melanie Liew writes that, according to Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva, "Knowledge Management (KM) is an all encompassing approach to harnessing the knowledge within an organisation, from capturing it to ­sharing it. It is predicated on existing organisational intelligence, the organisational culture and the platform that is in place." ...quote... Said Factiva's Hart, "The decision-making process toward the adoption of what is called a knowledge and information management system increasingly takes place in four phases. Phase one comprises an enterprise information audit. What information does a company have? What does it need? This applies to both internal and external information. Archived internal white papers and sales documents are as important as wider external news." Phase two is where the taxonomy is applied. A common language is required to enable the integration of internal and external data – structured and unstructured. This must reflect a company's culture and fit with the existing organisational vocabulary. Phase three is where the technology is finally deployed, built to fit the company that it is designed for. Phase four sees this technology 'cut to fit' the organisation's culture and built to evolve with the direction this company wants to head. In fact, KM technology is expected to get smarter and easier to use. Based on information supplied about the user and the technology's own intelligence, KM technology is increasingly basing its results on who the user is, what information users have volunteered about themselves, with built-in collaborative filtering to delivering the information that the worker needs efficiently and effectively. ...quote... [judith meskill's knowledge notes...] 9:58:39 AM

Sunday, December 14, 2003

Web Assistant - a KE tool. For the past two years I've been using Web Assistant - a complex knowledge space that spans the spectrum from personal publishing to community collaboration. - a true knowledge ecology (KE) Personal publishing: Most of the key affordances for personal... [Knowledge-at-work] 8:42:54 AM

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Stuart Henshall. Stuart Henshall is an expert in the use of new media technologies in the workplace. His current obsessions are social networking tools, social software, blogging, wikis, and the revolution taking place around voice communications. I have only recently made the acquaintance with Stuart thanks to a truly creative and well thought out idea he had built around the availability of Skype as an immediate and easy-to-use-mean to interact with other, like-minded people. Sprung by curiosity I contacted him and found him to be a truly fascinating character. Stuart has strong point of views and truly rides ahead of the majority... [Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings] 8:40:05 AM

Friday, December 12, 2003

"Instead of trying to cram a centralized knowledge management system down everyone's throat, you focus on helping individuals and teams do their own work more easily and more effectively. If you give some thought to how you design and shape the environment, the benefits of knowledge management sought by vendors of solutions in search of problems will emerge from the work itself. " -- Comment from Jim McGee regarding the combination of weblogs and wikis 3:49:10 PM