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 Purple cows and further connections
Phil Wolff points to In Praise of the Purple Cow, which is about standing out of the crowd and marketing. This book is written by Seth Godin (he wrote Unleashing the Ideavirus too). Seth gives a summary: This is quite in-line with The Tipping Point that I'm reading. BTW, this summary by Robert Paterson will save me a lot of time as now I'm not going to write it myself. Something that triggers me currently: Connectors, mavens, and salesmen make it possible for innovations to connect with the early adopters. They are translators: they make ideas and information from a highly specialized world and translate them into a language the rest of us can understand. They drop extraneous details and exaggerate other details so that the message itself acquires a deeper meaning. So, next to the things I have to do for my work I want to connect these pieces with change management and then apply them to "KM introduction" case. More on: change innovation networking
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Matching?
So let me bring this back to a few of my themes: More on: blogs networking
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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
New blog is born
Here as part exploratory and as part of our KM research program I will be keeping a blog and asking my colleagues and others to come in and comment on it's use for commercial companies employees - our main purpose is to assess is this a tool by which we can share knowledge. 10 years ago I was skeptical about whether we could apply CoPs within industry and now after riding high on our success with them, this is yet another KM process to explore - I'll get to other explorations later in my blog i.e. yellow pages, knowledge bases, capturing what we know etc etc. I'm reading The Tipping Point and I'm thinking about something similar: will blogs make it from early adopters to majority? More on: blog new
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Open and free global registry of doctoral dissertations in progress
PhdData. Still being developed, PhdData intends to be an open and free global registry of doctoral dissertations in progress. By Daniel Vainstub, January 26, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] More on: PhD
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Categorizing weblog usage
Dale Pike [Stand Up Eight] is back, moving to MT and categorizing weblog usage. He says that posts "fall (roughly) into the following categories" and gives anologies:
See also for iCalendar and RSS for course calendars More on: blogs blogs in business
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Monday, January 27, 2003|
TeamBlogging experiences
Cindy and Olaf share their experiences of TeamBlogging using Blogger and ask about other tools that they could use. More on: blogs
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Who knows what you know
Reasons to blog... [a klog apart] John Satta, taken out of context:It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows what YOU know More on: knowledge networker
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Not in my PhD...
Have you ever seen a child take apart a favourite toy? Did you then see the little one cry after realizing he could put all the pieces back together again? Well, here is a secret that never maker the headlines: We have taken apart the universe and have no idea how to put it back together. After spending trillions of research dollars to disassemble nature in the last century, we are just now acknowledging that we have no clue how to continue - except to take it apart further. [Linked: The New Science of Networks, p.6] For me it's still difficult to define exactly what I want with my PhD, but this is exactly what I don't want. More on: research
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Friday, January 24, 2003|
Presentation Persisting and Surviving the Journal Review Process [PhDweblogs] |
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Blogs vs Chat and Bulletin Boards
Chat and Bulletin Boards vs Blogs via [thomas n. burg | randgänge]
See also Blogs vs Message Boards [andersja's blog] More on: blogs
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Articles on wikis
"Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website" [Seb's Open Research]
One of the first serious articles on wikis that isn't on a wiki (a previous one was The Reengineering Wiki (pdf)). , by susning.nu founder Lars Aronsson. Abstract:
(via Peter Suber) More on: wiki
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German and Swiss week at the Knowledge Board
German and Swiss Week: 27.01.-31.01.03 at the Knowledge Board:
Probably not for me (I don't know German), but for many others... More on: learning event
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More research questions about blogs
Olaf Brugman comments to the emergent KM research proposal emergent KM research proposal asking about research of weblogs (bold is mine): I hope the research could contribute to: More on: blog research
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Things to catch
Some of recent posts to catch:
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Cross-border knowledge sharing is power
Jim McGee in Managing for shared awareness about Enterprise Effectiveness Interesting thinking about what lessons are to be learned from the military about sharing information in real-time or near real-time: And Stephen Downes about Napsterize Your Knowledge: Give To Receive (here) The primary lesson: "The more that a company shares its knowledge, the more valuable it becomes." It's astonishing how many people still don't believe this. But when I look back at the success my website and OLDaily have brought me - despite my lack of any obvious qualifications in the field - it is self evidently true. When you share your knowledge, you share your ability, and this is what makes you or your company more valuable. People prefer to hire or contract for services based on proven ability nearly every time. Moreoever, the more you share, the more people share in return (many of the items in OLDaily are the result of submissions from readers), which increases your personal or corporate knowledge base. Anyhow, this article discusses some of the benefits of sharing knowledge and then offers some advice on how to do it. I wonder if someone does research with large companies about cross-border knolwedge sharing? I believe in its power, but it would be nice to have more arguments to convince others. Later: more in Sharing vs. hoarding knowledge by Jim McGee More on: knowledge sharing
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Technology anthropologists
Jim McGee in Doing anthropology cites Ernie the Attorney's post about technology anthropologists (bold is mine) Anyway, I sometimes find myself observing people as they interact with technology as an anthropologist would observe, say, gorilla behavior. Now, I don't mean that I think that I'm somehow superior to others and I therefor see them as apes. What I mean is that I am fascinated by how the rapid intrusion of technology into our lives has forced us to grapple with strange tools. The gap between the capabilities of the tools and our understanding of how to best make use of them is somewhat akin to the gap between two closely related species. And comments: Ernie is on to a nice meme here. Another term to throw into the mix is "ethnography." While usually associated with doing anthropology in the field, it's also become a legitimate research tool in organizational settings. I find an anthropological approach particularly useful in the realm of technology for a couple of reasons. First, technology is too dynamic for a lot of other research approaches. Along a similar line, organizational research is not a place where you get to do controlled experiments. It's either impractical or unethical (sometimes both). That leaves you with observational techniques of one sort or another. One advantage of ethnographic/anthropological approaches is that they explicitly recognize that the anthropologist/observer is part of the system. More on: research
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Thursday, January 23, 2003|
Connecting KM research and practice
[after last two posts] What do you need to connect KM research and practice? Get more KM researchers blogging about their work. Get them writing on-line in small pieces and easy-to-read language. I'm close to consider this as my personal challenge :) More on: research and practice
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Distributed KM
Italian research project: enabling distributed and autonomous management of knowledge The aim of this project is to develop research in information technology and software tools that support the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge. The goal will be achieved by: While it may sound too traditional or technical, the ideas behind are really in-line blogging as an emerging network of independent knowledge nodes. Check this site for project publications, related works and PhD positions (e.g. social models for distributed networks :) I'm reading a couple of papers from there, so more will follow. More on: DKM
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On-line scientific publications and blogs
Recent editorial of Information Research journal (bold is mine): A couple of issues ago I asked readers whether or not they knew of any work on the 'half-life' of electronic journal papers versus that of print journal papers. I received a helpful e-mail message pointing me to Steve Lawrence's paper in Nature in 2001. Lawrence looked at papers in computer science and related fields and found:Then there is a small piece about Weblogging Multiplier Effect and a conclusion for scientific writer: The crafty author, then, can pretty well ensure some take up by cultivating a friendly blogger and letting him/her know when a paper has been published - off round the network the news goes and, before you know it, you are on the best-seller list. And finally: Perhaps we'll see the day when a Blog Impact Factor (BIF) is required of all candidates for tenure or promotion. See also for a list of most popular articles. More on: blog research networking
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B-blogs
Meet the B-Blog [via Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
One more link to add to my Klognet links collection. More on: blogs in business
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More
A follow up for Manila for school districts and Russian dreams Actually I am not sure if Frontier / Manila can handle foreign language characters. Does anybody know?[Seblogging News] Something I checked with try-out version of Manila: it can't handle Cyrillic. I expect that this in encoding problem, so those languages that use non-default encoding are most likely not supported. Another addition: News aggregator in Radio doesn't support RSS feeds in Cyrillic (they get encoded into something not readable, the same as posts in Radio/Manila). So, does UserLand want markets in countries writing differently? |
Tuesday, January 21, 2003|
More about knowledge sharing
George Siemens in Knowledge sharing Environment: Some components needed in a well-crafted environment suitable for knowledge sharing: Commenting Denham Grey suggests to "inquire what sharing knowledge really means" and points to wiki about knowledge sharing. More on: knowledge sharing
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Formal/informal interplay (2)
George Siemens reflects in Effort in the right place?: ...is learning best achieved through structure (created by those who define what a learner needs to learn) or through environment (fostered by an organization, but created by the learner)? I would rather use formal and informal learning as those terms are better to catch the core difference between structure and environment: the issue of primary control over learning process. [Context: definitions+references, comparison between two forms, supporting informal learning] Based on adult learning theories I assume that we may need both types at the same time:
E.g. you would most likely want a pilot or surgeon who combined structured training with years of informal learning experiences. As I already wrote I believe in interplay between those two forms: any structured intervention should be focused on releasing energy of learner and providing just enough focus and support to get though a learning experience. I also believe that people are smart enough to learn themselves :))) More on: learning learning informal
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Distributed network of interacting knowledge workers
Stephen Downes reviews Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems: [...]Extracted and summarized, the advice offered by these authors is as old as the hills: I share the feeling and I'll try to make sure that my PhD contributes to understanding of knowledge networkers. More on: knowledge networker
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Lessons in Community-Building: An Inquiry into Role of Weblogs in Online Communities
Both my aggregator and Knowledge Board discussion bring new "blog research" name: Nurul Asyikin needs help in her study: Tentatively entitled Lessons in Community-Building: An Inquiry into Role of Weblogs in Online Communities, my thesis will focus on two matters: how webloggers perceive the concept of virtual community, and the effects of technical and design factors on the development of virtual communities. |
Monday, January 20, 2003|
Subtle way to encourage: lesson from user interface
Fly UI [via Technorati list of Blogdex Top 10]: a little story about simple and gentle way to "invite" people doing what you want them to do. Nice to read and think what we, KM people, can do to "encourage, in a very subtle way, good aim" in our field :) More on: usability
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Friday, January 17, 2003|
Manila for school districts and Russian dreams
Pat Delaney shares A proposal for school district deployment of a CMS [via Sebastian Fiedler] Great example for those who want to start. It includes:
I have to check if Manila supports Cyrillic (Radio doesn't :(. If so I have a great idea in mind: my monther is school principal in Russia... Yesterday I searched for blogs in .ru and found out that blogging is taking off in my own country, but more in the "personal diary format" rather than in "k-logging format". I really want to introduce blogging to Russian professionals and I have ideas for several projects in mind. Now it's a matter of time and finding tools that will work in Russian. More on: introducing blogs Russia
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Thursday, January 16, 2003|
Webinar: Making Boundaryless Organizations a Reality
On 23 January Saba hosts another free webinar of Human Capital Live! series - Making Boundaryless Organizations a Reality: Human Tools to Match the Technical Capabilities of the Extended Enterprise by Ron Ashkenas Making Boundaryless Organizations a Reality: Human Tools to Match the Technical Capabilities of the Extended Enterprise Organizations are increasingly becoming "ecosystems" of suppliers, partners, customers, and other allies, working together across boundaries to create value based on core competences. Cross-boundary collaboration is greatly enhanced by technologies that support virtual work--but the human dimension of such collaborations often lags behind. In this program, author and consultant Ron Ashkenas discusses "human tools" that his practice has successfully employed to address the gap between people and technology in so-called "boundaryless work". Ron will draw from case examples of his pathbreaking work at General Electric and other major corporations.Signing and participation is free, so most likely I will join. More on: learning event
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003|
Blogging e-mail
Ross Mayfield comes with Email Signature Convention: I got sick and tired of clarifying if the contents of email I send are public or not. This question is a natural when you are in blogspace. So I added the following line to my email signature: More on: blogging etiquette
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New blog is born: the NGO Knowledge Map
Olaf Brugman starts Experiment: Weblogs to expand NGO knowledge capturing with his own blog the NGO Knowledge Map. He invites others to join, reflects on the first experiences and involves others in the discussion. More on: blog new
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Tuesday, January 14, 2003|
Back to life
Finally I'm back to blogging. I went on vacation with Radio running at home, but something went wrong and I wasn't able to access it. I had more than free weeks off :) My main news so far: - New Mathemagenic got ranked higher than old Mathemaganic in Google - I made my choice of PDA and I'm happy to play with my new NEC MobilePro 300e. So far I installed Pocket Blog by Bryce Yehl and I'm looking forward to try it on the move. - I'm back to thinking about blog pilot: more will follow soon. - Finally I've got books from Amazon, so now it's very difficult to make choices which one I should read first:
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This weblog is my learning diary. Sometimes I write about things related to my work, but the views expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Last update: 6/23/2005; 11:49:09 AM.
