Recently I promised to write about connecting existing community and weblogs using Knowledge Board case. I have been thinking about it since starting KnowledgeBoard blogroll…
Problem description in more detail: Ton Zijlstra after his contribution to the KnowledgeBoard went down because of blogging (scroll here)
What I would like is to re-start contributing to KnowledgeBoard but I am not looking forward to putting in double the time to keep up with both blogging and KnowledgeBoard, especially because there is overlap in topics and readership.
Is it a useful addition to be able to ping KnowledgeBoard with relevant blog-entries, and then have them incorporated into the KnowledgeBoard, with a link to the originating blog? That is taking this blogroll one step further, namely to provide KnowledgeBoard not only with the links to more content on KM, but also with the content itself. Making it searchable within KB would be nice too.
It would be nice if Knowledge Board allowed each member to create a weblog, but I don’t think it’s feasible: it would require too much resources to develop and to maintain. So I’m thinking about simple ways to integrate existing infrastructure and blogging.
*** do it right now, ** do when there are enough resources, * dreaming :)
Make Knowledge Board content accessible via RSS
Add RSS feeds to
Support KnowledgeBoard blogroll
- *** Make special URL for it
- ** Aggregate KM-related blogs (at least something like “15 recent posts”, but better by topic)
- ** Support search across weblogs in the list ** (could be done by third-party tools, but I couldn’t make it work :(
- * Create an infrastructure to submit weblogs (e.g. a field in member profile) that automatically lists and aggregates them
Connect Knowledge Board with KM-related weblogs
- *** Have “view RSS” code on the server and make it easy to include into exiting pages
- The code should display recent RSS items without publishing a page!
- Uses: pages with aggregated news from KM sources/weblogs (including personal profiles – check my blog posts as part of my KnowdgeBoard profile)
- ** Make all articles/discussion TrackBack-enabled
Any other suggestions?
Tags: community straddling, KnowledgeBoard, media competitionArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/01/22.html#a935; comments are here.
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