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Hello kind readers. I have been thinking that I'd like to "freshen up" my blog, but I don't have a whole lot of energy to make a big update.
Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.
I have been reading Lilia Efimova's PhD thesis, and the second half is as good as the first. And just as familiar for long-time readers of her blog.
A podcast of a breakthrough moment on the value of blogging and Web 2.0 for the president of a business.
I have been reading Lilia Efimova's PhD thesis, Passion at Work: Blogging Practices of Knowledge Workers, and the words feel very familiar.
A little more about blog syndication when it comes to a service like Newstex.
Well, not quite an easter egg of the hidden keystroke variety, but I did find something I wasn't expecting when I reinstalled Office 2007 on my computer.
I came across a new blog recently by Dr. Ron Lasky of Indium Corporation, named simply Dr. Lasky's Blog. While his expertise and background is in the electronics and electronic materials area, he also has an interest in Theory of Constraints.
I had the great pleasure of previewing one of Lilia Efimova's papers - maybe her PhD proposal - about five years ago. And now I get the chance to do it again
Blogs aren't the only place conversations happen anymore. Have a look around and pick the right tools for you.
Lilia Efimova, Sebastian Fiedler and Ton Zijlstra have announced that they are formally closing the BlogWalk series. I hosted one event in the midst of a blizzard in Chicago.
Typealyzer says that this blog appears to be of the Myer-Briggs type INTJ.
James Dellow of Chieftech has asked me (and some others) How do I decide what to blog about?
Matthew Cornell, who I know from his blog on personal productivity, asked a question on LinkedIn, which showed up in my mailbox. "Are blogs dead? Should they be replaced by Twitter, Flickr, & Facebook?"
Doug Cornelius asked me to participate in the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008, (held in Boston). Here are my notes from the morning sessions - I went back to work in the afternoon.
Pumacy Technologies AG are doing a study of Knowledge Management Blogs. This particular report provides a ranking of 50+ blogs in the KM arena for the month of August 2008.
My friend, Lilia Efimova is wrapping up her PhD thesis work on the subject of blogging and has a nice summary of a number of "Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits."
An Australian researcher is looking for fellow Aussies who read blogs but do not blog themselves.
Christina Pikas has been live blogging the NC Science Blogging Conference. Interesting stuff.
Craig Roth has some interesting thoughts in Why Do We Care About Top 10 Lists?. I particularly like his setup of the idea of a "permanent Top 10 filter" and his description of the value behind social filtering.
Stowe Boyd has just given me about the best description of why I like blogs in comparison to wikis. In blogs the author shines through. In wikis, nothing human shines through.
A friend of mine is working with Marilyn Martin on a few projects. He pointed me to her interesting hand-drawn graphics at Rather Graphic.
I spoke today on the Blogs and Wikis in the Corporate World panel at ASIST. My topic was one of my favorites, around how blogs can support formation and maintenance of communities. Slides available.
John Tropea has followed his list of 20 blogs with "Blog network as your social filter" where he says he really doesn't need to know what blogs I read. Rather, with several good social filters, it is fairly easy to get a good picture of what is happening in any given topic area.
John Tropea has given us his list of 20 blogs I'm currently enjoying and encourages the people on his list to do the same. So, here we go - I managed 18.
Chris Garrett has a nice list of suggested ways to use blogs as a piece of the project management communication puzzle.
Noreen Kelly pointed me to Bly's Theory of Blogging: "Personal productivity is inversely proportional to time spent blogging."
The incredibly prolific Chris Brogan gives some hints as to how he does it, and he encourages anyone else as well with "100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write."
Another set of LinkedIn Questions, but I don't think I am going to continue this process on a regular basis.
Priscilla Palmer has started a massive List of bloggers who write on Personal Development. I've been included as well as ~200 others who write in this space.
Interesting article on "GTD for Bloggers: The Art of Stress-free Blogging" from Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily. He leaves out "reading blogs" in his list of work, and I suggest some additions to deal with that.
Anjo Anjewierden has a beautiful post, where he describes Weblog data as art with the image here.
People who have been following my blog for a while have probably seen me reference Brandon Wirtz' thought that Blogs are just a front porch. I like this particular analogy enough that I tossed it out as a topic at the BlogHer unconference.
Does knowing who reads your blog change what you say and how you say it? Do you censor what you say because you don't want your readership (or potential readers) to learn something or to be offende...
My thoughts and comments for the BlogHer sessions on Saturday, July 28th.
Some of my reaction to the first day of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago.
Apparently KM has their latest information on corporate blogging in a video interview.
Prof David Wyld has published "The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0." This is a review based on my skim through the report.
Matt Hodgson had some interesting thoughts on "Meeting needs - why social computing works." He wrote in reaction to another blog posting, which nearly illustrates the point.
Several weeks ago, a friend forwarded me the links to two Toby Redshaw (CVP of IT Strategy at Motorola) interviews with Dan Bricklin. Redshaw has rolled out blogs and wikis at Motorola, and the discussion of their impact has me recalling the history of knowledge management.
C. G. Lynch at CIO.com has Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog from the just-completed Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Dennis McDonald is looking to survey people who are using blogs to support their project management work, either as the sole tool or in conjunction with other PM tools.
Just to be clear that Director Magazine is completely negative on blogging, here is an article in the May 2007 issue, Strategic business blogging by Matthew Stibbe.
A friend pointed me to "Blame and Shame" in the June 2006 Director Magazine. I didn't find anything particularly new in the article, but my friend pointed out the complete slant toward "corporate blogs are dangerous" is an overblown stance.
For those that have been following my blog for at least three months, you'll know that I've had my students reading blogs and keeping their own. Here is a summary of that experience.
Andy Roberts links to a discussion by Miguel Cornejo Castro. Essentially, the question is whether blogs build or tear apart other online communities (listservs, online forums, etc.). The answer: it depends.
A friend, who is considering a blog, pointed me to this rather negative article "The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings From Leading Bloggers." Nothing terribly shocking from my perspective.
Ghost blogging - the process of writing a blog in someone else's place - is just not right.
About three years ago, I had an interesting email and phone conversation with Bill Ives, who found me through this blog. A few weeks later (four years ago, as it turns out), Bill launched his blog, Portals and KM, and it is still going strong.
Lee Lefever has posted video in which he explains "what is RSS" with stick figures and an entertaining style. The short form: RSS helps you turn around the arrows.

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