it ain't easy to get and order knowledge. Motivation is the key. Just ask KM pioneer Tomás de Torquemada, the first to combine the rack, thumbscrews, foot roasting and suffocation to get subjects to talk. You'd better have formal authority, claim KM regulars. They are wrong. Weblogs are critical to knowledge management success because people own their own knowledge.
It's also why they'll fight an uphill battle in most organizations; they don't fit in with anyone's power agenda. Simple and elegant doesn't help someone advance their organizational agenda. It also makes it more difficult to justify lots of technology consulting help.
Implementing k-logs can benefit from outside help. But the help needs to focus on nurturing the development of new work practices and voice. It must be oriented toward organizational behavior not technology features.
The entry costs are minimal. Where k-logs are likely to face the greatest risk is in the transition from new toy to routine practice. There will be a hump that individual k-loggers and organizations will need to get over. That is what will take energy and attention from whoever chooses to champion the idea in the organization. [parsed from postings by a klog apart & McGee's Musings]
The most successful virus spreads with a simple but pervasive set of conditions. Hegel said something like "the history of man is the history of God becoming aware of his own existence." I think the political history of mankind is the history of power becoming decentralized as information becomes more difficult to control.
