Sunday, July 21, 2002
Blunt Force Trauma: Traction vs. Radio -- A Personal View. "The e-mail interface is something Radio badly needs. The more ways you can get data into, and out of, a KM system the more likely everyone is to use it. The ability to easily e-mail log summaries, as well as accept and route incoming e-mail posts, is a very nice feature." Agree. I'm running community server behind the firewall and for some business users it's very important to be connected via email. Although, there are some tools like news2email and the ability to mail to category that allow you to do that.
"There is one other broad philosophical issue: Traction seems built for a top-down, hierarchal, controlled access system -- precisely what you would expect from a CIA software project. Radio is much more a bottom-up package -- a grass roots, revolutionary, damn-the-IT department sort of thing that people can get excited about, have fun with, proselytize. Can you imagine anyone but a CIO or IT-geek proselytizing the densely woven fabric of Traction?" Right to the point. I'm all in favor of bottom-up approach, but it seems like the most practical approach is somewhere inbetween: company will benefit from using both, top-down and bottom-up systems, they just have to be well-connected.
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Copyright (C) 2002 Paul Kulchenko
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:29:19 PM
