Translucency and selective disclosure. One of the delightful things about the blogosphere is the way that it converges on truth. An acquaintance of mine, Bruce Epstein, has for some years been evangelizing something he calls OpenData which envisions a world of user-contributed self-correcting databases. ... [Jon's Radio]

4:06:05 PM    

Threatening technologies.

An interesting discussion on the Grooveforums about the question if Groove can be blocked completely.  Phil Stanhope responds :

The real question remains: Why are the employees of your firm seeking to improve communications with external business partners? 
If you believe that this is, not in fact the use case in your firm, then you've got a signicantly more difficult problem. Any technology that can be used easily and is readily available threatens your corporate integrity: telephone, fax, WiFi, HTTP POST, WebDAV, CDRW, 1394, USB, Serial and Parallel ports, printers, copy machines, and scanners to name a few. Then there's the plain old analog p2p (people-to-people) problem. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]

1:55:15 PM    

Stephen Dulaney applies Indicators of Social Capital to Web Logs.

1. Levels of giving (blog ecossystem) reflects people's propensity to give to others when they themselves may not directly benefit. The economy of giving links.
2. Participation and engagement (What we do when we blog Meg Hourihan) gauge of people's involvement in a range of groups and associations, both formal and informal. Ray Ozzie adds a nice contribution to "Why we Blog"
3. Reciprocity within the community (everybodyblogit) is the measure to which people can rely on their community to help in times of need. How to Start a Weblog (For Professinal Journalists)
4. Generalized trust that people have in other individuals and groups, and how safe they feel in their daily interactions with others.
5. Trust towards public officials and institutions or the measure of people's confidence in the institutions of society.
6. Social Norms (Lessig) the rules, belief, morals and habits that regulate behaviour.
7. Attitudinal variables (blogtree) important to social capital or individuals' belief about themselves, their place, and their tolerance of others, levels of acceptance, motivations and sense of connectedness.
8. Confidence in the continuation of social and political relationships for the future.

This list is from the work titled Framework for the measurment of Social Capital in New Zealand which was prepared by Anne Spellerberg and assisted by the social capital programme team. page 16 of the (link to pdf found here)

Do these apply to an Intranet klogging cluster?

I'm sure they do, with a few differences.

1. More klogger than blogger. Kloggers are also members of the large, amorphous population of blogspace. As people are socialized first into a local klogspace, this outside affiliation may be lessened.
    
2. Colleagues first. Second, you define your focus of attention by your work more than your passions and curiousity. Your formal affilliations (your chain of command, your team, your stakeholders) and informal ones (your office network, ad hoc teams) fill your days, and your klogs.  
    
3. Work cultures. Social capital within an enterprise is strongly flavored by personality, policy, institutional memory (institutional rumor?), regional culture, and occupational culture.
    
4. Personal fences. Do you keep your social circles apart? Many people take care about mixing work, family, friends, politics, and faith. Do you want your bondage master, your bowling team, and your quality circle to know about each other through you? when people at work see your personal blogs, how does that affect your working relationships? This visibility biases what people write.  
    
5. Intellectual property. Work is more a Free Agent Nation than ever. Portability of knowledge and experience is a career asset. Most employers claim that everything employees write using company IT gear is the employer's property. This creates a conflict of interest.  

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1:41:14 PM    

• Knowledge sharing is a two-way phenomenon
• Ozzie on tools for knowledge work
• Knowledge sharing and understanding knowledge work

12:18:24 PM    

Intensity. From my post-grad-school advice about how to survive grad school: Academia clings strongly to the Romantic ideal of the obsessed, driven achiever. Plenty of academics sneer at "dilettantes," believing that anything worth doing is worth consuming an entire life to... [Caveat Lector]

12:12:42 PM