I'm available for hire to analyze K-Log requirements, design solutions, facilitate deployment and ongoing evolution. ~ dws. |
 Radio Dreams: From Seb's Open Research to Alison Fish's Blogfish to Al Macintyre to Phil Wolff's a klog apart to [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ] (Al may have mixed up the precise path, by accident):
Alison Fish of Blogfish:
I suspect that beginning bloggers and kloggers are often inhibited..
If we set up a k-logging community for our company intranet, I suspect there will be an initial _hump_ of hesitation among the employees. Maybe having a few designated posters at the beginning would ease the transition. Must think on this.
Seb's Open Research:
Lessons learned from a large scale K-logging implementation.
- Most people don't like to write. We've had a difficult time designing interfaces that encourage adding information instead of just reading.
- There's no substitute for good, accessible writing. We have several people who write consistently for the system. The logs show that postings from one writer get far more attention and prompt far more linking than those from the other writers.
Al Macintyre's suggestions for preparing for a company intranet were posted Aug 26, and I can see that someone downstream has enhanced my ideas with links to additional aids.
Why don't people write?
 Fear.
Fear of failure.
Fear of criticism.
Fear of reprisal.
Fear of looking stupid.
Fear of being stupid.
Fear of permanence.
Fear of strangers.
Fear of invaded privacy.
Fear of falling behind.
Fear of the blank page.
Motive.
I'm thinking a lot about folks who haven't written a paragraph since high school. Folks who never got more than a C in English. Paralyzed by a blank sheet of paper. By permanence.
UNQUOTE [a klog apart] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]
To the list of fears I would add uncertainty about job security. The style of my writing might antagonize management sufficiently that they will start looking around for someone to replace me. We can be in a company in which with turnover a lot of relevant education and training in how to make the enterprise a success, just walked out the door in the head of the departing co-worker. However, if that knowledge could be captured in a k-log, the employee, doing the transplant from their brain to the k-log, might feel that the company has less need of having their brain around, so it might impair raises, and they not feel so bad about the person leaving.
In other forums I have suggested that we would all be much better off in the future if more youngsters were encouraged to have pen pals in other cultures. Start with the New Democracies that came about because of the end of the Cold War. The connection has to be through whatever mediums work over there, where they not have good infrastructure like we do, the phone connections are intermittent. I think News Aggregation is better than e-mail.
What this does for the next generation is that they will write more coherently, and better understand the problems around the world, and why some solutions fail. Awareness of how much worse off other people are, but for the Grace of God where we were born could be us there, means that we may be less materialistic, less subject to temptation, more appreciative of what we have.
What this does for the next generation in other lands that our kids are pen palling with, they have a better understanding of our values, how capitalism can work.
Now can this concept also be promoted at the adult level to fill out the Sister Cities concept? Our city wants to encourage more trade, and educational exchanges with the people of the cities we have partnered with. I think Radio Categories, for people in enterprises that support the Sister Cities movement, is an ideal way to develop relationships that will be to the benefit of that e-trade growth. Have the school systems host weblogs by the students, in which they can interconnect with the youngsters at the schools of the Sister Cities.
Helping get something like this operational will also educate Radio developers as to what is needed in the area of Radio documentation so that this software can be used by any person, regardless of past computer experience, thus opening up Radio to the mass market.
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