Sunday, October 05, 2003

Just read this post by Clay ================= Knowledge Management as Social Network Management By Clay Shirky Interesting post by Dave Pollard on re-inventing knowledge management (KM) as social network management: What are 'social networks'? They are the circles in which we make a living and connect with other people. They transcend strict delineation between personal and business (there's often overlap between the two). They transcend organizational boundaries and hierarchies (we often trust and share more with people outside our companies, and outside our business units, than those inside, and often get better value from the exchange to boot). We are beginning to suspect that the essential yet elusive lesson of the PC is also the essential lesson for KM: It's all about portability and connectivity, not about processing power or content. Kevin Werbach has been thinking along similar lines over the last couple of years, though he calls it post-modern knowledge management. 10:57:05 PM     Met Joi Ito today, don't expect to be invited by him to his personal list (like the guy from the Forbes Article...  Even so, it Looks Interesting. ================ LinkedIn - a network of professionals Updated with more links I like networking. I like the idea, that everybody is connected to everyone else through not more than six other people. I was a member of sixdegrees.com - but never got much use out of it. Anyway - there's a new company, LinkedIn, Ltd that offers this kind of networking. It's aimed at realizing networks of professionals - and it has a number of safeguards against spamming, and unwanted contacts. There's a description of the Web of Trust that lies behind such systems on Many-to-many list. Update: There's a very active and interesting discussion on Joi's site with the founder of LinkedIn offering background information on design, user reactions etc. It's is very interesting to see how this is going to develop. Joi has also created a LinkedIn Wiki Page that has more information and more links. Marc Canter has an email discussion about LinkedIn Elizabeth Lane Lawley has criticism Let's see how this develops... Posted by jcf at May 20, 2003 09:06 AM | TrackBack 9:28:09 PM

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