Alison Fish: KM Klogs

How Weblogs Foster Quality

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:19:40 GMT

Thanks [Radio Free Blogistan] for a Great Link, and thanks Seb for a great article, with an immense volume of heavy duty links for us to explore.
[Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog]

Agreed, this (Personal Knowledge Publishing and its Uses in Research) is a great article. A Great article! If you find the length too daunting, read just a section at a time and savor each sentence. Start with section three: How Weblogs Foster Quality.

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:03:47 GMT

Success factors for KM implementation. Charles H. Bixler has written about practical success factors for KM implementation, and his list consists of: Strong unified leadershipAlign KM with mission and business needsCohesive and engaged teamUnderstand current problems and issuesCollaboration and communicationInnovationUnderstanding and appropriate use of current...
[Column Two]

Term Help: "Where does history end and recent history begin?"

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 07:48:19 GMT

Time doesn't flow at a constant rate for anybody, that's a given. How can people express their relative metrics for different eras? Inessential.com searches for the right word:

"But what I’m thinking about today is a different though related sense of time. I don’t have a good term for it.
It’s the sense of recent history. Where does history end and recent history begin?
It’s different for every person."

A good vocabulary can make one an effective an efficient communicator. After all:

"...people’s senses of what is recent history don’t match, and this is a source of misunderstanding, confusion, and disagreement."

One could also ask, "what does green look like to you?"

Be your personal blogging best

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:43:47 GMT

Al Macintyre makes a weblog report card and Phil Wolff of a klog apart asks "What is 'Good Blogging'?"

Easing the fear of writing, continued

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:15:41 GMT

Hopeful news for we the fearful:

David Wertheimer: 99% of Proper Grammar is Obsolete.
[via WebWord] (50 words) [dive into mark]

That reduces my list by one: ~~Fear of using hillbilly grammar~~ . Yeeeeeeeehaw! (insert banjo celabratory riff here).

Easing the fear of writing

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:06:16 GMT

McGee had been musing again:

"...fear of writing is one relevant barrier to tapping knowledge in organizations...Lowering or eliminating those barriers is certainly a worthy effort."

Easing the fear of writing. How could you do that? First you'd have to know what causes the fear.

I can speak for myself: fear of using hillbilly grammar. Fear of speaking out of turn, upstaging my superiors. Fear of revealing something that was supposed to be confidential that I did not know was supposed to be confidential but nobody told me because to most people "its obvious what should be confidential". Fear that coworkers will discover my ignorance. (Wait a minute, everyone has some ignorance). Fear that my ignorance is much larger in scale than most of my coworkers.

"These questions started rattling around with some other ideas hanging out in my head and the result grew into 'Writing comfort and thinking styles'"

KM Definitions

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:37:05 GMT

Defining KM. A series of quotable, and thought-provoking, definitions of KM, ranging from the ethereal to the technical.
[blog cognosco v 0.1] via [Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]

Mathemagenic's KM Summer School Notes

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:55:02 GMT

I just reorganised my KM Summer School notes in one-page story: KM Summer School log
[Mathemagenic] via [Seb's Open Research]

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:46:41 GMT

What is a k-log?. Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps?
[WriteTheWeb]

I suspect that beginning bloggers and kloggers are often inhibited.

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:26:34 GMT

This could be a problem. When I started this weblog on July 30th, my objective was to post items that were notes to myself. I thought that the chances of someone looking at my site were slim to none.

Then my referrer page would show a few hits, and I was both flattered and nervous. Once I realized that the community was smaller and kinder than I had assumed, I posted more frequently.

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.

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. "

[Seb's Open Research]

Writing Inhibitions

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:18:44 GMT

Writing inhibitions, the causes:

It is a public display of facility they may not feel they have, and may not have; one correspondent was afraid his spelling was bad.
It makes folly as clear as wisdom, but is more persistent than a comment made in the hall
It takes time and thought (and a little hubris—per Larry Wall) to put words out for others, and to make them—and think them—good enough for public consumption.
[Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog]

Less Email == Good

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:29:07 GMT

"Yahoo groups in your news aggregator. Somehow I had totally missed this feature of Yahoo Groups. In the case that somebody else might have missed it too, if you submit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Group_name/messages?rss=1 to your aggregator, you will get all posts submitted to that group in your favourite news reader.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Forwarded by Jenny Levine

More info on Trackback

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:27:16 GMT

The KMpings Experiment. I created a little blog called KMpings that allows any blogger writing about knowledge management to ping their post to a tracking page (if their software supports it). Think of it as a themed www.weblogs.com for the knowledge management community.
Check out the KMpings blog for links to information on how to configure MT as well as a TrackBack hack for Radio.
[High Context]

ToDo: figure out what Trackback is

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:24:57 GMT

Knowledge Management Weblog Entry Aggregator (Using Trackback Pings). (Via blogroot/blogpopuli.blog) KMpings is a collection of Knowledge Management TrackBack pings. The site offers instructions on how to ping it with or without Movable Type. This should be a good one-stop shopping info source regarding knowledge management.
[Christian Crumlish (xian): knowhow]

Autoposting from rss feeds

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:18:35 GMT

...Mark Paschal, ever helpful, commented thusly:
Autoposting from feeds is what the Multi-Author Weblog tool is for. Since you have a paid LJ account, you could use a special style (that's the one I put together, but I know l.m. orchard had one too) to get RSS with item bodies.
Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay!
[Christian Crumlish (xian): knowhow]

update: add this to resource list MultiAuthor Weblog Tool documentation.

Report Progress with a K-log instead of email.

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:16:30 GMT

This one's for Tim:

How Does a K-Log Work for Notification?. Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers' email queues:
Reuters: Managers drowning in e-mail.

A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<< There is an answer to this: post it to your K-Log. K-Logs are more passive and user friendly than e-mail.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
[Jim McGee: Blogging]
[Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]
[Christian Crumlish (xian): knowhow]

LiveTopics - This Sounds Similar to Categories but Different

Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:03:19 GMT

[RadioFAQs]
Radio Tip: Radio's blog power leveraged - Matt Mower's liveTopics tool is really amazing. "rick" insisted that I load it (and he's my personal tech trainer so I did). I see some amazing power here. You create a topic for a post, and then later posts on the same topic get tagged under the same grouping. You combine that with an outliner (ala Marc Barrot) and you've got something that really adds to the KM power of Radio. I never cease to be amazed. Oh, and Matt showed me how to add a macro that goes beneath each "tagged" post (I don't have to assign a topic if I don't want to). The macro shows the topic and if the reader clicks on it they are taken to that part of the master outline that has similar posts. Wow!
[Ernest Svenson: Radio Questions & Tips]
[Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]

More Knowledge Management Ideas

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:46:58 GMT

"Adventures in coolness

Dave Sifry is showing me Projectdocs, a document managment system he wrote. Looks cool.

Actually, way cool..."
[Doc Searls Weblog]