Friday, January 3, 2003
Interesting Results of Weblog Use for KMRick Klau over at Tins has had some experience in the last months trying to implement a K-Log at his company. A K-Log is a network of weblogs used for knowledge management. I have always thought that this would be something important for the Chicago Teachers' Center to employ, as knowledge is our most important asset. So far I have not been able to generate much participation. Rick has some intersting insights: Bottom line: we learned a lot about how we want to share information internally. Noone in the company had a bad experience with their weblog. Some gravitated to it, while others found themselves more as a "consumer" of information rather than a "producer". This experience provoked a number of excellent conversations about what kind of information would be valuable inside the company. Sales people started thinking about what they did that might be useful for product management; development started thinking about what marketing was working on that might make them more effective.
Read the rest of his story here. -Steve |
More Schools Rely on Tests, but Study Raises Doubts
Rigorous testing does little to improve achievement and may worsen academic performance and dropout rates, according to the largest study ever on the issue. By Greg Winter. [New York Times: Education] |
