One of the more interesting seminars I attended at KM World dealt with the opportunities to use blogging behind the firewall. Of course, blogs such as this one tend to ramble, but a well-focused, topical blog can provide two things that help employees deal with info glut: human filtering that gleans the really valuable nuggets from all of the information on a subject, and contextualizing that information with storytelling and personal perspective.
Blogs are easy to create, even easier to maintain, and can bridge the gap between adhoc communication such as email or instant messages, and structured knowledge stores.
This got me thinking. With all of the excellent tools on the market, many of which are free and/or open source, why not create an entire knowledge management system built using free components. Blogging software, forums, news and content management systems and RSS feeds could all become part of a KM package that even small companies or low-budget non-profit organizations could afford to implement.
What do you think? Am I out to lunch? In left field? Up a creek without a paddle? Let me know.
How dare you challenge the big dogs?
I think its a GREAT concept – plug and play KM components. Imagine building a system as you would select your lunch at the sushi bar – check off the boxes of the components you like, plug them together and play away.
Design a skeleton framework in which all of the components need to live, and define the rules and specifications. Throw it out to the world, and see who wants to be certified developers for this new kmsystem.
Picture open source legos.
[Put down the oar, and pass me the salt.]
How dare you challenge the big dogs?
I think its a GREAT concept – plug and play KM components. Imagine building a system as you would select your lunch at the sushi bar – check off the boxes of the components you like, plug them together and play away.
Design a skeleton framework in which all of the components need to live, and define the rules and specifications. Throw it out to the world, and see who wants to be certified developers for this new kmsystem.
Picture open source legos.
[Put down the oar, and pass me the salt.]
While a lot of us have been cobbling together this very thing from various componants for a long time, I would love to see one rolled together from an OS base application with a series of add-ons.
There have been attempts at this, in a very ad-hoc way, but not really an entire organised package with a mission.
Also, in terms of group blogging, this concept has been explored and developed for quite a while; you might want to google the term “wiki” if you have not:
http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/space/Definition+of+a+Wiki
While a lot of us have been cobbling together this very thing from various componants for a long time, I would love to see one rolled together from an OS base application with a series of add-ons.
There have been attempts at this, in a very ad-hoc way, but not really an entire organised package with a mission.
Also, in terms of group blogging, this concept has been explored and developed for quite a while; you might want to google the term “wiki” if you have not:
http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/space/Definition+of+a+Wiki