Poking around the intersection of KM and Social Media
A great article on a cool IM start-up called Meetro. “…Meetro is six guys and an Internet startup crammed into a three-bedroom walk-up.” What a way to start a business! Meetro is actually pretty cool. IM with built-in location awareness. Find people within five miles, 100 miles, and so on. Neat stuff. read more | digg story
A few days ago, I answered the question “what is knowledge?” I’m going to take it one step further, outlining our personal knowledge deficiency, and why we need others to share their knowledge. To begin, imagine all knowledge could be represented by a circle. What you know is represented as a slice from this knowledge […]
Last Sunday my neighbor Floyd Landis (actually, he lives a few miles from me) won the Tour de France. A few days later, controversy ensued as ICE announced that one of his six tests during the race showed a higher than normal testosterone level. I don’t know Landis personally, and I truly hope he is […]
Apparently, my post on knowledge effectively killed all feedback, so today I’m posting just a few quick news items worth noting. I’ll pickup my soapbox tomorrow. Google has release a great update to Google Talk that incorporates file transfers and voice mail. Yahoo! Messenger 8 for Windows is officially released. The plug-in system is fantastic. […]
Earlier this week I suggested that sharing knowledge is a positive action that benefits both the person sharing and the recipient. Steve challenged that statement, and I felt that a proper response was necessary. I’m going to explain why (and when) knowledge sharing is a good thing, but I’m going to do so over a […]
I ran across this rather disturbing quote on the web this morning: “Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.” This is the very argument that keeps people from sharing knowledge — a fear that they will be giving up a portion of their power base. This irrational fear cripples people and prevents us from […]
All of these mega properties have had recent outages. Where they differ is how they handled those outages and communicated to their community. Digg’s outage, which I mentioned last week, was brief. They did a decent job of communicating to visitors, explaining that the site was down and that they were working on it, and […]