Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.
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Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.
A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.
CNA Insurance presented their internal knowledge management solution at the October 2005 KM Chicago meeting.
Jeremy Aarons of Dubbings and Diversions asks a familiar question, Who isn't a knowledge worker? How important is this distinction, I wonder?
Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.
Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
"Mapping Knowledge Domains Colloquium 2003" is an interesting person-topic map for a conference. I would find this sort of map to be incredibly helpful coming into a conference or other meeting of people who I don't quite know yet.
Is it me, or are there a heck of a lot of blogging and/or KM surveys coming out of late?
David Buchan suggests that a group needs to come to an agreement to always respond when asked. People in the group need to have some understanding of everyone's expertise as well.
Dave Chu has been writing Knowledge/Action for a while, but he seems to be hitting his stride lately. This article talks about his genesis on the path: "A Neo-Confucian Approach to Knowledge Management."
David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise has a piece that points to some interesting aspects of knowledge work: "Getting Real: Don't pick the tools ahead of the craftsman."
Dave Pollard has another in depth tome in yesterday's "The Psychology of Information, or Why We Don't Share Stuff." I like that he acknowledges the importance of the underlying human behaviors in this dilemma.
Interesting articles from Clay Shirky and David Weinberger on categorization and tagging. The articles have been out for a couple months, but it's useful to look at them in light of hearing the ideas bantered around.
The next AOK Star Series will run Monday, 19th September, through Friday, 30th September. The topic is "Toward Pragmatic Knowledge Management" with David Fearon and Steven Cavaleri.
Jeff Oxenford brings up an interesting topic based on a KM World editorial by Hugh Keller, "Invisible KM." Should KM remain invisible, or should it be driven home by the leaders of the organization?
Lilia Efimova is back to writing about knowledge management: "Unexpected knowledge sharing: on recording and discoverability of knowledge traces." She goes on to discusses two strategies relevant to KM for organizations: highlighting the demand for knowledge, and motivating the discovery of knowledge (really "knowledge traces").
Jason Marty spoke at KM Chicago on legal knowledge management and the KM efforts at Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms. He didn't dive into the details of any one KM project, rather he spoke about how Baker & McKenzie has approached knowledge management in light of the legal environment and Baker's business drivers.
Denham Grey and Paul Hartzog and I thinking about conversation and extending the social network.
Business Process Trends has published a white paper by Russ Records on "The Fusion of Process and Knowledge Management." The article is focused primarily on installing IT systems that do process management and knowledge management, but it is nice to see this good overview of the combined disciplines.
In "Data chief climbs the executive title tower," Chicago Tribune staff reporter Jon Van discusses data mining the importance of data to companies. I see the importance of the strategic view.