We need to do a better job of helping our colleagues - and helping ourselves - see the whole picture when a change is at hand. What are people really trying to DO?
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We need to do a better job of helping our colleagues - and helping ourselves - see the whole picture when a change is at hand. What are people really trying to DO?
Thoughts inspired by a Clay Shirky keynote talk from 2003.
If you really want this "social media thing" to be a way of working, then each person needs to pick up the tools and figure out how the tools make sense for THEM. Sure, you can do training, and introductions, and have the early adopters show others how they use the software. In the end, though, people have to choose to switch because it makes sense for them.
Chris Brogan has an article that steps away from the minutia of social media and looks forward to when we us it to DO STUFF.
When you are looking for experts, you want to find out who the experts are and their areas of expertise. But you also want to learn how they know it and how they are at working with other people. How do they operate?
Just think. If you write in public, it is both easier to find you AND when they do, the conversation can be at a higher level. Luis Suarez makes me think.
Michael Idinopulos at SocialText has an entry telling CIOs: It's Strategy Time in which he argues that Web 2.0 concepts and ideas (as described by Enterprise 2.0) provide an opportunity to move away from dealing with servers and firewalls to helping define the strategy for the business.
Several weeks ago, a friend forwarded me the links to two Toby Redshaw (CVP of IT Strategy at Motorola) interviews with Dan Bricklin. Redshaw has rolled out blogs and wikis at Motorola, and the discussion of their impact has me recalling the history of knowledge management.
Maggie Fox has some familiar thoughts on "How Social Media is Changing Everything." I like this take on how and why communities of interest have grown with the expansion of social media.
Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.
One of the longest-lived topics in knowledge management is expertise location, from the early days of electronic yellow pages to the fun of today. What follows are my thoughts and some synthesis from recent articles on the topic.
In "Social Software: Knowledge Management Redux?" Mike Gotta draws the connection between knowledge management and social software that I have seen as well.
Ton Zijlstra writes his viewpoint that relationships are more valuable than information exchange. And that social software helps build the relationships, overlaid with the transitory exchange of information.