Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Jim McGee.  A shift from managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers.  Excellent. The fatal flaw in thinking in terms of knowledge management is in adopting the perspective of the organization as the relevant beneficiary. Discussions of knowledge management start from the premise that the organization is not realizing full value from the knowledge of its employees. While likely true, this fails to address the much more important question from a knowledge worker's perspective of "what's in it for me?". It attempts to squeeze the knowledge management problem into an industrial framework eliminating that which makes the deliverables of knowledge work most valuable--their uniqueness, their variability. 12:21:41 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Note:  to publish any PowerPoint or Word doc to my Radio weblog, all I have to do is save the file as a Web page to Radio's WWW folder.  In a couple seconds, the files are uploaded.  I click on the link for the uploaded document in Radio's "events" page (on the main menu) and it takes me to the link I can use in my weblog.  Simple.  Given that the doc is both on my desktop and up at my site, I get an automatic back-up as part of the process. 12:02:57 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Here is a simple way to look at how Weblog technology fits into the larger world of publishing.  Sure, there are higher end methods for extremely large sites, large print facilities, etc and there is some bleed over between the tool sets, but this is generally the lay of the land.  Note that all of the dominant tools mentioned are desktop tools (which puts some vendors ahead of the curve here if the model stays true, which I suspect it will). Additional note:  weblogs do fit into Web 2.0 as a means of advertising the availability of services, content, and resources that indivduals, teams, and organizations make available.  A global business card for Web 2.0 participation. 11:56:27 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Julian Bond has built a server-based Google News to RSS converter.  Here is an example of a Google News feed for "weblogs."  Nice.  This should be something that UserLand, Brent, and Social DynamX build into their client software.  This of course is a private effort, so it can go down at any time.  It would be nice to have the software on the desktop. 11:27:40 AM    Comment_ Trackback []