KM, Weblogs, and Social Networks
August 15th, 2004A long title, but a wonderfully written paper entitled, “Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing” for the Blog Talk 2.0 Conference. A few highlights:
“By reading someone elses weblog readers get to know the writer very well. It can be seen that webloggers who read each other and use their weblogs to converse with each other are building up trust. As a consequence, they are collaborating and forming networks (see Zijlstra, 2003). Weblogs can be seen as a “Personal Presence Portal”: They are an online representation of a knowledge worker’s presence and serve as an access point to his work and thoughts. Also, they provide access to other forms of getting in contant, such as email, instant messaging or meeting face-to-face. (Zijlstra, 2004)”
“It has been pointed out above that networks develop between weblog-authors. On the basis of shared understanding and common goals that have been negotiated through weblog-conversations, these networks can develop into communities of practise. (Dugage, 2004). Working together in these communities can be supported by individual or group weblogs (Dugage, 2004; Röll, 2003).”
Yet more examples of how weblogs fit into the collaboration schema. I’m hoping that I can find more examples of how RSS can be implemented into the equation. We were on top of that a long time ago with LISFeeds, but I’m sure that there more examples, especially in the library world. (link via Social Software Talk)