Portals and KM
August 17th, 2004I’ve been coming across some great resources for social networking, collaboration, social software, and how it relates (or can relate) to libraries and knowledge management (sooner or later, I’ll publish the OPML feed somewhere).
This morning, while browsing my aggregator before work, I came across Portals and KM, run by Bill Ives. The tagline reads: “This blog shares ideas and hopes to generate discussion on the use of portals, blogs, and knowledge management to provide value to organizations through practical applications.”
I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed and look forward to more great posts like this one, which breaks down yet another weblog, which I probably should subscribe to as well (one at a time though). Through this post, I learned that the SEC has put collaborative technologies on its 5 year plan. From the Information Week article:
“The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its five-year strategic IT plan, calling for consolidating redundant applications, centralizing and simplifying data repositories, and enhancing data sharing and collaboration within the SEC and with regulatory partners and registrants. The plan, which was approved in July and posted on the SEC’s Web site Thursday, also calls for enhancing personal productivity through automation and collaborative technologies to facilitate “workforce virtualization,”deployment of knowledge-management tools that capture the expertise of staff, and Web-based forms and workflow automation tools to automate internal business processes.”
I like the “practical applications” statement in Bill’s tagline. I can talk about RSS, keeping current, weblogs, and marketing (my specialties) until I pass out, but it is the practicality of these theories that librarians can imbed into their work within the buildings that is really important here. I told 2 new associates today that my job is to make their jobs easier. That is a practical application of my continous efforts to stay current with research skills, new resources, and new technologies. To make the jobs easier to people: most notably, the attorneys in my firm, but also through this weblog I help my colleagues, peers, and anyone who happens by. That is, I hope that I help. Within a collaborative environment, we help each other achieve practical goals.