Category: Knowledge Management

A nebulous and somewhat nefarious term but no one’s come up with a better one yet.

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NEW IBM TOOLS FORTIFY IM | eWEEK

IBM has released the IBM Community Tools suite. It combines the IBM
MQ Event Broker, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web services running
under WebSphere Application Server, Apache and DB2. The tools can be
used to locate experts, start impromptu discussions and alert and
survey large groups of people in real time.

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1216378,00.asp

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Featured Topic: Lotus Instant Messaging
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid4_gci905368,00.html

Article: Study predicts enterprise IM boom
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci906195,00.html

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Grassroots knowledge management. One critical feature of most first generation knowledge management efforts is that they were designed and implemented following the standard corporate approach of top down, centralized, resource planning and implementation…Knowledge work, on the other hand, depends on extracting maximum advantage out of the unique characteristics and experiences of each knowledge worker.[McGee’s Musings]

Blog as backup brain

Thinking in public – knowledge management with a small k. I started experimenting with weblogs and precursors to weblogs several years ago and began to publish a public weblog about 18 months ago. I’ve found the notion of weblog as backup brain to be a powerful metaphor for finding the value of weblogs to the work of an individual knowledge worker within an organization.

One of the central things that occurs with this strategy is that you have to start learning how to think in public. That certainly can feel like a risky thing to do. In some organizational settings it might well be risky. But I’m increasingly convinced that developing that skill will be an important aspect of what organizations must learn to do to survive and thrive in today’s world. [McGee’s Musings]