All in blogs
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.
C. G. Lynch at CIO.com has Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog from the just-completed Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Dennis McDonald is looking to survey people who are using blogs to support their project management work, either as the sole tool or in conjunction with other PM tools.
Just to be clear that Director Magazine is completely negative on blogging, here is an article in the May 2007 issue, Strategic business blogging by Matthew Stibbe.
A friend pointed me to "Blame and Shame" in the June 2006 Director Magazine. I didn't find anything particularly new in the article, but my friend pointed out the complete slant toward "corporate blogs are dangerous" is an overblown stance.
For those that have been following my blog for at least three months, you'll know that I've had my students reading blogs and keeping their own. Here is a summary of that experience.
Andy Roberts links to a discussion by Miguel Cornejo Castro. Essentially, the question is whether blogs build or tear apart other online communities (listservs, online forums, etc.). The answer: it depends.
A friend, who is considering a blog, pointed me to this rather negative article "The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings From Leading Bloggers." Nothing terribly shocking from my perspective.
Ghost blogging - the process of writing a blog in someone else's place - is just not right.
About three years ago, I had an interesting email and phone conversation with Bill Ives, who found me through this blog. A few weeks later (four years ago, as it turns out), Bill launched his blog, Portals and KM, and it is still going strong.
APQC's knowledge management blogger, Jim Lee, doesn't think so. I think he's looking at things the wrong way.
I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.
I've updated some of the background aspects of this blog to include the well-formed web's CommentAPI. And, since I couldn't find clear instructions, I provide them to you at no charge.
As usual, Denham Grey has produced a to-the-point piece on Social Search. He tells there is no good definition of Social Search, beyond the general idea that it is (web) search refined by a person's social circle. And I am not convinced they are the right direction for search.
Martin Roell has been interviewed by Michael Rossa of Siemens AG about the "Blog 100" effort that Siemens has been running internally (testing blogs for 100 days).
Lilia Efimova is moving forward with her thinking about employee blogging with a set of Personal vs. business dimensions of employee blogging. Along with that, she has put together a simple visualization (in Excel) to test where you are with respect to these dimensions in your blogging.
Bill Bruck discovered something new in a white paper by Shawn Callahan I had blogged before. Specifically, he discovered an interesting comment about the difference between a community and a network with reference to blogging communities.