All in community
Ken Blanchard’s High Five is a blast from the past. It was published in 2001, on the heels of several popular management books like Raving Fans and The One Minute Manager and Gung Ho! They are all based around “common sense” ideas that might not be terribly common practice. High Five is about creating teams that perform at top levels, and there are plenty of folksy aphorisms peppered throughout the book.
Organizational change requires some of the obvious checklist items, but lasting organizational change requires that the operation and way of doing things. It's a shift from ticking checkboxes to doing things in a new way.
Trust has always come up for me in knowledge management conversations, but as this blog from Social in silico post discusses, it is really the center of being able to work together successfully.
Believing in the inherent value and quality of people comes out in how you challenge them and what you expect of them. It has much less to do with your direct personal style.
Thoughts inspired by a Clay Shirky keynote talk from 2003.
Are there different types of communities? And does that suggest that we have to approach them differently in terms of community management?
Review of Eric Von Hippel's "Democratizing Innovation" which looks at the spread of user-inspired and user-created innovations throughout all industries. What creates it? What sustains it?
Just because someone doesn't actively participate (talk) in their community, this doesn't mean that the person and the community don't benefit.
Why don't people speak up and ask questions? Is it the standard list of concerns around why people lurk? Euan Semple suggests there is something else going on in the sociology of people: they are afraid to speak their mind.
There are many modes of participation in a community. Talk of lurking and the opposite seems rather one-sided.
Stan Garfield posted an interesting Communities Manifesto that describes 10 principles of communities and goes some way toward differentiating between teams and communities.
Dale Arsenault gives us a straightforward description of collaboration in "8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration."
In case you don't realize it, I drink a lot of coffee. Several people on Twitter pointed to a LiveScience article on "10 Things You Need to Know About Coffee."
People who have been following my blog for a while have probably seen me reference Brandon Wirtz' thought that Blogs are just a front porch. I like this particular analogy enough that I tossed it out as a topic at the BlogHer unconference.
The second unconference session was initiated by Aliza Sherman as a result of the communities panel from Friday, where there was not enough time to talk about how and why communities die / break-up / fade away.
Some of my reaction to the first day of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago.
Luis Suarez has a great story about knowledge management from someone who has nothing to do with knowledge management in Knowledge Management - Where Are the Bees?
Jenny Ambrozek is using a wiki to create a well-researched article on Connected Intelligence for The Knowledge Tree. I've started participating, and she has opened the invitation to anyone who is interested.
I've been looking at using one of the social networking services to extend the reach of a growing community of ~200 people. Does LinkedIn's or Facebook's group feature make sense?
There is a running discussion in the blogosphere on layers of a social networks and how trust or value is tied to each layer.