When you are looking for experts, you want to find out who the experts are and their areas of expertise. But you also want to learn how they know it and how they are at working with other people. How do they operate?
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When you are looking for experts, you want to find out who the experts are and their areas of expertise. But you also want to learn how they know it and how they are at working with other people. How do they operate?
Just think. If you write in public, it is both easier to find you AND when they do, the conversation can be at a higher level. Luis Suarez makes me think.
Andrew McAfee applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.
One of the longest-lived topics in knowledge management is expertise location, from the early days of electronic yellow pages to the fun of today. What follows are my thoughts and some synthesis from recent articles on the topic.
Howard Rheingold links to an interesting look at social networking services in "Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks." Short version: the authors describe a mechanism for describing people's interests as a fabric of tastes with some browsability components.
An article in CACM highlights how an expert locator is used at a software firm, highlighting some expected and some surprising uses.
Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
Bruce MacEwen has some interesting thoughts about corporate expertise locators and an idea that companies might actually know more than they think about their experts.