October
An article originally posted on taxonomy2watch.blogspot.com
“What is the role of controlled vocabulary in a Web 2.0 world? Can we have the best of both worlds: balancing folksonomies and controlled vocabularies to help communities of users find and share information and resources most relevant to them?”
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An interesting approach on mixing controlled vocabularies and user tagging.
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October
An article originally posted on www.cio.com.au
“Too many organizations choose to block what they don’t understand - it makes their environments easier to control. But what might the benefit be of truly understanding social media tools and allowing their use accompanied by a strong and appropriate proper use policy?”
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A worthwhile 12-step guide to getting the most out of Web 2.0 tools and making it safe-for-purpose.
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October
An article originally posted on www.enterprise2blog.com
“Here’s what’s going on: KM and SM look very similar on the surface, but are actually radically different at multiple levels, both cultural and technical, and are locked in an undeclared cultural war for the soul of Enterprise 2.0. And the most hilarious part is that most of the combatants don’t even realize they are in a war. They think they are loosely-aligned and working towards the same ends, with some minor differences of emphasis. So let me tell you about this war and how it is shaping up.”
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A thought-provoking and captivating insight on how the structured KM approach will disappear to the benefit of Social Media, and how Gen X will cede its unremembered place to the creativity of the Millenials (Gen Y).
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October
An article originally posted on www.kbs-frb.be
“Le Prix Lionel Van den Bossche est décerné chaque année par le Fonds qui porte le même nom, géré par la Fondation Roi Baudouin. Son lauréat 2008 est la jeune société Whatever, basée à Louvain-la-Neuve, pour son projet Knowledge Plaza, une solution pour le partage de l’information et des connaissances au sein de l’entreprise.”
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Whatever has been awarded the “Lionel Van den Bossche” innovation award 2008 for Knowledge Plaza after being initially selected amongst over 700 candidates!
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October
An article originally posted on mashable.com
“As the corporate adoption of microblogging tools like Twitter continues to increase, it’s only a matter of time before companies decide that there is something there worth exploring. Well-known startups like Mahalo have a 50% adoption rate of Yammer. Companies like IBM are using similar functionality on their Facebook-like internal communities. With so many potential benefits, why wouldn’t a company want to give this a try?”
Read the full article at mashable.com
Microblogging in the enterprise has been getting a lot of attention lately and speculations are made about its usefulness (or the opposite). To my mind it won’t help manage your information, but it will definitely help it flow and get people out of their e-mail boxes. Informality is another aspect of microblogging which helps quickly materialize knowledge that they would otherwise keep to themselves, yet without locking them into the silos of point-to-point instant messenging as microblogs are logged and shared.
Finally, one of the most important factors for adoption is the “what’s in it for me?” question which also gets a straightforward answer: if you know what people are up to, you’ll be more effective at finding the right person at the right time in order to get your own job done right. It also creates more opportunities for interaction and helps gathering feedback on your own work.
To those who blame these tools for additional information overload and attention diversion, what are you afraid of as long as the tool provides sufficient network/topic/project filtering features and its users stay professional? Receiving 20 status updates is far more useful and less disturbing than being disturbed by 3 people who are looking for information you can’t provide.
At the end of the day, you’ll only know if you try it out for yourself. So if you have the opportunity, I strongly recommend you give these Instant Messenging derivatives a shot. How? Well first choose a tool candidate requiring a minimal setup procedure (this article compares several amongst which my current favorite – Yammer). Find a few motivated folks in your workplace to test drive it but guide them with usage examples to avoid creating just a playground or another “information pit”. Finally, gather their feedback before considering a possible wider deployment.
Remember, even a small communication benefit over zero implementation effort leads to infinite return. So why wouldn’t anyone want to give this a try ? And if you have, what were the hurdles and solutions you encountered ?
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