Mixed by Sam Van Campenhout (Business Development Manager @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0
October
An article originally posted on blog.hbs.edu
“I received a wealth of insightful comments in response to my earlier post on Enterprise 2.0 ratings for knowledge workers. I thought I’d use some of them to continue discussing the topic, starting with the very basic question of whether measuring E2.0 participation is a good idea at all. A few commenters felt that it was not, and that the very act of measurement would pollute or drain enthusiasm from exactly the activities E2.0 enthusiasts are trying to encourage.”
Read the full article at blog.hbs.edu
In my opinion…
Almost one month after launching the discussion whether knowledge workers should have E2.0 ratings Andrew McAfee posted part 2 of this topic.
Most people who reacted on the blogpost tend to think that rating people would actually discourage contribution though no evidence for that is provided.
According to Andrew McAfee who tends not to believe this rating may have a twofold result: it may encourage friendly competition and make people strive to improve their scores.
I personally believe that one number of a couple of numbers aren’t enough to rate people’s participation. After all, some people (a minority) may be excellent at adding information whereas others are really good at tagging, commenting and rating (after all: isn’t that just what transforms information into knowledge?). Therefore only a complex rating scheme may correctly display the actual value of what people are contributing (in whatever form).
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