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Warum bekommt man bei Posterous potenziell mehr Kommentare/Feedback als im Standard Blog?

Sicherlich hängt viel daran dass es leichter fällt eine Menge an kurzen Notizen (mit ebenfalls kurzer Einschätzung) zu posten als tiefergehende Analysen und entsprechend lange Blogposts. Das gleiche gilt wohl auch für die Länge der Kommentare, insofern nehmen Posterous, Tumblr und Co. wohl eine komplementäre Rolle zwischen “richtigem Blog” und Twitter ein. Diese Aufgabe und Rolle zwischen Blog und Microblog habe ich persönlich bisher eher mit delicious und diigo gelöst, das hat sich aber wohl nie auf breiter Front durchgesetzt (und zudem ist der Stream von interessanten Fundstücken und Links bei den Bookmark-Dienstleistern nicht so schön formatiert …).

Ich muss auch zugeben dass es für mich oft bequemer ist mit Posterous oder Tumblr einen schön formatierten und zudem mit einer Grafik garnierten Blogpost zu generieren, den man dann auch noch bequem in mehrere Kanäle weiterverteilen kann. Und ja, dass die Grafiken immer direkt auf das Original “hotlinken” ist zwar unschön, aber die Bequemlichkeit siegt 😉

via cyber-junk.de

Thorsten fragt und bekommt eine Antwort von mir – und als Proof of Concept für die komplementäre und nicht-konfliktäre Rolle von Posterous und Co. geht dieser kleine Posterous-Antwort auch in die Hauptblogs frogpond und BMID …

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On the list of knowledge management blogs

There’s a list of knowledge management blogs prepared by Pumacy Technologies AG based upon an explorative study. They have been analysing KM blogs by comparing figures from August 2008 (amount of postings, amount of comments, Google and Alexa ranking). And while this blog wasn’t included from the start, they reacted quickly on my mail so I’m included now.

Well, I guess a disclosure is needed: I mailed them partly out of professional vanity but also because I was glad to find some people on the list that I didn’t knew before. A list like this serves a purpose of giving traction to people that you wouldn’t find otherwise. So I am thankful that Pumacy provides a basic overview of the scattered KM blogging landscape, i.e. all the people writing about various aspects of KM, even when the methodology of the study could be questioned. And yes, they’re vendors and thus got clear (and reasonable) motives to demonstrate that the KM space is up and running, but still I can’t find this too bad.

More KM blogs …

Luis included me in a list of worthwhile KM blogs, and asks for more.

This is hard as my list resembles Luis’ quite a bit. But here are some more, in no particular order, and playing almost by his rules:

I want to make it very clear though that this is not my complete essential list of KM reads. To me, that would be the entire 200 KM blogs I am subscribed to right now and that I follow on a regular basis. What this list is, actually, is a whole bunch of folks who have grabbed my interest the most just recently and I will be adding a single line per blog detailing what may be of interest to you, so that you would have the opportunity to check them out further, if you wish to.

What does almost mean? I may point out some of the recent entries of the particular blog, that I’ve boomarked recently – using my shared del.icio.us bookmarks which give a neat summmary if and why a peculiar blog is worthwhile:

So here I go:

GridLock – Just another KM Blog, by Arjun Thomas

I bookmarked some 15 entries by Arjun over the course of time, stuff like

What prompts the need to capture Best Practices?
Knowledge Culture (“The bottom line is, do not hoard information. Get as much of it out to your people as possible. They just might surprise you.”)
Capturing and Transferring Knowledge (“unless an organization’s culture is geared towards sharing knowledge, creating systems and processes to enable the sharing of knowledge is a moot point”)
Why KM? (“With attrition levels high, initiatives, ideas and direction are lost. The other driving force for building KM – where is the time to train new joinees?”)

Arjun is clear, knowledgeable and outspoken, like e.g. here (Why E-mails make bad Idea Management Solutions) or here (MS Wiki Vs Wiki):

What Microsoft seem to have done is create a web based front end for microsoft word, and slipped in a interlinking system and called it a wiki. Even with the versioning system this is probably the simplest and least effective wiki i have come across

Then there is Incredibly Dull by Andrew Gent, a quite new blog with only a few posts for the start. But they are fine and thought-provoking, like e.g. Three Types of Knowledge Workers or The Threat of Social Software (for corporate intranets) (part2, part 1).

Third, and last for today is Knowledge Forward by Craig Roth of the Burton Group. This is a pretty new blog but looks promising, at least for people who are into technologies for KM. From Craig’s mission statement aka about:

[…] My goal is to provide information and ideas that help organizations get their knowledge-based Information Technology initiatives moving forward. […]

I have found it fascinating to see how industry consensus emerges around new technologies and concepts and to follow their acceptance from geeks (“Isn’t this a great new technology?”) to VCs (“Wow! Look how much money we can make!”) to end users (“What can this really do for me today?”). I continue researching new areas with a healthy dose of skepticism, applying the lessons I’ve learned so far to each.

So many good blogs, so little time. And now on to Luis’ next challenge, see next post (in BMID).

IEEE : Web Collaboration in Unternehmen

Heute bin ich hier: Web Collaboration in Unternehmen.

Mit dem rasanten Aufstieg von Blogs, Foren und Wikis im öffentlichen Internet stellen sich auch Unternehmen die Frage ob bzw. wie diese interaktiven Kommunikationsmechanismen im Unternehmenseinsatz produktiv eingesetzt werden können.

Welche Mechanismen lassen sich adaptieren, und wo besteht für den Einsatz in Unternehmen Anpassungsbedarf, beispielsweise bei der Frage Offenheit versus Zugriffschutz?

Welche Funktionalitäten sind für die Anwendung erfolgskritisch, welche Softwareplattformen gibt es, und wie lassen sich diese in bestehende IT-Architekturen integrieren?

Ich versuche mal etwas zu bloggen, das Programm (pdf) ist aber recht dicht gedrängt …

Corporate uses of Web 2.0 technologies

Andrew McAfee provides another short insightful roundup on corporate uses of web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging, social bookmarking etc. In short, use them e.g. for:

collaborative production of documents (and meaning, understanding, commitment as I would add)
build a corporate encyclopedia, a “Wikipedia” for corporate data
as all-purpose teamware
a mega-adaptive ‘war room’ for fast-changing situations
spreading knowledge … and searching widely
‘crowdsourcing,’ i.e. leveraging emergence by farming out tasks to a distributed crowd of people who decide individually and flexibly on what they want to work on