Mopsos

I finally found the time to upload my ppt presentation made in Lisbon on June 1. for the KnowledgeBoard SIG meeting.
It's called "Web-based collaborative spaces - lessons learned at Schneider Electric" and you can download it here. Caution! It's a 2meg file.

It's a shame we didn't have time to discuss it in details, because I had a lot more to say than I actually did on those slides.

As an example, page 12 presents a person as a collection of identities, each one being tied to a community of some sort and embodied by a name (or a pseudonym), an e-mail address and a web site. As a KM professional, my identity is represented by this "mopsos" weblog, and the associated e-mail address which I only use with other KM professionals; as a Schneider employee, I have KM pages on the company Intranet, and a corporate e-mail address; as French citizen I have a "wanadoo" e-mail address provided by France Telecom, which I use for every "official" form of communication; I have a hotmail address I use for all people I don't trust and who ask for my e-mail address etc. At the end of the day, I am a collection of identities, and I behave according to the rules of the associated community each time I use this identity. And I should be the only one able to make the connection between those different identities. I find this rather new (?) concept of identity extremely powerful for the design of future collaborative tools. Etienne Wenger suggests that identity will be the major issue of human societies in the 21st century. I am not sure of what he actually means by this, but it certainly resonates with ideas presented in those slides.

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