July 2004 Archives

Now that's interesting. Seb just decided to syndicate Lee's feed on his home page..

This reminds me that we did something very similar three years ago in my company with Control.com. Only, there was quite substantial money and legalese involved in the deal, and Seb's blog is almost 20 times more popular than our company internet site as you can check by yourself with marketleap.

Here, it's much more simple: No money transaction, no lawyers, only... trust. One professional endorsing another - and another sign of the times.

I just came back from the KM Cluster meeting in London on social tools for the entreprise. It was a great moment with very interesting people.
Matt Mower of evectors software did a great job to organize all this for a very moderate participation fee.

Complete program can be seen here and the Symposium Wiki there

Presenters were :
Stowe Boyd - Corante Research & A Working Model
Lee Bryant - Headshift
Prof. Marc Eisenstadt - Knowledge Media Institute
David Gurteen - Gurteen Knowledge
Euan Semple - BBC & the Obvious
Phil Wolff. - A Klog Apart & BlogCount

I love this drawing, especially in the holiday season. It reminds you of what is really important.

Just read Anjo, Rogier and Lilia's presentation made yesterday at BlogTalk in Vienna called "Shared Conceptualization in Weblogs".

I wonder if it is possible to extract and match similar concepts expressed in several weblogs without the mediation of a common ontology. I can detect in Lilia's weblog some interesting "Knowledge Management" concepts for my work, but I will translate them in my own vocabulary (sometimes in French! "shared conceptualization" seems quite close to the "référentiel commun" I was talking about today in the CoP-1 meeting, and which I have hard time translating into English right now).

On the other hand, if Lilia does the same with my weblog (God forbid), it might make sense for us to sit together at some point in time and talk about our common view of the Knowledge Management field. We can then create a shared topic map (aka language) of common concepts to be used by each one of us to categorize our work so as to facilitate its reuse by the other. If there is a whole community of Knowledge Managers using the same topic map, it is even better. The point is that you need to agree on a common language first, which automatic clustering engines cannot do for you.