June 30, 2004

Communicating on KM

I was talking this morning with some people from the Pan-Europe organization in France and we were wondering how we could attract more attention on Knowledge Management from politicians and corporate leaders. The problem is that sharing knowledge is usually...



Corporate use of weblogs

I just attended EBG's conference on weblogs and their use in the corporate world. Loïc Le Meur was there, among others, and presented a couple of interesting things (Main ideas conveyed can be found on his French weblog on a...



June 28, 2004

Social networking vs. blogging

In a previous post, I tried to figure out how blogging networks and communities of practice relate to one another. This post has attracted quite a lot of attention thanks to Lilia and the KnowledgeBoard. This time, I am trying...



June 23, 2004

Students gave me hope

I just came back from a full day event at ENSAM in Paris where students presented their project reports before going on holiday. This was organized by Marc de Fouchecour, a KM pundit in France, and professor at ENSAM. Event/Course...



June 17, 2004

KM in French

I just thought of a translation for "Knowledge Management" in French that would sound better than the horrible "gestion des connaissances". I would use the two words "Enseignement & Renseignement". Enseignement means education in the teaching sense, and renseignement means...



From René Girard

In "The origins of Culture", his latest book:The origin of knowledge is also the origin of order, i.e. of symbolic classification and also Imitation and learning cannot be separated...



My presentation in Lisbon

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...



June 3, 2004

Anonymity in communities? Why not after all...

Hideo Yamazaki, CKO of Nomura Research Institute, wrote a very interesting article in the KM Review, also published on the Knowledge Board called Knowledge Communities in Japan: A Case Study - 10 Mar 2004. The paragraph on anonymity struck me:Another...