Commenting on publications
Sunday 20 April 2008
- E 2.0 is the new KM - In a Harvard Business publication Tom Davenport argues that E2.0 is the new expression for KM. This is good news for my book, until some other guru invents a new expression, when we get tired of E 2.0. Let's imagine... (20:24 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 26 April 2007
- the lack of trust in business has grown - The McKinsey Quarterly: Exploring business's social contract: An interview with Daniel YankelovichThe values of the generations that grew up before 1950 are embodied in the concept of enlightened self-interest—not naked self-interest, but enlightened self-interest. Enlightened self-interest is when you make... (08:50 | 0 Comments)
Saturday 10 February 2007
- The value of networks as "worknets" - Still in The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, an article on the buiness value of social networks, by Christopher MeyerNetworks lend themselves to at least five basic tasks. They can scan the horizon, as the Global Business Network does,... (19:37 | 0 Comments)
- Large companies innovate more - Stil in The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 an article reporting on a systematic study of innovation in relation with the size of an organization, here a city:We did indeed find that cities manifest power-law scaling similar to the... (19:17 | 0 Comments)
- Collaborative leadership - In The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 Duncan J. Watts argues against the overstated importance of charismatic leaders to induce change. Very interesting article that shows that the ability to influence others is after all far less important than... (18:31 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 20 October 2005
- Where are the people? - Just went back to visit Stowe Boyd at Corante. It was strange to see so many RSS feeds organized by topics and none by author. Strange concept. I met with Stowe, and I'm interested to know what he is up... (23:21 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 2 February 2005
- A MUST READ for all knowledge managers - "Power to the Edge", by David Alberts and Richard Hayes, is a book I downloaded here (beware! 4 Megs pdf file) after reading Ray Ozzie's comment. I just finished, and it is an absolutely fascinating piece of work. I... (18:43 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 14 November 2004
- Defining the weblog - From Elmina The weblog, or blog, is a webpage on which the author publishes pieces with the intention to start conversationExactly. [Harper's Small World]... (18:51 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 26 October 2004
- Free Tagging and Ontologies - In a great post, Metadata for the masses (via Many-to-Many), Peter Merholz advocates free tagging of documents as opposed to choosing tags from inflexible top-down classification systems, which often force users to view the world in potentially unfamiliar ways. I... (09:01 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 16 May 2004
- Quote from weblogs at Harvard Law School - Harvard Weblogs: Weblogs at the Harvard Law School For US presidential candidates: "Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet." Is the Internet becoming a "cyber-country"?... (17:32)
Wednesday 5 May 2004
Tuesday 6 April 2004
- Weblogs and innovation - About "I'm blogging this - A closer look at why people blog" (via Lilia), 5 nuggetts and related personal comments linking weblogs and innovation: 1- Blogs are often thought to be mundane and superficial. Yet, as Nardi writes Many of... (22:55 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 March 2004
- On conversations again - From Dan Gillmore's online book project "Making the News" News organizations in recent times have operated as if the news was a lecture -- we told you what the news was, and you bought it (or you didn't). Tomorrow's news... (17:08 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 24 February 2004
- The web never forgets - The Declaration of Interdependence at headmap is definitely worth reading. For headmap, the Internet has been misunderstood. Most view it as an economic engine which basically increases productivity, and early "marketplaces" on the web actually replicated marketplaces in the physical... (10:27 | 2 Comments)
Monday 16 February 2004
- No future? - An article published by Harry Scarbrough of the Warwick Business School in KM Review called "Why employees don't share what they know" (unfortunately only available online for subscribers) elaborates on four typical employee behaviors that characterize the way they share... (17:07 | 0 Comments)
Monday 2 February 2004
- What's wrong with KM Software? - Another excellent paper about social software from Clay Shirky, called " Social Software and the Next big Phase of the Internet", which you can download on GBN A gold nugget I extracted from this paper: One of the problems we've... (10:25 | 3 Comments)
Saturday 31 January 2004
- Is social software a new business? - I bumped into the transcript of a speech given by Clay Shirky last year called "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy". Don't ask me how, I honestly don't remember how I got there. This is a great text on... (18:32 | 0 Comments)
Friday 30 January 2004
- Why blogs are so important for society - On Missboulette, this quote from Steinbeck in "East of Eden": "Our species is the only creatice species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There... (11:18 | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 January 2004
- About "Blogging the Market" - George's report "Blogging the Market" is a very interesting read, even though I sometimes think its going a bit to far in its manifesto-like tone. I agree with the fundamentals, but I think the actual change in corporate governance and... (19:38 | 3 Comments)
Thursday 8 January 2004
- Information Belongs to Communities! - On ManyWorlds I downloaded Perfect Information and Perverse Incentives: Costs and Consequences of Transformation and Transparency from Michael Schrage It is a truly brilliant paper, which argues, based on documented evidence both in the military and in finance that "the... (10:55 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 December 2003
- About "the Practice of Peace", by Harrison Owen - In this book, which you can download on the KnowledgeBoard, Harrison Owen draws a parallel between his own experience as the creator of Open Space Technology and his readings about Complex Adaptative Systems from Murray Gell-Mann, the physicist, and self-organizing... (13:17 | 0 Comments)
Monday 22 December 2003
- Better than participation: Connectedness - Many-to-Many: Not just activist, not just participatory, but connected About e-Democracy: "It’s not simply that connecting lowers the hurdle when compared with either activism or participating. More important, the rewards of connected democracy are different. Yeah, we (pretty please) throw... (19:15 | 0 Comments)
Saturday 13 December 2003
- Rediscovering conversations in politics - "The Marketing of a President" is a great article showing how weblogs and other forms of social computing. are transforming the Internet "from information technology to organizing technology". I was particularly struck by the following quote from the article: "Dean's... (23:20 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 December 2003
- Don't talk about KM; it makes you look "intellectual" - In How to create a know-it-al company (a good article by the way), there is a good checklist of what missteps not to do when instituting knowledge management in corporate settings: Don't call it knowledge management. Employees don't get it,... (21:54 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 2 November 2003
- The dilemma of KM programs - Dave Pollard’s paper, « the future of knowledge management » addresses the need to reinvent knowledge management after the failure of big K programs to deliver on their promises. Dave discards the old corporate-centric idea of KM, focused on ‘capturing... (21:10 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 29 October 2003
- e-learning - a good practice case - The online tutorial "Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Weblogs and Trackback" is outstanding. Not only does it provide deep insights on syndication and aggregation as the core CMS practice on corporate intranets, but it also provides an excellent case... (11:24 | 2 Comments)
Thursday 16 October 2003
Thursday 2 October 2003
- The motivation for learning is the desire to access a community - In Learning communities and learning networks, posted on September 30. and commented on by Sebastien Paquet, George Siemens opposes two learning environments: course work and learning communities. As I strongly support the development of CoPs in my company, I cannot... (18:16 | 1 Comments)
Saturday 20 September 2003
- About John Seely Brown... - It is surprising, and somewhat comforting, to realize that John Seely Brown’s presentation "Learning, Working and Playing in the Digital Age" made back in 1999 is still to be meditated. (It reminds me of Dali's answer to a question by... (10:03 | 1 Comments)