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The knowledge sharing economy

French anti-piracy law proposal raises serious concerns on privacy. - From Cory Doctorow in Boing-Boing about France's new copyright law proposal requiring ISPs to police their clients: For the first time in either Europe or North America, Big Content will be able to offload the tiresome and expensive work of... (09:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Is there a future for KM consulting? - Personal ideas on the future of knowledge management consulting (12:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

What makes corporate KM initiative work - From an article in the Harvard Business Review on Innovation, Networks and KM at Procter & Gamble:Procter & Gamble’s development and implementation of connect and develop has unfolded over many years. There have been some hiccups along the way, but... (15:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

My CI number is very very low... - In a recent post, Stowe introduces The Conversational Index which measures how much conversation is happening on a blog as opposed to pure broadcast. Basically, you should have more comments and trackbacks than posts, otherwise you are just sending messages... (23:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

KM is about saving your job - From Allan: Knowledge management, by whatever name, may help or hinder, but it is clear that it is not about the technology or the systems. It is about changing the way you manage your business. It is about saving your... (18:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

When governments take social networks seriously - Just browsed though the Canadian EnergyInet website. In essence, it is a community of interest aimed at boosting R&D programs related to Energy. It is also a program to select the right projects to fund, which suggests a legitimate community... (10:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Is KM dead? - Browsing through a couple of old papers, I just bumped into an interesting presentation about KM by Antoine Said of SFR, and the slide herewith really was an eye-opener. It shows what the actual perception of "Knowledge Management" is... (10:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Socially engaged web-hosting services - Dishost from Belgium provides "web-hosting services with a pinch of clean energy". Another sign of the importance of meaning and ecosystem niches in the knowledge age... (17:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Social Software = Stuff That Gets You Laid. - From Clay ShirkyIf you want to do something that�s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy (...) �Social software� is about making it easy for people to... (17:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Google: "Recruiting the best minds on the planet" - Recruiting quizzes at Google presented during their analyst day on Feb 9. look a little destabilizing, don't they? The recruiting process really looks like an exam. As a programmer, you're given a coding problem. As a salesperson, you're asked to... (14:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Knowledge Transportation - Reflecting later upon the Personal KM workshop at KM Europe, maybe the transportation industry could be a good metaphor for KM. In the early days of the industrial revolution, the railway was the only industrial transportation system, and of course,... (16:06 | 3 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Don't give them alternatives! - Heard at the KM Forum two days ago from a KM consultant: Teams should not make recommendations to the management but propose alternativesWrong. In the knowledge economy, teams are expected to be opinionated and make strong recommendations to the management,... (10:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Are knowledge marketplaces back? - Lowell L. Bryan in the McKinsey Quarterly 2004 Number 3, wrote an interesting article advocating market economics to foster knowledge sharing in corporate environments. In short, effectively exchanging knowledge on a company-wide basis is much less a technological problem than... (12:45 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Trust as currency - 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... (16:11 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

How to make money by giving away your work - A Spotter's Guide to Shared Content The "SOME RIGHTS RESERVED" logo is the first sign that a work is licensed using Creative Commons. Artists then mix and match from a menu of choices to specify conditions for sharing. ATTRIBUTION:... (22:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)