knowledge sharing
Facebook, Devourer of Sites
Social networking juggernaut Facebook exerts a gravitational pull on smaller sites, sucking them into its orbit. Darren Rowse’s recent guide to making your blog “sticky” – attracting repeat visitors – addressed Facebook’s power concisely: “I have some readers on DPS who are Facebook junkies. They refuse to subscribe via RSS or email but religiously read [read more...]
Knowledge Sharing Links for 7/29/2008
15 Objections to Social Learning in 15 DaysSocial learning advocate Kevin Jones of Engaged Learning has recently wrapped up a great series exploring fifteen common pain points in gaining acceptance for a knowledge sharing system. Kevin’s solid answers to these common questions are good enough to reuse for your own problems. My favorite response was [read more...]
Book Review: Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
Elevator pitch Robert Buckman is the CEO emeritus of Memphis, TN chemical vendor Buckman Laboratories. I discovered his 2004 book Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization during a hopeful search on “knowledge management” at a Memphis Library kiosk. This was my first real offline research in the collaboration field and I was pleased to find such a [read more...]
Collaboration Tools Part 2: Reading the News
Author’s Note: This writeup is the second in a short series investigating different types of online collaboration tools that you can use to help your organization grow and learn. Click here to browse the entire “Collaboration Tools” series. Keeping up with the tubes I read an awful lot of news online. I don’t have a [read more...]
Knowledge Sharing Links for 7/18/2008
More Men Than Women Share Creative Work Online Professor Eszter Hargittai and PhD student Gina Walejko of Northwestern’s Web Use Project recently published a paper asserting that men were about a third more likely than women to share their creative endeavors online. This is despite the fact that both genders produce creative work at comparable [read more...]
