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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Posted in Blog, Collaboration, KM, Personal, Web2.0 on 23 October 2008 | No Comments »

A recent exchange of views on the actKM mailing list inspired me to think about writing about my own Web2.0 experience, and what it means for me. Then the now-famous Wired article was published (no link — it has had enough — but here is a good early critique). I commented on the article’s point [...]

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Oh good grief…

Posted in Culture, KM, Tradition, Web2.0 on 10 October 2008 | 7 Comments »

I think I am grateful to Mary Abraham for pointing me in the direction of Venkatesh Rao’s densely argued article opposing knowledge management and social media. In fact, it made me as despondent as Charlie Brown faced with yet another opportunity to kick Lucy’s football. This is not a generational war: it is a battle of the [...]

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Social software in law firms

Posted in Information, Lawyering, Sharing, Web2.0 on 6 October 2008 | No Comments »

About ten days ago, I attended a law firm breakfast meeting hosted by Headshift, the social software consultancy. Penny Edwards has blogged about the event and posted the presentation on Slideshare. It was a really interesting meeting and discussion, and well worth the very early start I had to make to get there from Manchester.
The presentation [...]

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Getting a clue

Posted in Clients, Culture, Web2.0 on 18 July 2008 | No Comments »

A little while ago, Doug Cornelius posted a review of Groundswell. At the time, I looked at the book and the authors’ blog;* I wasn’t tempted to buy it, but something looked familiar. When a colleague recommended the book to me today, I took another look and realised where the resonance was: the Cluetrain Manifesto.
I [...]

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How we see it

Posted in Culture, KM, Knowledge, Lawyering, Web2.0 on 5 May 2008 | No Comments »

Charles Arthur comments on the journalism vs new media debate, and in doing so explains his one rule for writing a blog post.
The rule is this: when I write the post, I know more about that particular topic than the average person who’s going to read it. But I don’t know more about the particular topic [...]

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Lowering the sharing threshold

Posted in Culture, KM, Management, Sharing, Technology, Web2.0 on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

A common meme in knowledge management is that “people don’t share knowledge.” Here are a few examples:

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2004/03/why_people_dont.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5362/is_200605/ai_n21391376
http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0504/0504covstory_share.asp
http://www.skyrme.com/updates/u64_f1.htm

The non-sharing statement is usually coupled with a set of purported justifications, and may also include a solution. However, I am not sure that the basic proposition is correct. In my experience, people are naturally willing to share what they [...]

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