Global Knowledge Review – New KM Journal

Jack Vinson pointed me to a new KM journal, Global Knowledge Review. The site says it is designed for “individual knowledge workers who have taken responsibility for their working lives.” I looked at the sample issue, which is also their first, and found many of the well known KM bloggers that I subscribe to, along with some others to look for. There is a very international list of contributors in the first issue and the topics look promising.

Those currently on my RSS subscription list include Dave Pollard, Lilia Efimova, James Robertson, and David Gurteen. Others who have blogs and are new to me include: Gautam Gosh and Dina Mehta. I will be looking at their work. There may be others with blogs but I could not find their blogs.

Dave Pollard writes a nice piece on “What do Knowledge Workers Want?” In a survey he did while still at E&Y, he found that knowledge workers have trouble finding what they need, even on their own hard drive. This was a problem for me. My blog has really helped for certain types of information but now with over 300 posts, I would be lost without being able to Google my own site. Dave has written on this topic before and I have posted on his thoughts.

This gets compounded since most of the best stuff in an organization is on each individuals hard drives. So you need to find the right person with the right stuff and then they need to be able to find their own right stuff to give to you. Ever happen to you? Blogs can help but we have to careful as they get bigger that they just become another black hole for information. Fredrik Wackå addresses this issue in CorporateBloggingBlog and links to the Made Out of People blog that asks if there is a better way to find stuff in blogs. I go into this deeper in another post today.

Dave provides much more that this simple question in his article which you can get in this free sample issue at the Global Knowledge Review site.

Lilia Efimova offers a lovely piece on taxonomy “Trees versus Webs.” In some ways, this picks up on the problem Dave raises. How to set stuff up so you find things and also find and understand the relationships between things. She concludes that webs are better than tree structures for this purpose.

I will now resist doing every article but you should read them all.