klognews.com - Enterprise Weblogging News, Resources & Commentary

John Maloney pointed me to klognews.com, an excellent resource site dedicated to the emerging use of weblogs in knowledge management use cases (i.e., "klogs"). A number of well known bloggers are listed as contributors such as Jack Vinson, Greg Reinacker, Dave Pollard, Dina Mehta, Judith Meskill, and Bill French. Their posts are listed by author and link back to the authors own blog.

The site provides a list of uses of klogs.
• Corporate diaries
• Business news feeds
• Hourly, daily, weekly updates of status reports
• New information on a topic or subject matter containers
• Product updates: reviews, new versions, new products
• Event management
• Product roll-out tracking
• Expertise management and discovery systems
• Distance learning systems

Comments

[Denham]

The issues with blogs in business are:

* difficulty of aggregation - thoughts & content are dispersed in space & time
* displacement - ideas roll off the blogs, substituted by the most recent post
* search - remains poor and ineffective
* Aggregation by concept is difficult

In business there is a need to collect insights by project, work area, product, customer, department.... this is not how blogs work.

Wikis seem to be an ideal compliment to blogs, making it possible to collect, anneal and refactor content tied to concepts rather than people.

[Bill Ives]

Thanks to Denham Grey for his perceptive comments. If there are existing knowledge management solutions, blogs can be an effective complement than helps provide the personal context for content. If there is no knowledge management solution, blogs can provide a low cost start but be aware of the limitations such as those that Denham points out.

[c]

Interesting site. Thanks for the read.