As I mentioned in a post last week, the most recent issue of KM Review contains an article, “New tools to link the changing workforce - Engaging generations with web logs and social networking,” that I wrote with Robin Athey and Adriaan Jooste of Deloitte.
In the article we discusses issues unique to each generation at work and then look at several reasons that traditional approaches to connecting these generations for knowledge sharing can fall short: Knowledge is social in nature, context-driven, and personal. We suggest ways that blogs and social networking software can work within these constraints and conclude with questions to consider when adopting blogs and SNA tools.
I am posting on the article again as the people at KM Review have once again been nice to put this article, along with my review of Dave DeLong’s Lost Knowledge in portion of their site with the other pieces I wrote for them so people can access these works at no cost. Here is the link.
This was the second of two articles that I wrote as I first got involved with blogs. The other appeared in the August/September of Portals Magazine but the link is not yet available. I was fortunate to get input from many people as I put together these two articles in June including Cesar Brea, Don Chartier, Dick Costolo, Al Essa, Kathleen Gilroy, Dan Gruen, Andrew Grumet, John Maloney, Greg Reinacker, Shimon Rura, Bob Stepno, Anne Stuart, Roland Tanglao, Jack Vinson, Amanda Watlington, and participants in the Berkman Thursday meetings, including Dave Winer. Many others have helped since then.
Thanks for posting the article. We all thought we subscribed to this already but couldn't find our copies!
Posted by: Christina | October 28, 2004 at 04:04 PM