The July August issue of KM Review includes an article by Amanda Watlington and myself, Using Blogs for Personal Knowledge Management and Community Building. It covers a few of the key themes from our book research. It begins with a functional description of blogs, discussing each of the key qualities that define blogs. It then addresses some of the many ways they can help business, including knowledge management. A number of the internal and external business uses of blogs are reviewed and tips for business bloggers are offered. There is also a section on how blogs can hurt businesses and what to do to reduce these risks.
We conclude with the prediction that there is there is no going back to pre-blog and RSS days. We are only at the beginning of blogs’ influence and new applications are constantly emerging (e.g. audio, video blogging). The blog’s basic core functions of a searchable archive with transparency and subscriptions to updates will continue to be enhanced with many new capabilities for blogs. In addition, these features are being extended beyond blogs. There is no turning back to siloed communication and content storage. Blogs lower the barriers to individual content management and to virtual conversation within enterprises and on a global level.
Hey Bill, Interesting that I've been working on a similar piece for a friend's newsletter. Any chance you can get them to make you article the featured item once they publish the index for the July/August issue? It would be great to have your piece as a reference.
Posted by: jackvinson | August 03, 2005 at 11:52 AM
Jack and others. A free copy of this article can be obtained by clicking on the link in post or http://www.melcrum.com/offer/bill/. This is a subset of the Melcrum site. They are the publishers of KM Review and havebeen kind to set up this site for free access to my articles and reviews.
Posted by: Bill Ives | August 04, 2005 at 07:55 AM