Posted by admin on Mar 9, 2010 in
knowledge management there are so many things wrong with the front page of KMWorld…….
- where have all the women CEOs gone?
- are there any women CEOs?
- are women leaders in knowledge management?
I received the March 2010 issue in the mail yesterday and was rather excited to read who the latest and greatest companies are in knowledge management, but for some reason i can not get past the front page….I can not get over the fact that there are only 2 women represented on the cover
the article is 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.
So ask about women in knowledge management…..where are you?
today i am on the hunt of all things taxonomy
i have built taxonomies before. i have built highly structured ones and i have built ones that go with the business model of the organization and i feel that each are relevant for there own purpose.
came across an interesting article the other day in KM World: Folksonomy folktales
i have had several debates with myself on this very subject, txonomy and folksonomy
in the library world many librarians thing folksonomy is dead, just another way to categorize that obviously is not as good as the library of congress subject headings….but the little librarian in me does not agree
let me step back a minute and not totally recite my resume but give a bit of background info…..currently i am a usability engineer with a very long standing record of working in libraries (primarily digital libraries) i am a visual artist with a very strong opinion on how things work and if they don’t work well then i will make it clear as to how it could work better
i have been like this since i was a kid so it was natural to go into user interface design so here i am a user interface designer reading KM world and designing taxonomies.
so here i am designing a taxonomy for a content rich site that is so so super specialized that i am not sure there is any other way of doing this then creating a customized unstructured taxonomy and using folksonomy to help with the search engine optimization
i leave you all with no visuals today…..but i do ask for opinions
Tags: information architecture, knowledge management, usability
Posted by admin on Jan 28, 2010 in
knowledge management so i am trying to understand the impacts of knowledge management and really it comes down to the process of understanding what knowledge really is
we know that knowledge is not data or information
we do know that knowledge is something that sits in ones head until it is released like a flock of birds
we also know that knowledge sharing can save a company millions of dollars or at least a head ache of not repeating the same mistakes made by bebe when she buys her coffee from the guy in the blue hair
anyways that was a side rant
the argument i keep running across is whether capturing and discovery are the same and what the real differance is between content oriented and process oriented tasks.
for one thing it is clear that one task is about the “know what” and the other task is about the “know how”
but do you have to know how before you you know what?
does it really matter?
let us think about a cup of tea
do you have to know how to make a cup of tea before making it? at what point to we include instinct as a process?
and once we have completed a task do we capture it or discover it?
i have created a
knowledge-management pptx of some things knowledge management it does not really delve into these topics with toooo much detail but it does start to define some of the methodologies of KM and KS
i am curious to know what people think, what is the difference and what practices do you use do you capture first than discover? do you identify the process or the content first?
did the chicken or the egg come first?
Tags: knowledge management