Thursday, December 30, 2004
The Social Networking Weblog
I found an interesting entry on this weblog about a "Collaborative Communities of Practice 2004 Online Conference".
Following this link takes you to a page presenting the program for the conference. The abstracts of the presentations on this page provide a pretty good outline of the content covered by this conference. "Collaborative Communities" (or "Communities of Practice") is one of the central concepts of knowledge management, that informal, socially networked communities of experts form around specialized knowledge. KM believes that organizations should foster and tap into these networks in order to develop new solutions. Weblogs represent a simple collaboration tool that businesses can use as part of a knowledge management program. However, I believe it is important to avoid becoming too "techno-centric" in your approach to KM. The most important thing that anyone implementing a KM program can do is to first understand the community members and how they communicate. Technological (or Luddite) solutions will follow naturally by adapting the right tool to the right situation.
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Following this link takes you to a page presenting the program for the conference. The abstracts of the presentations on this page provide a pretty good outline of the content covered by this conference. "Collaborative Communities" (or "Communities of Practice") is one of the central concepts of knowledge management, that informal, socially networked communities of experts form around specialized knowledge. KM believes that organizations should foster and tap into these networks in order to develop new solutions. Weblogs represent a simple collaboration tool that businesses can use as part of a knowledge management program. However, I believe it is important to avoid becoming too "techno-centric" in your approach to KM. The most important thing that anyone implementing a KM program can do is to first understand the community members and how they communicate. Technological (or Luddite) solutions will follow naturally by adapting the right tool to the right situation.
# posted by Scott A. Curtis : 11:51 AM
