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Friday, October 11, 2002
K-Logs, weblogs, and knowledge Management.
WriteTheWeb: "What is a k-log".
http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=123
Selected quotes, taken from the above reference, about corporate blogging:
1. " But will it catch on -- will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps?" -Giles Turnbull.
2. "Weblogs will potentially become the first new widely adopted desktop productivity tool since the browser." -John Robb.
3. "I shudder to think of the billions of dollars that corporations have spent on barely used knowledge management systems like Lotus." -John Robb.
Note: I've embedded links of my own choice in the above quotations. -hb.
In my view, the phrase in item 1 above which reads "dump Lotus Notes databases" should instead read "go beyond ... ", since e-mail can be used to (selectively) post to weblogs and weblog postings can be automatically sent as e-mail to e-mail archives, e-mail lists, or individual e-mail accounts.
Some comments on the article suggest that Lotus Notes is capable of serving the same purpose as k-logs and that k-logs overlap with bulletin board discussion software. (By the way, I myself happen to think that context is actually better preserved in a weblog than in an online discussion board.)
Of course, people may also use IntraNet K-logs for the sort of gossip as is found on Internet blogs, but benefit is derived from the total amount of useful information posted disregarding all fluff, good info nuggets can be filtered and crosslinked by others. A relatively low signal-to-noise ratio could still produce a network of rich "knowledge management" data nodes, so to speak. Also, search engines can be used on weblogs to find all relevant infomation with rankings based on cross links from others (to do the later, the ranking, a Google Search Appliance may be needed, however).
Herb 12:32 PM
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