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eWeek: Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise

Monday, November 20th, 2006

eWeek Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise
By Stan Gibson
November 20, 2006
If you haven’t heard that cry already, chances are you will soon, as the use of wikis in enterprise environments spreads like wildfire.
Proliferating virally, wiki usage has grown exponentially in recent months, along with other consumer-centric technologies—including blogs, podcasts and RSS—that have […]

Knowledge management is dead. Long live Knowledge Management

Monday, November 20th, 2006

In his post, The relevance of knowledge management today, says about Knowledge Management:
The terminology and tools have substantially moved on, yet the fundamental problems are not new. As such, the wheel does not need to be reinvented, and those who have been in the knowledge management space can apply their expertise with enormous relevance.
Ross Dawson […]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet’s future in 2020 debated

Friday, November 17th, 2006

BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet’s future in 2020 debated
An interesting article: transparency is generally accepted as an inevitable upward trend with some society backlash from privacy concerns.
The repondents were split over the whether the impact of people’s lives becoming increasingly online, resulting in both less privacy but more transparency, would be a positive […]

My Blogs and Wikis talk at McMaster’s School of Business

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

In September-December 2003, during the 2nd year of my MBA (which was mainly at Melbourne Business School in Australia), I took one course at McMaster, “P727″, in Knowledge Management.
This year I was invited to go back as a Speaker to talk about Blogs and Wikis. And so, last night, Dr. Nick Bontis introduced me to […]

Web 2.0 is about participation, more than personalisation

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I was in a conversation at Toronto’s Enterprise 2.0 Camp on Tuesday night with a guy in telecoms (sorry if someone knows his name please let me know) who said for him that Web 2.0 is personalisation. He sketched the following:
When I click a button on my phone to fetch a cab it would know […]

Blogs are like plastics, wikis are like leaves

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Clearing out the summer clothes from my wardrobe to make way for the warmth needed to protect against Canada’s heavy winters, I was moodling over some points made on Wikis last week at KMWorld.
In my workshop I’d alikened blogs as being like an accumulation of post-it notes ( “every opinion is out there but what […]