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KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part 26, KM and Enterprise 2.0, and KM 2.0 Conceptual Relationships

January 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments

1. KM and Enterprise 2.0: As defined by McAfee, E2.0 synthesizes Web 2.0, social software, and social media. Social Software tools focused on Web 2.0 technology that can be useful inside the organizational firewall, emergence and self-organization, egalitarianism in software applications, these draw the primary features of all three components into E2.0. We’ve already seen […]

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Tags: Complexity · KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Twelve, KM 1.0 and John Tropea

September 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

On March 17 and 18th John Tropea, one of the most active bloggers on KM 2.0 and social computing issues made two very interesting contributions to discussion of this issue. On March 17, in a blog entitled “Why KM 1.0 Failed in a Nutshell,” John put his finger on a point very essential to this […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Management

KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Ten, E 2.0, McAfee, and Davenport

September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

On February 19, 2008, Tom Davenport, one of the most well-known names in KM, published a blog post entitled “Enterprise 2.0: The New, New Knowledge Management?” Before, I discuss this piece, full disclosure requires that I call attention to the fact that “The New Knowledge Management” is the “brand name” that my collaborator, Mark McElroy, […]

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Tags: KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Remarks on Truth and Theories of Evaluation

July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Remarks on Truth and Theories of Evaluation

First, I think that true and false are terms we should apply to linguistic networks rather than single statements. Networks are necessary, because single statements generally assume a good deal of background knowledge illuminating the meaning of those statements. If the background knowledge is expressed in language also, we have a network of statements, and […]

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Tags: Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

More On Knowledge Management and Strategy: Once Again, the Contradiction

April 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on More On Knowledge Management and Strategy: Once Again, the Contradiction

The Fifth Plague of Egypt (J. W. M. Turner, 1800) I’d like to thank Olaf Brugman and Jack Vinson for their comments on my blog post about Knowledge Management and Strategy. I am very interested in the parallel between the view of The New Knowledge Management (TNKM) and Rudolf Steiner’s work of 1919, and I […]

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Tags: Complexity · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Management