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Interesting discussion going on at the actkm group. A few days ago, Cory Banks proposed collaboration on a KM Body of Knowledge (BOK). Last night (eastern US time), and yesterday, the discussion intensified about what was involved in creating such a BOK, and, of course about what a Body of Knowledge is. For the ongoing […]

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In a noted blog posted on September 28, 2008, Venkatesh Rao made a number of claims about the relationship between the KM and social media movements. I’ll end this examination of the relationships between KM and the 2.0 cluster by using aspects of my previous analysis to examine his primary claims about the existence of […]

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In analyzing relationships among the various memes and the movements and sub-movements associated with them, we have to be clear about which definitions we’re using. The reason for that is not that we like definitions or believe that they identify Aristotelian “essences.” Instead, it’s because we want others to be able to evaluate our conjectures […]

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People who view Knowledge Management from outside the field often make the mistake of viewing KM as much more homogeneous a field than it in fact is. They tend to think that “KM” means something very specific, and that what it means is the understanding of it they may have gained by reading one or […]

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In earlier posts on KM 2.0 I’ve critically reviewed many interpretations of aspects of the “2.0” trend relating to the idea of KM 2.0. Of course, such interpretations don’t end in April 2008, but have continued since then, and, if my purpose was to complete an up-to-date survey, I could continue my critical discussions through […]

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The year 2007 ended with a very interesting take on KM 2.0 by one of my former correspondents, Dave Pollard (See for example 1, 2, 3). Dave, who is given to emphasizing the social networking aspects of things provides this definition of KM:   “In a recent post where I waxed rhapsodic about how the […]

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From the beginning of KM there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics and measurement. In particular, there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics of KM impact. This lack of focus is in line with a certain anti-scientific orientation that has appeared in KM associated with the philosophies of post-modernism and social constructivism. It is also […]

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In a recent article in Knowledge Management Research and Practice, I suggested that the problem of lack of agreement on what KM is, suggests four possibilities: 1. People can be doing KM and calling it KM; 2. People can be doing KM and calling it something else; 3. People can be doing non-KM and calling […]

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According to many, KM 2.0 is introducing social media tools to improve connectivity, resulting in building relationships and trust, and then resulting in better communications and knowledge transfer. This is a simple theory. But it is at the heart of the claim that social computing tools will provide more success in knowledge sharing than previous […]

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Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight, (J. W. M. Turner, 1835) Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 2) The Exchange: KM Failure or Conceptual Confusion? The thread running through my commentary in Parts 1 and 2 is the idea that Dave’s blog and his position that KM should be re-invented as […]

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