This is a new Gartner blog on high performance workplaces which may be of interest. I have some traction with Tom Austin who started it and have posted some comments. Unfortunately it's not possible f

Some of us are on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com eg Stan, Paul and I. If anyone else is on it, feel free to link to me using my work address john.schwiller@...

This is a link to Infonortics who run the annual Virtual Communities Conference, this year in London - I went to the 2003 one. http://www.infonortics.com/vc/index.html The 2004 archive on this site ha

I thought that the community members might be interested in this blog entry. The author says that he was formerly CKO of the consulting arm of a Big 4 accounting firm. http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/c

We will soon provide externally accessible collaboration spaces to Unisys sales and delivery teams and their clients and business partners. We are trying to determine the right level of legal protecti

T o day we held our sixth monthly call. Here is a summary. *Attendees* 1. Jerry Ash , Association of Knowledgework 2. Tom Barfield, Accenture 3. Steven Berzins , Accenture 4. Seth Earley , Earley & As

Greetings, all. On the call this past Tuesday, several people asked about the multi language support capabilities within the IBM Global Services artifact repositories. I posed this question to the Kno

T o day we held our 7th monthly call. Here is a summary. *Attendees* 1. Tom Barfield, Accenture 2. Richard Bettenhausen , Fidelity Information Se rvices 3. Raj Datta , MindTree 4. Stan Garfield, HP 5.

Articles about our members in recent issues of Inside Knowledge TO: SI KM Leaders Community Our members have written articles or have been featured in recent issues of Inside Knowledge Magazine. Jerry

Today we held our 8 th monthly call. Here is a summary. *Attendees* 1. Patti Anklam, Hutchinson Associates 2. Jerry Ash, AOK 3. Tom Barfield, Accenture 4. Gary Borella, Cisco 5. Seth Earley, Earley &

Hi -- I almost agree here. What is missing for me is the dynamic nature of knowledge and, importantly, reputation. At any giving point in time, the conclusions below are fine, but it is over time, whe

Hi All. I have to be careful in relating this story because it may involve people you may know, even though they are not members of this group. But the story is significant to this discussion. Member

Hi all, In Tuesday's call, I made a comment about why I don't think "Amazon- style ratings" are an effective KM strategy. Let me explain briefly why I believe that, and what I think is a better approa

On the topic of inferring the value of a document from the number of downloads, I would like to share this true story. When I started my first online community, devoted to meeting the needs of educato

Hi -- Another issue to add to the many concerning rating and ranking is that the folks leading these initiatives often cannot articulate what the business outcomes are. That's a problem. Anecdotal evi

Hi Dave -- Brief response in caps. I agree that prediction markets are useful, GOOD. but (i) we do not know yet what will happen when people try to game THEY ARE INTENDED TO BE 'GAMED' AGGRESSIVELY. T

Hi Dave -- It is not a matter of confidence, rather of outcomes. We've all been trained to listen to experts, pundits and highly credentialed people. Oh, and there are those polls and polling that are

Hi Stan, I really liked your 2-pager on KM. It really packs a lot of content into a small space. A book I read recently that I think is really quite good about setting up and leading COPs is "Company

On Tuesday we held our 9th monthly call. Here is a summary. *Attendees* * Raj Datta, MindTree * Steve Denning * Stan Garfield, HP * Andrew Gent, HP * Bruce Karney, Marsh * Michael Koffman * Doug Madgi

The recent post about SNA at Braintrust spurred this train of though. Many of us have heard about Google's Page Rank Algorithm. It has grown in complexity over time, but the basic idea has been explai