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How does an intranet support knowledge management?

By ⋅ June 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Most organisations seem to have adopted intranets for communication and collaboration, but how should an organisation’s intranet support its knowledge management activities? From communities of practice to blogging and ultimately internal social networking, it’s something I’ve grappled with over the past eight years – trying, failing and hopefully learning at each stage of development. It’s a [...]

New paper on collaboration from Anecdote

By ⋅ April 22, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Since I work with a team who belong to a part of HR called “Culture”, I am excited when I see people looking at collaboration from that viewpoint rather than a purely technical one. Anecdote have just published a white paper on collaboration, written by Shawn Callahan, Mark Schenke and Nancy White. After spelling out [...]

A self-organising community

By ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Anecdote.com is proving an excellent source of stories about communities right now. A recent post about fostering relationships to support early community development highlighted several important factors we’ve included in CommunityBuilder, our framework for launching communities. The latest piece by Krista Schmeling recounts a story about the organic development of an on-line community and their [...]

"…Steak knives..!"

By ⋅ December 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Dave Snowden notes an interesting development in the life-cycle of KM. Amusingly, we’ve taken a similar approach to popularise KM in British American Tobacco, creating a series of products known as KnowledgeBuilder, CommunityBuilder and IdeaBuilder.Perhaps we could offer three products for the price of two? Though only for a limited period, naturally.

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