March 28th, 2006
KM Awareness - Tell Me What You Read and I Will Tell You Who You Are
In a recent weblog post Denham Grey was actually asking everyone out there who would want to chime in and share their two cents worth of commentary on the following question: “So exactly how do you follow KM ??” Indeed, in KM awareness he is actually wondering what resources KMers are actually checking out at this very moment as opposed to whatever else was happening in the past. So I thought I would go ahead and try to answer his question sharing some of the main resources that I get to check on a regular basis in order to follow Knowledge Management. And to get us started I am just going to use the same structure that Denham has used as well:
Use an aggregator:
- I have been trying a number of them but lately I have been quite content with using Omea Pro. Very powerful and scalable feed reader that allows me to keep track of all of my RSS Newsfeeds. And talking about RSS Newsfeeds you can download my current list of KM feeds from the following URL: elsua’s KM feeds (Notice that you would need to be a member of the KMBloggers community in order to access the zipped file). As I go along I will be updating the same file on the same location, perhaps on a monthly basis.
- Next to making use of del.icio.us‘ tags for KM I also follow quite regularly these tags from BlinkList: KM, KnowledgeManagement, Learning&Knowledge, Collaboration, PKM, SocialNetworking, SocialSoftware, Communitiesofpractice.
Subscribe to listservs, Yahoo groups and KM groups:
Although not very active in the different Yahoo and KM groups that I follow (I guess I am more the type of a lurker) these are the groups that I monitor on a more or less regular basis:
Participate in KM Forums:
I used to be a whole lot more active in this KM space but over time and as I have been getting much more involved with the KM blogosphere it has taken its share and therefore not getting there as often as I would like. However, with that said and if you would want to participate in one I can certainly recommend Brint. Perhaps this may be good time to come back.
Conduct regular searches and reading standard KM web sites:
Apart from the different resources that Denham mentions from some very popular search engines a couple of other search engines I tend to check every now and then are the following ones:
And as far as standard or regular web sites there are some of them that I tend to check every now and then to see what is going on in those KM spaces. Here you have got a list of my favourite ones:
- APQC
- Knowledge Management Online - KM Online - Open Source KM
- Cynefin
- eKnowledgeCenter
- The Gurteen Knowledge web site
- Inside Knowledge
- Knowledge Connections
- KM Basics
- KMWorld
- KMTool
- Sveiby Knowledge Associates
- Wikipedia’s Knowledge Management article
As you will be able to see lots of different and diverse resources to follow up on regarding Knowledge Management, and a few other related disciplines to KM. I, too, agree with Denham and perhaps now the place to be are weblogs, at least, that is where I spend most of my time. And that is also the main purpose of the two weblogs that I maintain on the Internet: a repository of ideas, thoughts and opinions on KM that I may want to revisit at some point in time and be able to reuse it for whatever purpose.
So exactly how do you follow KM ??
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April 6th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
[...] If in the past most of the content indexed by Qwika was coming from Wikipedia, it looks like with this press release it will now also search the contents of Wikia, the former Wikicities, a place I have been watching closely lately where you can find a good number of wiki spaces related to Knowledge Management. In fact, here you have got the results from Qwika related to Knowledge Management. As you will be able to see lots of interesting resources related to the KM world and which would fit in quite nicely next to a weblog post I shared not long ago: KM Awareness - Tell Me What You Read and I Will Tell You Who You Are. Another resource we would need to add to the growing list of KM resources. [...]
April 10th, 2006 at 11:28 am
[...] Two of the Knowledge Management feeds that I am subscribed to, and perhaps worth while mentioning as part of the KM Awareness resources, are Planet KM and the group feed from Knowledge Management in Blogdigger. Both feeds will provide you with a whole bunch of single KM feeds from various weblogs, including both of my Internet weblogs, and all of that integrated into a single RSS newsfeed that you can subscribe to and get all of that content in a single place, instead of having to subscribe to multiple places. Pretty interesting and very easy to follow up on. [...]
April 25th, 2006 at 9:21 am
[...] The sign up page for new groups requires that you enter a group URL so that people could relate to it, and while thinking about it, I just couldn’t think of a representative enough URL in the KM world that I would go ahead and use. I thought about entering Wikipedia’s KM entry, along with a whole bunch of the resources I shared over at the KM Awareness weblog post I created some time ago, but none of them felt right, if you know what I mean. And that is when it got me. There are plenty of really good KM bloggers, and KM thinkers, out there but we (If I may say so) all seem to be scattered around all over the place without a clear connection. A connection where we could all meet up and discuss some of the really good ideas we have been bouncing back and forth trying to help enrich them a whole lot more. [...]