E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

Writing Great Ezines and Blogs – How to Improve Your Web Writing Experience

Now that I have recovered from the recent outage of elsua, it is that date of the week again, folks, where all of the community members from the LinkedIn webloggers will be creating a new weblog post over at their own weblogs in order to help promote the weblog from other community members. If you would remember, last week I talked about Conversationblog and this time around I will be talking about about one other weblog that I have been enjoying for a few weeks already as it provides lots of different hints and tips around the metablogging topic of good and effect web writing: Writing Great Ezines and Blogs from Patsi Krakoff.

Indeed, in this particular weblog you will see how Patsi Krakoff gets to share some very interesting articles on how to get the most out of the web writing experience, whether you are thinking about your weblog(s), or whatever other methods of sharing knowledge and information on the Web, like newsletters, Ezines, articles, etc. In her weblog you will find an entire section on How to … Tips and Promoting your Ezine +/or Blog which will fit in quite nicely with the different weblog posts I have shared already on tips on how you can get more traffic for your weblog. So those folks interested in getting some more exposure for their web writings, specially weblog(s), they would have a good chance to learn a whole lot more from Patsi’s weblog Writing Great Ezines and Blogs from Patsi Krakoff.

Take, for example, the last weblog post she has shared on the subject Google School Starts Tomorrow, where she is just detailing the teleseminar Dave Taylor and Steven Van Yoder will be hosting over the next three months “[...] on everything you need to know about Google to grow your business”. Oh, by the way, if you think your business could benefit from such tip I would suggest that you go ahead and sign up at http://www.howtogrowyourbiz.com/ in order to attend the seminar.

Thus as you will be able to read further on Patsi has got lots of different tips on how you can make sharing knowledge and information on the Web a lot easier than whatever you may have thought about in the past. I know that with the hype around weblogging going on at the moment, where everyone seems to know how to weblog, sometimes you may want to go the extra mile and certainly Writing Great Ezines and Blogs from Patsi Krakoff would be a good start to improve things further a bit. Pretty much the same thing as what you could get if you are subscribed already to ProBlogger, How to Blog or even Building a Better Blog, where Patsi is one of the co-authors next to Denise Wakeman. Small world, indeed !

Technorati Tags: Metablogging, eZine, Professional Web Writing, Web Writing

elsua Coming Back up Online Again

A couple of folks have contacted me indicating that elsua seemed to have been down for a majority of last night and during the course of today and I just wanted to confirm that yes, that was the case for the last few hours. And no, it is not an indication that I am going to shut down my personal / business weblog. It is just that it looks like elsua is starting to get noticed out there because I have exceeded the bandwidth for the month way before it was expected and therefore everything seemed to be down this morning and late last night.

But not to worry, folks. I have just been talking to the folks where I am hosting the weblog, back in the US, and it is now up and running again with a bit more bandwidth to cover for the next few weeks, hopefully, months. So if you were thinking : “Off it goes. Another weblog that bites the dust”, that is certainly not the case. I will still be here for a little while longer

One thing though that has made me think about it over the last few hours is that this is another good reason for not wanting to be very popular in the wild Blogosphere out there ! hehe, Yes, I know, I am just kidding, folks.

Anyway, things are back to normal now and you should be able to access everything back again, including the feeds which should be working as well. Oh, by the way, and in case you haven’t noticed (Not that you would need to, anyway) elsua is now running WordPress 2.0.2. And I do hope that Trackbacks to other non WordPress weblogs do work once and for all. We shall see how that goes. 

Thanks again to all those folks who have pinged me to let me know about the temporary outage. Appreciated.

Technorati Tags: Metablogging, elsua, WordPress

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:

• actKM
• com-prac
• onlinefacilitation
• Knowledge-Management-Systems
• Knowledge Management
• KMTool

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:

• IceRocket
• Gada.be
• Keotag

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 ??

Technorati Tags: Knowledge Management, KM, Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing