April 28th, 2006
Welcome to the KMBloggers Community!
A couple of days ago you would remember how I created a weblog post on the topic of Coming to Terms with Knowledge Management Webloggers where I was indicating how it would be a good opportunity now to establish a community of Knowledge Management bloggers where we could get together to share some of our thoughts / ideas on the KM happenings taking place out there in the blogosphere and elsewhere, of course. So after having received several e-mails from folks, who would like to become part of that community, and having had a number of discussions, I am glad to present you the KMBloggers Community.
During the course of those discussions with different KMers on how to get started with this community of KM bloggers, we decided to get things going by making use of two different tools in order to help us get together. I am sure you would be aware of both tools since one of them is a key resource for KMers alike and the second one is just one hosted in one of the most popular group tools out there.
Indeed, after having considered a few options we have decided to have:
- A Yahoo! group: KMBloggers.
- A Wikispaces wiki: KMWiki (A space originally put together by Denham Grey).
In principle, the community is open to everyone interested in Knowledge Management and related topics. However, we encourage as well that KMers who maintain a weblog on KM related topics would become part of the community in order to get involved in the different conversations. Thus if you feel that you would want to contribute into this new KM space where you will be an integral part of it feel free to signup at KMBloggers and register into the KMWiki.
At this very moment KMWiki has got already lots of different content, including a starting list of KM bloggers and although the KMBloggers Yahoo! group has not been populated yet with content it will start getting some over the course of the next couple of days. Thus go ahead and sign up now while we get ready different bits and pieces.
If you have got any questions or further comments feel free to append them over here or just contact me offline. Feel free as well to pass this message along to all those folks interested in KM who you feel would be keen on becoming part of this new community around the role that social software like wikis and weblogs is currently playing in the Knowledge Management world.
Hope to see you there soon !
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April 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Welcome to the KMBloggers Community!…
A few days ago I created a weblog post over at my other Internet weblog where I was indicating how it would have been a good time right now to actually create a community, with its own space, of KM……
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Luis - This is excellent. I was unaware that Denham had stared a KM wiki, so I’m off to check it out. I will also be linking up with the Yahoo! group. Thanks again for bringing this to the forefront. Regards - Tom.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Hi Tom ! Thanks very much for the feedback comments and for dropping by. I shall certainly be looking forward to your involvement in both the KMWiki and the KMBloggers group. I must say that I had the intention of sharing some further information in the Yahoo group but with the current conference event I am attending at the moment I am having a great time and not finding enough time to do other stuff. But as soon as I return I will start sharing some further information I wanted to share all along. Thus stay tuned!
Let us know if you feel there is also some further information details you would like to see or share.
May 9th, 2006 at 9:13 am
[…] While I was getting ready and prepared for the presentation I did on Personal Knowledge Management at the IBM TLE event last week I got to read some very interesting stuff on the subject of PKM and I thought I would just pick up some of those thoughts and place them over here. One reference material that I found worth while reading and commenting on because of its thought-provoking nature was Denham’s take on Personal Knowledge Management available at the KMWiki space (One of the main collaborative tools for the KMBloggers community that we recently launched). Specially this particular fragment: “My thoughts tend to be somewhat away from the PKM mainstream, as I favor collective knowledge creation, vetting and sense-making. IMO, PKM is closely tied to personal learning and inquiry which is all about social practices. Leverage does not come from personal thought organization or access, but from a network of weak ties, dialog and awareness in community. It is not the tools or practices you use, but the empathy you feel and the relationships you maintain, - these determine how effective you are at knowledge creation, how aware you are and what you learn.“ […]
May 11th, 2006 at 10:06 am
[…] Network with other bloggers: “Build relationships, do not just sit back and hope things will happen“. I know, perhaps one of the critical success factors for any weblogger out there who wants to succeed at it. This is the main reason why I ventured into creating with Denham the KMBloggers community. I always felt that if you would want to network with other webloggers you probably would be better off not just participating in their weblogs but also getting them together in the same space where conversations could flow in multiple levels and with a whole bunch of participants. That is why as things settled down again, after being gone whole of last week, I have got a whole pack of stuff to share to get those conversations going and that would be happening over the next day or two. Thus stay tuned ! Join the KMBloggers community today! (Or whatever other network of webloggers you would feel identified with) […]
May 31st, 2006 at 10:34 am
[…] And, finally, perhaps the one definition of them all that I feel the most comfortable with thus far. It is coming from Denham Grey and you can find it as well over at the KMBloggers community wiki space KMWiki: “A practice concerned with increasing awareness, fostering learning, speeding collaboration & innovation and exchanging insights. There is a delicate balance to be maintained between explicit and tacit, between personal and community, between collecting assets and enabling flows, between looking inward and externally, between mining and capturing insights and building on shared experiences.” […]
June 9th, 2006 at 9:08 am
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June 9th, 2006 at 9:54 am
[…] Along those lines Harold shared as well how he is making use of his weblog to store some of his thoughts as he goes along and also encourages everyone to actually subscribe to a number of weblogs (He is actually making use of BlogLines for that, whereas I am using both Omea Pro and Newzie) so that you actually get an exposure of what is actually happening out there in the KM world. This follows the same trend of thought of what Denham weblogged about some time ago on KM on-line discourse. The KM conversations are getting more and more disperse and distributed so it may be a good chance for you to actually start diving into the KM Blogosphere and subscribe to a number of them and get yourself busy sharing your thoughts with others. To that effect I have just uploaded an updated version of the KM feeds that I am subscribed to at the moment. About 84 of them and growing … You can download them from the following link: elsua KM Feeds (Notice that in order to access the zipped file you would need to be a member of the KMBloggers Community). Over time and as I bump into more interesting KM weblogs I will be updating the file on a regular basis, thus you may want to take a look every now and then. […]
June 20th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
[…] While Jack was going through the presentation I just couldn’t help thinking about the good amount of similarities with the whole purpose of why we first got started with the KMBloggers community. A community space for KM webloggers to connect with one another, reading from each other’s weblogs, expanding further on each other’s ideas and to provide a platform that would help encourage all of us to try to reach out there. Thus if you feel that you would want to become part of that KM Community just go ahead and join the KMBloggers community […]
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December 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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