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

Industry Trends: The Evolution of Knowledge Management (KM 1.0 vs. KM 2.0) by Jennifer Okimoto

Tags: Jennifer Okimoto, IBM, Slideshare, Social Media, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration 2.0, Collaboration, Communities, Learning, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, Learning and Knowledge, Personal Knowledge Management, PKM, KM, KM 1.0, KM 2.0, Remote Collaboration, Virtual Collaboration

Well, this is going to be the last blog post of the week. I promise. Perhaps a bit too intensive today, right? But I tell you, this article will be worth your time. And very much so! Why? Because more than anything else, I will be sharing with you one other presentation I have uploaded into Slideshare from one of my friends, and fellow IBM colleague, Jennifer Okimoto, who has put together an outstanding set of slides that clearly define how traditional Knowledge Management (a.k.a. KM 1.0) has progressed into next generation Knowledge Management, a.k.a. KM 2.0.

Yes, indeed, she has done a tremendous piece of research on watching what some of the different trends are there in the industry and she has come up with this particular slide deck that she has been using with one of IBM’s customers. I tell you, when I first saw it, I knew I had to share it outside of the corporate firewall. I felt so much identified with it in what I get to do on a daily basis that I just thought it would be too bad if I didn’t share it with you folks as well.

Jen’s presentation is one of those decks that I will be re-using over and over and over again, whenever someone would ask me where KM got started and where KM is at the moment. Call it whatever you want, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, Learning and Knowledge, whatever, it is still the very same thing: sharing your knowledge and collaborating with others while you learn how to be smarter at what you do and without not necessarily working harder.

This is it. This is what is all about. I could spend hours and hours going through each of the slides describing how good they are. But I am not going to do that. I am just going to share the direct link to it over here as well as the embedded version and let you enjoy what is probably one of the best presentations I have seen that captures how KM 1.0 has started the successful conversion into KM 2.0. And if not judge for yourselves:

Have a good one everyone!

(From here onwards I just want to take this opportunity to give my special thanks to Jen for the superb piece of work and, much more importantly, for allowing me to share it with you all! Just brilliant!)

Announcements…

Tags: Announcements, Fun Stuff, Humour, Globalisation

Well, not really. I mean, I was supposed to. A huge announcement, actually. Today. But when things need to happen in a certain way they do regardless, don’t they? In the last few days I have been twittering and sharing messages in my Facebook accont about this particular announcement and how I was planning on letting it out today, but alas, at the very last minute globalisation takes place, the news need to spread further first, before I can let them go out myself. Yes, I know. It happens sometimes.

But not to worry, that big announcement I will be sharing in my blogs will eventually be taking place beginning of next week. So stay tuned, because it is going to be way cool! Yes, indeed, just as cool as this one:

(Not to worry, it will not be just as hilarious as this one above! heh)

Social Media at IBM By Andy Piper

Tags: IBM, Andy Piper, European Corporate Blogging Summit, Summits, IBM, Social Software, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Personal Knowledge Management, KM, PKM, Blog Central, Blogs, Lotus Greenhouse, Podcasting, YouTube, greaterIBM, Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, Second Life, Virtual Worlds, Metaverse, Collaboration, Remote Collaboration, Communities, Online Communities, Conversations

During the course of yesterday a good friend of mine, and fellow IBM colleague, Andy Piper, got a chance to speak at the European Corporate Blogging Summit around the subject of how IBM has been embracing social software over the last couple of years, not only behind the corporate firewall, but also outside, to engage in further conversations with business partners and customers by sharing their knowledge, collaborating and innovating together in a social computing environment.

Just this morning, Andy created a post where he is actually blogging the presentation he used. 43 slides of pure delight going through some of the stuff that a whole bunch of us have been exposed to for a little while now. He is using Slideshare to host the presentation and, if you would want to check it out, here is the direct link to it.

In it, you would be able to see how Andy gets to describe how social computing is impacting the world of collaboration and knowledge sharing by empowering knowledge workers to share their own knowledge much easier. So, in it, you would be able to see how we are making use of blogs, with Blog Central (slide 10 and 11 have got both some stats and a screen shot of Andy’s internal blog for those interested), the Lotus Greenhouse (Which, I am sure, I would have the opportunity to blog some more about it shortly), etc. etc.

At the same time you would be able to check how IBM is making use of online / virtual / distributed communities to help on the adoption of those social software tools and from there onwards he gets to talk about other external social computing tools that some of us have been exposed to, and used quite extensively. For people already involved with them it may well be eventually the usual suspects: podcasting, YouTube, the greater IBM Connection, Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, virtual worlds (Second Life), etc.

Andy mentioned as well that he is working his way through the presentation to add the different speaker notes he covered during the event, but I just thought I would share with you the slide deck as a taster and then some time over the next couple of days you can come back and check the comments out. Knowing Andy, I am sure they will be worth it.

So, without much further ado, here is the direct link and the embedded presentation so that you get a chance to go through it. Hope you enjoy it:

(Thanks ever so much, Andy, for sharing the slide deck with us in Slideshare. Great stuff!)