April 02
Knowledge Management 2.0 - A Structured (Blogging) Approach to Knowledge Management
As mentioned in my
last post, quite a few people commented on my presentation at
Barcamp , held almost a month back in sprawling Adobe campus in Delhi. I should have posted this a long time back, nevertheless here it is.
My presentation focused on how to build a quick solution to inculcate Knowledge Sharing in an organization, using the raw power and versatility, structured blogging (SB) gives you. In my opinion structured blogging has unlimited potential and can be put to use in a lot of innovative ways, Knowledge Management is just one of them.
So let me elaborate on how you could go about building a Knowledge Enterprise, using the SB plugin in a wordpress or movable type weblog publishing platform.
In general SB revolves around creating your own customizable templates. The templates are referred to as microcontent. The microcontent definitions are specified in an xml file. Now a standard knowledge management system allows you to publish the following types of artifacts:
- Reusable Code / Reusable Modules
- Learning's Based on Experience (LBoE)
- Fun Literature you want to share (like an article, story or quote)
- Reviews of certain Websites
- Event Material
- Tutorial
- Product Review or Product Comparison
So all you need to do is build the microcontent definitions corresponding to the above knowledge artifacts, and you have the ability to publish these content types.
Sure that's just the difficult part we solved. Here's how we further take the advantages which a blogging platform offers you to expand the capabilities of such a solution. The weblog platform will offer you an integrated search capability, integrated comments (which of course expands the realm of knowledge captured), ability to review content before publishing (a.k.a drafts) and even the functionality to rate content.
Again as I mentioned, this is a quick solution to Knowledge Management, and guess what, it comes to you at almost no cost. There are organizations who have spent millions of dollars to build systems which accomplish just all of the above I mentioned. However the power of SB and a little bit of innovative thought can get this system up in a matter of hours.
Now here is where I start dreaming, and dream about a world where we have standard templates and open formats for knowledge management, which are searchable, thus catapulting the world into one knowledge society, where it's so much easier to find bodies of knowledge and knowledge artifacts, related to any and every sphere of capital assets which are purely intellectual. With SB we have a platform and blogs have gained acceptability, so maybe my dream may soon turn into a reality.
The audience who attended my presentation at the barcamp
were sceptic about the possibilities of this, but nevertheless shared my dream.
In case you are interested in getting a copy of my presentation at barcamp, follow
this link.
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