Archive for March, 2008

Tacit Knowledge and Social Networks

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I've always tended to hang my KM hat on the value of tacit knowledge and helping organizations leverage that mostly untapped resource.  Those that have been readers of KM News for any length of time are aware of my definition of KM - KM is about connectedness; connecting people to people and ...

Microsoft Buys Credentica U-Prove

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

It was announced today that Microsoft has purchased Credntica's U-Prove technology. Trust (and privacy) is a key aspect of connectedness. We share more with people we trust and less with those we don't. As Kim Cameron puts it, U-Prove works on a "need to know" basis. If a ...

Does Daylight Savings Time Save Energy

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Daylight savings time kicks in here in the United States this weekend.  That's almost a full month earlier than in the past.  Does this really save energy? A recent study conducted by Matthew Kotchen and Ph.D. student Laura Grant from UCSB indicates that it costs Indiana residents approximately an additional $8.6mm ...

Empower the followers

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

WSJ: Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers (subscription may be required) I suppose it is encouraging to see a Harvard lecturer and the Wall Street Journal focusing attention on what many (most?) of us in the KM space have known for ever....that it's is the little guy, the masses, the worker bees ...