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Why Employees Don't Share What They Know

I just dropped in on the Knowledge Management conference of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. I feel like most of us are still focused too much on taxonomies and data storage. I wanted to share this article with the conference attendees: A summary of a Harry Scarbrough article on Why Employees Don't Share What They Know. It contains a fabulous table of knowledge cultures and recommended interventions. Posted: 3/17/04; 4:51:19 PM #

A Year After Iraq War

Tomorrow is the anniversary of my editorial on the tragic U.S. attack on Iraq. I take little satisfaction from having been vindicated in many of my arguments by subsequent revelations about the cost of the war and its false justifications. But I do want to share with you the Pew report on A Year After Iraq War. Being an advocate for some basic principles of civil society, it makes me very sad to be a citizen of a country that has lost the trust of so much of the world. Posted: 3/17/04; 4:51:11 PM #

Cooking with the Internet: A Recipe for Grassroots Success

In Cooking with the Internet: A Recipe for Grassroots Success, Jonathan Peizer looks back at the public feast that was the Howard Dean campaign and identifies the essential five course meal that contributes to online success. His ingredients are a salient issue, effective organizers, an efficient platform for organizing, resources, and leadership. That's not so different from the principles of old school organizing, which reassures me that the author is probably right on. Posted: 3/17/04; 4:51:01 PM #

State of the News Media 2004: Eight Major Trends

A report on the State of the News Media has identified Eight Major Trends that are, in my opinion, important to anyone in the business of information. In short, those trends are: 1. A growing number of news outlets are chasing relatively static or even shrinking audiences for news. 2. Much of the new investment in journalism today - much of the information revolution generally - is in disseminating the news, not in collecting it. 3. In many parts of the news media, we are increasingly getting the raw elements of news as the end product. 4. Journalistic standards now vary even inside a single news organization. 5. Without investing in building new audiences, the long-term outlook for many traditional news outlets seems problematic. 6. Convergence seems more inevitable and potentially less threatening to journalists than it may have seemed a few years ago. 7. The biggest question may not be technological but economic. 8. Those who would manipulate the press and public appear to be gaining leverage over the journalists who cover them. Posted: 3/17/04; 4:50:44 PM #

My Social Networks Are Broken
	Stuart March rants effectively that his social networks are broken. All these new software sites are trying to own the mapping of your relationships when, in fact, open protocols based on communication tools we already use would enable us each to own them, and not have a dozen sites to search through. Posted: 3/17/04; 4:50:31 PM #

Dust or Magic 2004

I wish I were going to England later this month and speaking at the Dust or Magic 2004 Conference. Aside from having a wonderful name, it has a lovely purpose: "Dust or Magic is a conference about how people do 'good stuff' with computers: games, hypertexts, web sites, interfaces, software tools. It's for everyone who's seriously concerned about the fate of creative work and creative workers in the 'new-media' workplace. We talk about software and hardware, design, industry economics, workplace politics, psychology, each others' work, and the practicalities of making things that delight, as well as making a living." Posted: 3/17/04; 4:50:21 PM #