Comments on: Blogs, Wikis, Forums, Email – the differences – Part 2 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Anonymous Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:02:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/#comment-451 Thanks April. Knowledge dispersal is a key element of knowledge management. I am looking forward to your experiments with the Q&A blog. Hope to learn more from you. Thanks April. Knowledge dispersal is a key element of knowledge management. I am looking forward to your experiments with the Q&A blog. Hope to learn more from you.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Anonymous Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/#comment-449 Another set of good points Arun. In my view, email is so much overused for everything inside the coorporation that corporate spam is a big problem. So we are moving all such updates from KM systems and soon other systems into RSS Feeds. You can subscribe to them. I like your leaderboard idea. we use similar concepts on our forums and blogs. Another set of good points Arun. In my view, email is so much overused for everything inside the coorporation that corporate spam is a big problem. So we are moving all such updates from KM systems and soon other systems into RSS Feeds. You can subscribe to them. I like your leaderboard idea. we use similar concepts on our forums and blogs.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Anonymous Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:58:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/#comment-447 Thanks Arun. Good points about wikis. Agreed. Thanks Arun. Good points about wikis. Agreed.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Anonymous Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/#comment-450 Thanks Sukumar and everyone else for your insights. I'm tussling with switching from a weekly science Q&A column to a blog Q&A. Either is a form of knowledge management, though more of a knowledge dispersal. Which form is better? Hard to say. I'm beginning to lean towards a blog. Sukamar suggested the notion; the rationale is persuasive. ---April Thanks Sukumar and everyone else for your insights. I’m tussling with switching from a weekly science Q&A column to a blog Q&A. Either is a form of knowledge management, though more of a knowledge dispersal. Which form is better? Hard to say. I’m beginning to lean towards a blog. Sukamar suggested the notion; the rationale is persuasive.

—April

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Anonymous Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/06/blogs-wikis-forums-email-the-differences-part-2/#comment-448 As you have rightly pointed out, email has the lowest barrier to entry and the lowest barrier to sustainable contributions. But again, blogs and wikis have medium to high barriers to entry and high sustainability barriers. So the key to get a blogging and wiki initiative kicked of successfully within a company are: -- Integrating blog posts and wiki articles into the email inbox as this will lower barrier to readership by allowing the janta to read the posts -- Make it easy for novice readers to find good blogs and wiki posts -- Providing feedback to the blog and wiki writer on reader numbers ---------------------------------------------- Integrating blogs and wikis into email ----------------------------------------------- -- Make it easy for readers to sign up for updates to specific blogs and topics. Let the full post be emailed into the inbox -- Allow readers to comment on posts by replying to the emails directly -- Have an email alert sent to all commenters whenever there is a new comment ---------------------------------------------- Make it easy to find good blogs and wiki articles ----------------------------------------------- -- Have a leaderboard of blogs based on popularity, comments, ratings etc (Check out "Hot blogs" on the right of the SUN blog site - http://blogs.sun.com/) -- Hire 1-2 staff for the 1st year to pick out good articles and post them on a special webpage -- Have a newsletter sent every week to all employees of the firm with the leaderboard and good articles. This will increase awareness and also give recognition As you have rightly pointed out, email has the lowest barrier to entry and the lowest barrier to sustainable contributions.

But again, blogs and wikis have medium to high barriers to entry and high sustainability barriers.

So the key to get a blogging and wiki initiative kicked of successfully within a company are:

– Integrating blog posts and wiki articles into the email inbox as this will lower barrier to readership by allowing the janta to read the posts

– Make it easy for novice readers to find good blogs and wiki posts

– Providing feedback to the blog and wiki writer on reader numbers

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Integrating blogs and wikis into email

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– Make it easy for readers to sign up for updates to specific blogs and topics. Let the full post be emailed into the inbox

– Allow readers to comment on posts by replying to the emails directly

– Have an email alert sent to all commenters whenever there is a new comment

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Make it easy to find good blogs and wiki articles

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– Have a leaderboard of blogs based on popularity, comments, ratings etc

(Check out “Hot blogs” on the right of the SUN blog site – http://blogs.sun.com/)

– Hire 1-2 staff for the 1st year to pick out good articles and post them on a special webpage

– Have a newsletter sent every week to all employees of the firm with the leaderboard and good articles. This will increase awareness and also give recognition

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