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Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War

Continental Divide

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I found this post a while back and put it in my link farm (the bottom corner of the desktop where I put all the links I don’t have time to get to) and finally got around to reading it.  IT IS AWESOME and I couldn’t agree more.

It starts off swinging and really never stops:

You’d think Knowledge Management (KM), that venerable IT-based social engineering discipline which came up with evocative phrases like “community of practice,” “expertise locater,” and “knowledge capture,” would be in the vanguard of the 2.0 revolution. You’d be wrong.

I think the next point Venkat makes is just as juicey.

KM and SM look very similar on the surface, but are actually radically different at multiple levels, both cultural and technical, and are locked in an undeclared cultural war for the soul of Enterprise 2.0. And the most hilarious part is that most of the combatants don’t even realize they are in a war. They think they are loosely-aligned and working towards the same ends, with some minor differences of emphasis.

He goes on to talk about his experience and history – how he first realized this was “game on” and I can really see his point.

I also absolutly love the 3 generations stuff and cannot wait to explain why “best practices” is “old school” to my boomer buddies who preach it!

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Web 3.0 is like Ponoko

WOW - Vint Cerf in Buenos Aires (Internet's Dad & Google's Chief Internet Evangelist)Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via Flickr

No not pinocchio, this is Ponoko.  What is Ponoko you ask?  “…the world’s largest marketplace for product plans. Creators and consumers use these plans to share, buy, sell and make individualized goods.”

So people can make, share, sell and buy…well, stuff.  Ponoko has started out making a framework, they have some guidelines (like materials, size restrictions and such) but you design it.  When you tell the world via the Ponoko site.  The you browse the site and buy stuff.

Now you may buy the plans, you may buy a kit.  But it is all about collaboration and open sourced relationships.  People can get what they want and others can sell what they have.

It’s a great model – sounds a lot like Web 3.0 – or as it has been called “The Semantic Web“.  There are a number of frameworks being built.  (Amazon’s Web Services, Google App Engine, Microsoft Mesh, Salesforece.com/Force.com)

It’s like some people are good designers and some have cash in hand, ready to buy.  Let’s let the designers do that on an open system and then let the people with money jump in and buy.

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