Yes, yes, yes, another blog, just what our troubled world needs right now and just what the information management world doesn't (in my organisation there is currently witchhunt going on in the form of deduplication, driving out the evil content and trying to sift out the truly pure content...)
This blog will mostly focus on issues relating to knowledge. Knowledge management (km) specifically, but since that is almost hackneyed management-speak these days, knowledge fostering, information sharing and content management.
km matters will offer news, views, tools and tips. It will not solve the world's problems, or your personal life, for that matter. But I am interested in hearing from you. A dialogue, rather than a conversation. I do not know where km matters is going, I do not know how we are going to get there, but the ship is launched.
In Allen Curnow's immortal words
Simply by sailing in a new direction
You could enlarge the world.
You picked your captain,
Keen on discoveries, tough enough to make them,
Whatever vessels could be spared from other
More urgent service for a year's adventure;
Took stock of the more probable conjectures
About the Unknown to be traversed, all
Guesses at golden coasts and tales of monsters
To be digested into plain instructions
For likely and unlikely situations.
You could enlarge the world.
You picked your captain,
Keen on discoveries, tough enough to make them,
Whatever vessels could be spared from other
More urgent service for a year's adventure;
Took stock of the more probable conjectures
About the Unknown to be traversed, all
Guesses at golden coasts and tales of monsters
To be digested into plain instructions
For likely and unlikely situations.
So, top ten reasons for starting this blog
10. It is fun!
9. It forces me to get down in writing some of the ideas running around my head - perhaps even formulate them in a more traditional way.
8. Maybe km matters might uncover something useful to somebody somewhere – or maybe not – but surely this is worth the attempt?
7. There is a dearth of km websites and publications in Aotearoa / New Zealand and few online forums devoted to the topic – so the opportunity for informed opinion, news and views appears wide open. [Why is that? And how come there is no established online km community in this country? Does that not seem odd?]
6. By no means is km matters the only way to build and foster a km community in Aotearoa/New Zealand, but a blog is just one of many potential avenues for sharing and developing ideas.
5. Most of the really interesting km ideas I have picked up have involved either some form of personal discovery (an experience or event) or communication.
4. A blog can broach knowledge management and knowledge issues with a wide audience, nationally, but also internationally.
3. Does it matter whether anyone reads km matters – ("if a tree falls with nobody around to hear it…")? Of course it matters! Hopefully this blog can add value, inspire responses, generate content.
2. This blog is a testing ground for knowledge sharing ideas, processes and technology [Excuses in advance for any experimentation...]
And the number one reason for starting this blog…1. If I am truly serious about the potential for blogs in knowledge and information management, then surely I must practise what I preach.
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