I’m doing research on Blogging for Enterprise and learned about this new term “K- Logs”, or Knowledge Weblogs. It’s exciting to see this fresh concept and all its potential. For example, Evan Williams, co-creator of Blogger revealed how Blogger enables Google employees to update personal pages within seconds to the company intranet.
According to John Robb, CEO of UserLand, K-Logs provide a cost-effective solution to problem where corporate users report that they cannot find the information they need to do their jobs on their Intranets. The ROI of K-Logs system is estimated to reach 1,170% as compared to traditional portal system at 240%.
I should highlight David Gammel’s HighContext blog which compiles a number of good links related to the knowledge management, as well as “k-log” Yahoo Group where members discuss the uses of weblogs in knowledge management
Well, I shall summarize about what I’m going to do for the couple of months in this abstract:
In this information economy, it is essential that an organization able to appreciate and utilize the value of information to enhance its competitive edge. This is reflected by their ability to tap into the information that is available from both internal and external of the organization, transform it into knowledge to achieve organization goals. Beyond capturing and transforming information, organization must cultivate knowledge sharing culture and to build a community of practice. Information technology plays important role to achieve this objective by simplified information sharing process.
Recently, there is emerging phenomenon of personal publication on the web, known as weblogs, influenced with the increasing availability of low-cost personal publishing and management systems. Weblogs are identifiable by its reverse chronological format, where new entries are listed first. Several organizations recognized the potential of weblog as its knowledge portal, and coined the term of K-Logs, or knowledge weblog.
The availability of K-Logs raises questions on its impact to the organization? existing information sharing channels such as email, forum, intranet, and shared drives. Given the same content across these different channels, this research attempts to evaluate effect of user interface design on information that is the cognitive process involved in searching and understanding information. It is expected that the findings of this research projects could contribute in selecting appropriate channel for sharing information in organizations.