Blogging and knowledge management

Sifting through my old blog accomplishments, I see that I already in 2003 had some interresting thoughts regarding the use of weblogs as a knowledge management tool. Referring managing knowledge work, I note that weblogs may be able to bridge the gap between codified and personalized knowledge.
Personalized and codified knowledge is described thusly:

  • Codification: Knowledge is is carefully codified and stored in databases where it can be accessed and used readily by anyone in the company (p. 107 in Hansen et al.)
  • Personalization: Knowledge is closely tied to the person who developed it and is shared mainly through direct p2p contacts (ibid)
  • (havent found the correct reference to Hansen et al. – working on it…)

    As such, blogs may be described as a connecting medium between the two extremes ‘codified’ and personalized knowledge, as that is what blogs do: personalizing knowledge in the process of codifying it (writing it down). Furthermore the comment/trackback functionalities facilitates p2p interaction.

    The above is a commented translation of the post found at the shared knowledge blog.

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