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:
(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.
