Blogging

for

knowledge workers Lilia Efimova

researching changing workplacesocial mediaknowledgelearning

personal benefits ofblogging @ workincubating ideasnetworking

facilitating blogging

ideas:awareness & articulationsense-makingturning into a product

thingsthat do not fitparked in atrusted external repository

writingre-reading and organisingfeedback and discussionto develop ideas further

fragmented bitslow-threshold first draftsmanageable chunksreal audience

networking:finding and being foundgetting to know from a distancebonding through interactiongetting things donestaying in touch

attractors "a big neon sign that invites others to come

and comment" "there is something special about somebody

coming to your place to leave their words there"

filters peer-filtering and recommendation

living portrait "you can pick up little subliminal or

subconscious or peripheral bits and pieces through what people write, how they write, how their blog looks, how they react to things"

asymmetry "they have a really good sense of who you are,

what you do, what interests you, and you don't even know their name"

comments and links "fragmented frequent conversation" "distributed sense-making networks"

other tools focused, private, vulnerable writing

meeting in person "picking up where we have left it in blogs"

weblog as a "screening device"foundation to work together shared understanding and trust "a feeling that just talking is not enough and

there is a shared need to do something together"

switching to other tools "if you want to set up a meeting you wouldn't

pontificate about life, the universe and such"

reading blogs

other tools microblogging! social networks presence indicators

business value of bloggingindividual passions & investmentsocial effectsorganisational conditions

time and efforteffects: unpredictable & indirect

weblog usespersonally meaningfulin a long term

flexibility + aligning with work,not business targets

ecosystem of bits and people

readershipbroadest possible reach visibility via indexes & searchtools to monitor feedback

be prepared for unexpected

trust + coachingresources + appreciationintegration + reuse

Questions?

PhDiceberg.novay.nlblog.mathemagenic.com/phd/dissertation

Slides and linksblog.mathemagenic.com/2010/03/23/ibm

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