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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Monday, August 26, 2002CNET: Dell trumps HP with Rackspace deal. Dell Computer wins a multimillion-dollar contract to provide servers and data storage equipment to data-hosting company Rackspace.
Interesting. My former employer stopped buying from Dell immediately after they entered the web hosting business. DellHost's pricing is quite competive with Rackspace. Personally, I believe in commodity servers for large-scale deployments. Intel's line of server chassis and platforms are just the ticket.
Rick Klau: Corporate Blog PolicyThe IT guy behind the Intranet was intrigued by the notion of letting everyone in the company contribute. From his perspective, it just meant that the "editors" would have to do less work.
Though I hadn't thought of it, that's as compelling a reason to look into corporate blogs as any.
Rick just nailed something for me. My positive experience using a centralized CMS for KM owes much to user empowerment. About 15% of my users could create documents within the CMS, many could make those documents "live", and there were daily e-mail reports on additions and changes to make sure that no document was forgotten.
The most important part of KM is the extraction of knowledge. Organization and distribution can always be deferred, but you can't extract knowledge once an employee has moved on or been hit by a bus.
A KM strategy that doesn't empower users to record and share knowledge is useless.
"Editors" should not be bottlenecks to knowledge flow.
If weblogs are your only option for empowering users, go for it.
