I realise that many of you, like me , are hard at the old revision and improving the sales of coffee throughout London as we work late into the night. Well just for a little light relief I thought you might enjoy a video that I pieced together for fun to accompany a new track that the band I am in recorded.
This won't get released as it has far too many copyright issues with the various clips used but I thought it would be fun to put together for our own enjoyment.
So here it is just thought I might share it with the class for a laugh. Hope you enjoy it too.
here is the link
RobotDoctor_Studio.wmv
Cheers
Monday, 20 April 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Utilising web 2.0 technologies for Knowledge Sharing
In April 2009 the G20 summit saw hundreds of protestors converge on the city of London to voice their dissatisfaction against the current financial situation and issues around the controversy surrounding the banking community. A protest is nothing new but what was interesting was the way that information about the event was distributed. The BBC news service combined regular news reporting techniques of roving reporters and camera crews with accounts from blogs to bring new information into the stories. Most surprising was the introduction of twitter and texts into the event commentaries by the BBC News Team's website. Twitter is a micro blogging service that allows a short text based message known as a tweet, 140 character maximum, to be posted to people within a social network. Traditional reporting methods would not have been able to access such a diverse set of communities simultaneously and these tools allow access to information and views that previously may have been overlooked or simply unavailable. The change in reporting style of events has come from the BBC’s investment and belief in utilising web 2.0 technologies to share knowledge amongst staff and colleagues. Mackenzie(2006) identified that the organisation had invested in the new technology to encourage information sharing amongst its staff in 1999 and at the time of writing had identified: “about 200 staff blogs – including one by Richard Sambrook, head of global news.” This process and innovative approach to knowledge sharing has developed considerably as the organisation have extended the use of blogging as a way to communicate with customers of their services and engage with them as a differentiator in a strategy to gain competitive advantage and control over subscribers to their news service and TV and radio channels.
The inclusion of these latest web 2.0 technologies in news reporting is also being reflected in knowledge management practices within organisations. Traction software ,KM world (2009), have recently developed an enterprise tool for using s micro messaging technology to enable team collaboration by “connect internal teams and development partners, suppliers and customers working on projects that span the globe” .
The introduction of tools such as Twitter, Wiki’s and blogs are developing generations of users accustomed to operating within IT supported social networks communities who create, exchange, store and comment on information. If organisations can begin to harness the principles that their employees are already employing in a social context and transfer that to a work environment, there is a greater potential to manage codified and tacit knowledge. This could be especially effective in small to medium sized organisations where there is usually a greater social interaction due to the flattened nature of the organisational structure. Hutchison and Quintas (2008) suggest that:
“Many formal KM approaches focus on technological systems (such as IT-systems as opposed to person-based initiatives) that are costly and are designed specifically for the larger organization”
So these less formalised tools, such as bloggs, could be used to adapt to the inherent flexibility of a smaller organisation and allow information to be exchanged and utilised more rapidly taking a leaf out of the book of innovators such as the BBC. Technology to support KM systems could then be implemented within without incurring the expense of more costly initiatives created for larger organisations that would subsequently need adapting to an SME structure. Hutchison and Quintas (2008) site McAdam and Reid (2001) who identify that many influential publications on KM focus on the the practices of large companies and it appears that the focus on the SME has only come to light over the last few years. As more tools like Blogs, wiki's and twitter are introduced into the technology of social based networks, then the more flexible structure of an SME may be able to adapt these technologies to support any KM strategy initiatives.
References
BBC News Team, (2009),Global leaders begin G20 summit , Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7978171.stm [accessed on 1st April 2009]
CHAN, I. and CHEE-KWONG CHAO, 2008. Knowledge Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Communications of the ACM, 51(4), pp. 83-88.
HUTCHINSON, V. and QUINTAS, P., 2008. Do SMEs do Knowledge Management?: Or Simply Manage what they Know? International Small Business Journal, 26(2), pp. 131-154.
Traction announces Live Blog. 2009. KM World, 18(2), pp. 22-22.
The inclusion of these latest web 2.0 technologies in news reporting is also being reflected in knowledge management practices within organisations. Traction software ,KM world (2009), have recently developed an enterprise tool for using s micro messaging technology to enable team collaboration by “connect internal teams and development partners, suppliers and customers working on projects that span the globe” .
The introduction of tools such as Twitter, Wiki’s and blogs are developing generations of users accustomed to operating within IT supported social networks communities who create, exchange, store and comment on information. If organisations can begin to harness the principles that their employees are already employing in a social context and transfer that to a work environment, there is a greater potential to manage codified and tacit knowledge. This could be especially effective in small to medium sized organisations where there is usually a greater social interaction due to the flattened nature of the organisational structure. Hutchison and Quintas (2008) suggest that:
“Many formal KM approaches focus on technological systems (such as IT-systems as opposed to person-based initiatives) that are costly and are designed specifically for the larger organization”
So these less formalised tools, such as bloggs, could be used to adapt to the inherent flexibility of a smaller organisation and allow information to be exchanged and utilised more rapidly taking a leaf out of the book of innovators such as the BBC. Technology to support KM systems could then be implemented within without incurring the expense of more costly initiatives created for larger organisations that would subsequently need adapting to an SME structure. Hutchison and Quintas (2008) site McAdam and Reid (2001) who identify that many influential publications on KM focus on the the practices of large companies and it appears that the focus on the SME has only come to light over the last few years. As more tools like Blogs, wiki's and twitter are introduced into the technology of social based networks, then the more flexible structure of an SME may be able to adapt these technologies to support any KM strategy initiatives.
References
BBC News Team, (2009),Global leaders begin G20 summit , Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7978171.stm [accessed on 1st April 2009]
CHAN, I. and CHEE-KWONG CHAO, 2008. Knowledge Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Communications of the ACM, 51(4), pp. 83-88.
HUTCHINSON, V. and QUINTAS, P., 2008. Do SMEs do Knowledge Management?: Or Simply Manage what they Know? International Small Business Journal, 26(2), pp. 131-154.
Traction announces Live Blog. 2009. KM World, 18(2), pp. 22-22.
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