www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Taxonomies Without Commensurate Knowledge = Mistakes Here’s a story from Annalee Newitz of the problems that can arise when a taxonomy created for one purpose and one knowledge community, is used by others for new purposes. RSS2.0 MORE >>

of the social computing / collaboration platforms out there have features and functionality designed to offer support to gathering and processing information about peoples’ performance. I expect that this aspect will become more important as social computing and collaboration continue to grow and spread. First … no answers here. MORE >>

Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out: 20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014. 20% of businesses will use social network analysis by 2015. So many parallels. haven’t seen this trend. MORE >>

Now while there is considerable benefit to be gained from developing consistency and standards in vocabulary and categories across an organization (because it underpins knowledge sharing and coordination), too much standardization can be a very destructive thing. These are our knowledge neighbourhoods , arranged for different uses. MORE >>

Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out: 20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014. 20% of businesses will use social network analysis by 2015. maybe soon to include Google Buzz and/or Wave ?) MORE >>