Kind of continuing on the previous post about the creation of new knowledge. Lilia Efimova has wrote some interesting papers on the nature of blogging and it’s relation to knowledge. Although writing from the perspective of knowledge management within organizations, she establishes interesting concepts in which blogging may be useful in one’s stride to organize his or her knowledge. One may use a blog as personal content management system, I certainly have been doing that. Sometimes posts might not even be published, but just the fact that you must put them into readable thoughts, may help you in structuring your ideas for future access.
We can also use this space to create a conversation, which is a way of maintaining knowledge alive for a period of time — as long as the conversation is going on — and a way of polishing your arguments, which in itself may not be considered new knowledge, but as refinements of existing thoughts. You can gain however insights from comments and conversation, assuming that you amass the right audience for your topics. I personally am new to blogging, just about over a month, and the more I write it, it seems, at least, the more comfortable I feel about it. This is also another topic covered in one of her papers. Later I will certainly come back to them in more detail.
If you are interested in insightful research on blogs, here are some of Efimova’s papers on the topic.
- Efimova, L. Blogs: The Stickness Factor. Blogtalk: A European Conference on Blogs. 2003.
- _________. Discovering the iceberg of knowledge: A weblog case. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Organisational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities. 2004
- Efimova, L. and Hendrick, S. and Anjerwierden A. Finding “the life between buildings”: An approach for defining a weblog community.” Internet Research, Volume 6. 2005
- de Moor, A. and Efimova, L. An argumentation analysis of weblog conversations. Proc. LAP 04, New Brunswick. 2004.
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