Transcript Blogging for knowledge workers Lilia Efimova researching changing workplace social media knowledge learning personal benefits of blogging @ work incubating ideas networking facilitating blogging.

Blogging
for
knowledge workers
Lilia Efimova
researching
changing workplace
social media
knowledge
learning
personal benefits of
blogging @ work
incubating ideas
networking
facilitating blogging
ideas:
awareness & articulation
sense-making
turning into a product
things
that do not fit
parked in a
trusted external repository
writing
re-reading and organising
feedback and discussion
to develop ideas further
fragmented bits
low-threshold first drafts
manageable chunks
real audience
networking:
finding and being found
getting to know from a distance
bonding through interaction
getting things done
staying 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 blogging
individual passions & investment
social effects
organisational conditions
time and effort
effects: unpredictable & indirect
weblog uses
personally meaningful
in a long term
flexibility + aligning with work,
not business targets
ecosystem of bits and people
readership
broadest possible reach
visibility via indexes & search
tools to monitor feedback
be prepared for unexpected
trust + coaching
resources + appreciation
integration + reuse
Questions?
PhD
iceberg.novay.nl
blog.mathemagenic.com/phd/dissertation
Slides and links
blog.mathemagenic.com/2010/03/23/ibm
More
futureworkspaces.nl