Business Week: Blogs Will Change Your Business

"We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs. Go ahead and
bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them,
because they're simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world
since the Internet itself. And they're going to shake up just about every
business -- including yours."

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm?
chan=gl


Fortune: Why There's No Escaping the Blog

"...they've become a force business can't afford to ignore."

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1011763,00.html



The KM community's casual attitude towards blogging is disturbing. Blogs,
enterprise RSS, wikis and other social tools and technology are by far
greatest technological and social advancement in KM since the WWW in '94.
Blogs are profoundly disruptive. They are permanently altering the knowledge
economy and the business landscape. Some predict trillions in productivity
gains.

Even with broad, mainstream coverage, the blogging phenomena is being missed
badly by the people that so depend on it: enterprise knowledge managers and
business leaders. The consequences are great. It is hard to fathom. Is it
groupthink, hype fatigue or just lack of awareness?

It calls to mind this famous paper in Scientific American, October 2001
issue, "Drowning New Orleans," By Mark Fischetti

"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing
thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically
increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern
Louisiana can save the city."

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F00
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The only thing worse than ignoring blogging, is going about it wrong and
breathing the vendor exhaust. Fortunately, your sponsors of the distributed
action/research network have latched-on to the blogging revolution with a
vengeance. They are offering these crucial, highly-regarded community
conversations on blogs and other social tools for KM.

New England: http://www.kmcluster.com/bos/
New York: http://www.kmcluster.com/nyc/
Texas: http://www.kmcluster.com/dfw/


Cordially,

/s/ jheuristic

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