Author: fioritto

Justifying knowledge management ROI in…

Justifying knowledge management ROI in law firms. Kingsley Martin writes a comprehensive article on measuring the return on KM, in the context of law firms. He works through a range of calculation methods, and discusses both hard and soft benefits. For example: The benefits of KM can… [Column Two]

Blogging in the classroom, Part…

Blogging in the classroom, Part 4. Plugging into the conversations. While weblogs might be a personal publishing phenomenon, k-logs exist within a network of ongoing conversations. Elsewhere, I’ve argued that one of the the values of k-logs is to help make the craft of knowledge work more visible.   Entering the world of blogging and k-logging can be an overwhelming…

Have you seen Fetchserver.com [1].

Have you seen Fetchserver.com. Fetch delivers on the enterprise streaming side of klogging.  Server pulls SQL data from sources, on schedule, outputs RSS feeds.  Clients grab feeds, scroll news in a task bar UI. Note the variable query frequency: pulled more often for rapidly changing data, presented more prominently for more important data. Why isn’t this database bridge part of Radio or…

Kingsley Martin: Calculating KM ROI…

Kingsley Martin: Calculating KM ROI in Law Firms. Kingsley Martin, formerly CIO at Kirkland & Ellis, is a sharp guy when it comes to KM. He’s a lawyer (with law degrees from both Oxford and Harvard) who has been focused on KM-related issues for over 15 years. He was one of my co-panelists at last week’s Executive Director Forum, and I…

The extremely talented technology team…

The extremely talented technology team at De Anza College has put together a wonderful support site for their faculty.  Lots of great how-to’s and training material for using Manila to create interactive faculty websites.  Bravo!  This is not only a template for how to effectively roll out weblogs to faculty members and students, it is also a template for doing this on corporate Intranets.…

Very cool. The beta of…

Very cool.  The beta of the rssExplorer tool for Radio is out.  What is great about this is the ability to leverage the subscriptions maintained by a diverse group of people.  This is interesting for many reasons.  First, it allows you to quickly subscribe to lots of new sources.  Second, it helps you find sources of news filtered (qualified) by people that have been reading news…