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basral
Basral bookmarked on 2009-06-20 enterprise2.0 law-firms km social-media collaboration tagging

"little KM is about “how” and big KM is about “what.” Little KM helps people find the big KM"

  • The Small Stuff. By little KM, I mean meta data; but not the hierarchical, taxonomic stuff of older KM approaches.  It’s not about asking your lawyers to profile, or select prescribed meta data, for their documents when saving them in a document management system.  Rather, little KM is about on-the-fly, user-generated tagging, commenting, and rating.  Little KM is also about self interest; and that’s important.
  • Little KM is not substantive.  It points or directs people to the substantive stuff (the big KM).
  • Self Interest. Altruism may be alive and well, but for the most part, we do things to help ourselves, personally.  The good thing is that with little KM, the side effect is that it also helps others.  When someone tags, comments on, or rates a piece of content (presumably to help themselves find, or make sense of, it later) others get the benefit of that person’s efforts.

  • The solution to having too much information is, surprisingly, more information.


    For law firms, that means a better document management system. One that incorporates some of the great lessons we have learned in Web 2.0. Too much of the DMS is an undifferentiated mass of documents. Folders are no solution if the folder is not incorporated back into the retrieval and information about the document.

This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 01 Jun 2009, by Greg Lloyd.

  • 20 Jun 09
    basral
    Lars Bauer

    "little KM is about “how” and big KM is about “what.” Little KM helps people find the big KM"

    enterprise2.0 law-firms km social-media collaboration tagging

    • The Small Stuff. By little KM, I mean meta data; but not the hierarchical, taxonomic stuff of older KM approaches.  It’s not about asking your lawyers to profile, or select prescribed meta data, for their documents when saving them in a document management system.  Rather, little KM is about on-the-fly, user-generated tagging, commenting, and rating.  Little KM is also about self interest; and that’s important.
    • Little KM is not substantive.  It points or directs people to the substantive stuff (the big KM).
    • 2 more annotations...
  • 14 Jun 09
    shaund
    Harry Haller

    tags

  • 01 Jun 09
    seanabrady
    Sean Brady

    km knowledge management pkm

    • But, unless people see the personal value of using little KM, it won’t become all that it could.
      • Sean Brady

        Sean Brady on 2009-06-01

        This is the secret to KM..all nicely wrapped up in a sentence. This important for more than just Little KM, but for all KM.

  • grlloyd
    Greg Lloyd

    Back in September of 2008 I mentioned this idea of “little KM” in a post called “Micro-blogging in your law firm?.” There, I wrote: little KM is about “how” and big KM is about “what.” Little KM helps people find the big KM.

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    • Back in September of 2008 I mentioned this idea of “little KM” in a post called “Micro-blogging in your law firm?.” There, I wrote: little KM is about “how” and big KM is about “what.”  Little KM helps people find the big KM.