Thursday, January 27, 2005
New Interface
We are getting closer and closer towards a new user interface. I hope
we can launch it in two weeks time. Can't wait to see it live!!
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Unstructured information in Knowledge Management
Torsten has pointed me to a short entry on Jeff Nolan's blog:
"Actually, what I've been speculating is that blogs wikis search is a new knowledge environment for companies to use for collaboration, and one of the side effects will be to cast aside the formal hierarchical organization structures for more effect ad-hoc ones that companies typically operate on anyways."
Organizations try to structure information processes and knowledge management through hierarchies as well as classic knowledge and document management systems. But filing and archiving knowledge is obviously something that people do not like too much. I even have problems to file documents in a consistent and structured way on my own computer (that's why desktop search is such a success). Also a lot of information gets lost or deviated by classic ways of reporting
Open communication systems like an internal blogging service or as we call them a "corporate blogosphere" make unstructured information accessable, findable and archived. You get a lot more information on the surface and through collaboration features create new "unstructured" working groups. The way information processes and the emergence of sub communities in the blogosphere work is the best role model to show how organizations could benefit.
"Actually, what I've been speculating is that blogs wikis search is a new knowledge environment for companies to use for collaboration, and one of the side effects will be to cast aside the formal hierarchical organization structures for more effect ad-hoc ones that companies typically operate on anyways."
Organizations try to structure information processes and knowledge management through hierarchies as well as classic knowledge and document management systems. But filing and archiving knowledge is obviously something that people do not like too much. I even have problems to file documents in a consistent and structured way on my own computer (that's why desktop search is such a success). Also a lot of information gets lost or deviated by classic ways of reporting
Open communication systems like an internal blogging service or as we call them a "corporate blogosphere" make unstructured information accessable, findable and archived. You get a lot more information on the surface and through collaboration features create new "unstructured" working groups. The way information processes and the emergence of sub communities in the blogosphere work is the best role model to show how organizations could benefit.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Article in F.A.Z.
The F.A..Z. has published a long article about corporate blogging covering the whole spectrum of how companies can use blogs.
Thursday, January 6, 2005
The smaller one buys the bigger one?
When starting out 20six in Europe LiveJournal was very much our role
model. The press as well as the blogosphere hardly took notice of
LiveJournal. The services that was most written about was blogger in
the press and MT in the blogosphere. But nobody gained as many users as LiveJournal and especiallly
the activity rate of LJ users was (and still is) high above
average.
Take a look at LJs stats you can see that they have almost 100.000 paying customers which should give them yearly sales of around $ 2m. I do not believe that any blogservice including Six Apart comes close to that number.
Take a look at LJs stats you can see that they have almost 100.000 paying customers which should give them yearly sales of around $ 2m. I do not believe that any blogservice including Six Apart comes close to that number.
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Guy Kawasaki - The Art of the Start
Torsten has given me The Art of the Start written by Guy Kawasaki CEO of VC company garage.
It is fascinating to read and provides a lot of useful tips and I am
certainly going to adopt some of the techniques and exercises proposed.
I like it especially because it is written from inside a VC
company who sees dozens of entrepreneurs each week.
Guy has published a very funny Top Ten list of lies that entrerpeneurs use. It is true most of them are really lies. There are two remarks I have:
Guy has published a very funny Top Ten list of lies that entrerpeneurs use. It is true most of them are really lies. There are two remarks I have:
it is VC companies who are responsible
that some of these lies are told. Entrepreneurs pitching their company
are only trying to give information they were educated to give simply
because they are on the checklist of each VC. And my experience is that
if you are not providing this information you certainly be asked for it
a big advertising agency has a claim that goes "truth well told". I have seen a lot of lies well told and a lot of very experienced people believing them. Every Top Ten lie can be very impressive if presented by a talented liar.
Anyway, it is a great book and worth reading.a big advertising agency has a claim that goes "truth well told". I have seen a lot of lies well told and a lot of very experienced people believing them. Every Top Ten lie can be very impressive if presented by a talented liar.
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