Today Neil Richards and I are delighted to launch Knowledgethoughts.com, an open source resource for the KM and legal KM communities. This is a personal, collaborative learning effort, and is not associated with any organisation.

Watching Web 2.0 from the sidelines is a lot like trying to learn how to ride a bike by reading the entry for “Bicycle” in WikiPedia. There are many things where learning is by doing, and from learning comes better ideas and understanding. Web 2.0 and KM is a lot like that and so KnowledgeThoughts is born to both learn about the tools, and to use them for personal knowledge management. We think that a real shift is going on, and the rate of change approaches the rate of change in the early days of the internet.

Our aim is not to have thousands of pages, but to be a valuable resource for the community of people interested in knowledge management, and particularly professional services firm knowledge management. Here you will find ideas, resources, thoughtstarters, marcomms ideas, and our thoughts on a range of topics. There is both a blog, and a wiki reference and our goal is to have something interesting to say in the blog each week.

You will see that we are leveraging other platforms incuding youtube, delicious, netvibes and slideshare.net. In some work environments you may need to get youtube and slideshare.net unblocked in order to take advantage of the knowledge on those platforms or view them from home (curiously the balance has now shifted for many knowledge workers where they have superior computing resources and functional lightweight tools at home than at work – perhaps an interesting blog topic…).

We are using Mediawiki (the open source wiki platform used by Wikipedia) as a content management tool, and have not enabled editing other than by the two of us. At this time KnowledgeThoughts is a personal knowledge building tool which we are delighted to share with those who may find the ideas and tools of value. But who knows what the future holds…. There is probably enough content now to be valuable, however it will grow over time.

We would be delighted to get your thoughts and feedback – and even questions or topics on which you might like us to explore.

We hope this enriches your knowledge.

Best regards

Matthew & Neil

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