Posted by Dave on November 14, 2001 at 16:03:06:

In Reply to: Re: Profiles and directories posted by Denham on November 13, 2001 at 23:20:45:

Thanks for the clarification Denham. Based upon your description of Intellectual Capital vs. Directories / Yellow Pages, my project is probably interested in both. The employee profile would include name, photo, job description, resume, areas of expertise, work experience with present company, personal interests and experiences, personal contacts, etc. Much of this is expected to be gathered through a personal interview. The goal of this knowledge is to encourage community, collaboration and knowledge sharing in a corporation that distributed over a geographic distance.
Now, having read your personal bio on the Smith Weaver Smith website, I can see that you are a knowledge elicitation expert with experience in a great variety of IC acquisition methods including repertory grids, semantic nets, conceptual graphs, teachback, protocol analysis, video analysis, workplace ethnography, interviews and surveys. Furthermore, as a result of your past experience in KM you have developed a taxonomy of knowledge related practices, tasks and activities. So, I think I'm talking to the right guy, when I ask:
1) What is a good KM resource (written and accessible) that would quickly give me a targeted background and overview of the intellectual context informing and motivating this employee knowledgebase. [I mean, somebody must have told the sponsor of this database that there was value in this endeavor. And whoever told him this must have been influenced by the knowledge and experience that leads you to make the statement: "real value comes from who you know or have known, what you are really interested in, and if you are prepared (or have the time to?) to share, teach and mentor others." ]
2) Do you still think that linked html pages is the best way to store the kind of data I listed above or do you think that a combination of database and html files is required. For example, do you think that data retrieval might be facilitated by storing some of this data in a relational database where it could be queried and quantified.
Again, thank you very much for your time, patience, and input. I haven't worked in KM for a couple of years and my use of the jargon may be confusing.
Sincerely,
Dave

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• Re: Profiles and directories Denham 08:53:19 11/15/01 (5)
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      • Re: Profiles and directories Dave 23:38:16 11/16/01 (2)
        • Re: Profiles and directories Denham 10:21:20 11/17/01 (1)
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