Posted by Riva Gianluca on June 27, 2002 at 10:00:46:

In Reply to: BRINT as a CoP: From Discussion to Implementation posted by BK Ghosh on June 24, 2002 at 17:14:17:

Hi BK,
I agree with Akhil that at least this forum should be kept for free, while you could charge a more professional service, kind of virtual or mixed virtual-real consultancy service. The strenght and competitive advantage of this forum is the free entry, imho a registration or a fee could kill the forum.
Moreover, I see two more problems inside KM Think Thank

1)AS Akhil said, The forum lack a real corporate/organizational memory, and this is quite ironic as its subject is KM. The archive is often too caothic, and it's impossible for an outsider to manage to get a comprehensive answer from hundreds of messages, often because they can't grasp the context of the messages and the social interaction. Even here, without f2f interaction, regular users get to know each other in a sense, and messages are fully comprehensible only by knowing this social interaction. I think a corporate memory should try to deliver the ideas of the regular users about the main subjcets (for istance technoogy, organizational structure, HRM and KM), maybe including them in the professional/consultancy service.

2)Zero flaming is not always positive. Brilliant observations and innovation (Innovation is something that the Founder of this site, Malhotra, has always been stressing) are often the result of dialogue, diatribe, even virtual quarrell and flaming. I think a little more tolerance of creative abrasion, as other members have already noted in the previous discussion about Brint as community, should help in developing more innovation and creative thinking, and I'm sure this would help to increase participation in this forum. Otherwise, we will take the risk to have a perfectly neat place, with zero innovation. For istance, I think that PRAC in the previous discussion didn't deserve some of the resonces he got for just expressing sincerely his thought...

Without any desrespct, just speaking about some problems that also other participants feel as crucial
Kind Regards

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• Continued Discussion on Corporate Memory - From Concept to Reality - How? BK Ghosh 22:29:03 06/30/02 (0)
• Re: Zero Flaming is not always good... BK Ghosh 12:54:52 06/27/02 (0)

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