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Why blog – 21 good reasons, 1 bad … Lilia Efimova from her PhD thesis on the subject
Fig.1. Dr. Lilia Efimova
‘As with writing, blogging is not simply formulating in words an idea already developed in one’s mind. It is also about connecting, developing and redefining half-baked ideas. When writing, I often go through the weblog archives to explore connections with what is already there. Reading and rereading what I wrote before shapes and changes what I’m about to write: I often find something unexpected or see patterns only in retrospect’. Efimova (2009. p 70)
- Somewhere to “park” emerging insights until the moment they are needed. Efimova (2009. p 75)
- Doesn’t require much effort
- Somewhere to park ideas
- Reading and engaging with others to become aware of issues and themes
- Topics accumulate and connections grew and things become clearer.
- A set of sense-making practices
- “Everyday grounded theory” Efimova (2009. p. 75)
- Connecting multiple fragments
- Getting into the writing flow
- Strengthened by readers’ feedback
- A channel for distribution
- Publication additional motivation to document emergent ideas
- A legitimate place to share thinking in progress
- -ve when the need is to be extremely selective and focused. Efimova (2009. p. 80)
- To collect in one place the fragmented bits relevant to my thinking Efimova (2009. 3.5.4)
- Clusters of conversations
- Conversations unfolding
- A personal space and a community space simultaneously.
- A personal narrative used to articulate and to organise one’s own thinking. (conversation with self. p 90?) around 4.3
- An example of hypertext conversation. Efimova (2009. p. 129)
- Weblogs provide a space that helps both to develop one’s own point of view and discuss it with others.
- Bloggers present their ideas to the world, readers learn from them. Efimova (2009. p. getting things done. staying in touch)
REFERENCE
Efimova, L. (2009) Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. Novay PhD Research Series 2009 (www.novay.nl.dissertations)
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Blogging for knowledge management in the workplace
‘As with writing, blogging is not simply formulating in words an idea already developed in one’s mind. It is also about connecting, developing and redefining half-baked ideas. When writing, I often go through the weblog archives to explore connections with what is already there. Reading and rereading what I wrote before shapes and changes what I’m about to write: I often find something unexpected or see patterns only in retrospect’.Efimova (2009. p 70)
Fig. 1. Dr Lilia Efimova – her Phd thesis is on blogging to support knowledge management in the workplace.
- Somewhere to “park” emerging insights until the moment they are needed. Efimova (2009. p 75)
- Doesn’t require much effort
- Somewhere to park ideas
- Reading and engaging with others to become aware of issues and themes
- Topics accumulate and connections grew and things become clearer.
- A set of sense-making practices
- “Everyday grounded theory” Efimova (2009. p. 75)
- Connecting multiple fragments
- Getting into the writing flow
- Strengthened by readers’ feedback
- A channel for distribution
- Publication additional motivation to document emergent ideas
- A legitimate place to share thinking in progress
- -ve when the need is to be extremely selective and focused. Efimova (2009. p. 80)
- To collect in one place the fragmented bits relevant to my thinking Efimova (2009. 3.5.4)
- Clusters of conversations
- Conversations unfolding
- A personal space and a community space simultaneously.
- A personal narrative used to articulate and to organise one’s own thinking. (conversation with self. p 90?) around 4.3
- An example of hypertext conversation. Efimova (2009. p. 129)
- Weblogs provide a space that helps both to develop one’s own point of view and discuss it with others.
- Bloggers present their ideas to the world, readers learn from them. Efimova (2009. p. getting things done. staying in touch)
- low-threshold creation of entries
- a flexible and personally meaningful way to organise and maintain them
- opportunities to retrieve, reuse and analyse blog content
- opportunities to engage with others.
- fitted in while working on something else
- providing a way to keep abreast of others ideas
- capturing ones’ own emergent insights
- clarifying matters for a public
- over time ideas on a topic accumulate and connections between them become clearer.
- feedback from readers turns blogging into a sense-making practice
- eventually an ideas is ‘ripe’ and ready to become part of a specific task.
Efimova (2008. p. 208)
Autoenthnography Or, how to write something of substance.
From Richardson (2000) via Lilia Efimova (2009. p. 39)
I’ve taken the view, with a lifetime of keeping a diary and 14 years blogging that I write whatever comes to mind as I put pen to paper or fingertips to the keyboard. There is a better way:
Substantive Contribution
Does this piece contribute to our understand of social life? Does the writer demonstrate a deeply grounded (if embedded) human world understanding and perspective?
Aesthetic Merit
Does this piece succeed aesthetically? Does the use of creative analytical practices open up the text, invite interpretive responses? Is the text artistically shaped, satisfying, complex, and not boring?
Reflexivity
How did the author come to write this? How was the information gathered? Ethical issues? How has the author’s subjectivity been both a producer and a product of this text?
Is there an adequate self-awareness and self-exposure for the reader to make judgements about the point of view? Do authors hold themselves accountable to the stands of knowing and telling of the people they have studied?
Impact
Does this affect me? Emotionally? Intellectually? Generate new questions? Move me to write? Move me to try new research practices? Move me to actions?
Lived Experience
Does this text embody a fleshed out sense of lived-experience? Does it seem “true” – a credible account of a cultural, social, or communal sense of the “real”?
REFERENCE
Efimova.L (2009) Passion At Work : Blogging practices of knowledge workers. Novay PhD Research Series, No. 24 (Novay/PRS/024)
Richardson, L. (2000). Evaluating ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 6 (2), 253-255
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Reading – nothing quite beats it, does it?
Fig. 1. This week’s reading – almost. I’ve got the stack by the bed too, which includes ‘The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan (half way through) and ‘The Shallows’ Nicholas Carr – which I read wearing boxing gloves to resist removing the pages.
Here we see:
Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. The 2009 doctoral thesis of Lilia Efimova – who, naturally, has a wonderful blog.
Spaced education improves the retention of clinical knowledge by medical students: a randomised controlled trial. (2009) B Price Kerfoot, William deWolf, Barbara Masser, Paul Church and Daniel Federman – try QStream to get a flavour of this, then read a dozen papers from Dr Kerfoot.
The Music of Business (2013) – Peter Cook. Business with rock playing. He’s an Open University Business School MBA Alumnus, former Tutor on ‘Creativity, Innovation and Change’ a module I did early in 2012. Should be fun.
In Search of Memory : the emergence of a New Science of Mind (2006) Eric Kandel. I may not be about to study neuroscience of psychology but this may help get my head in the right intellectual space.
Delete : The virtue of forgetting in the digital age (2009) Viktor Mayer-Schonberger. Of the Oxford Internet Institute. On my second read as my interest is in memory and what I consider to be an infinite capacity to learn and gain more knowledge. I know it’s just a film but I do rather think that if we could live forever our minds wouldn’t let us down (Groundhog Day).
Using Computer-based Text Analysis to Integrate Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research on Collaborative Learning. (2010) Wegerif and Mercer. As part of the module H809. Already read, reviewed, dissected and taken notes.
A map to get to the University of Southampton Highfield campus from Southampton Central Station.
Your Research PhD (2005) Nicholas Walliman – I’m sure I’ve read more of this than the Kindle suggests, though it must just be very long.
Authoring a PhD: how to plan draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation. (2003) Patrick Dunleavy. I’m following the instructions to the letter. From these two books I’ve drawn up a ‘plan’ on a sheet of A1 paper. I need a bigger sheet, so I’ll double these up or use wallpaper backing paper to plot the detail. I’ve got my head around RefWorks and have a healthy collection of papers to read, usually picking of a couple each day.
H809 Practice-based Research in Educational Technology. Only week 2. This is making me approach anything I read with enormous care. Courtesy of Google it doesn’t take long to track down the authors – I like to know what they have written since simply to get a perspective on where their career has gone or is going. Not the guide that is recommended to judge a paper but when faced with a list of potential papers on the same topic I hope I pick out the authority based on institution and their CV.
Just read:
Evidence for Delayed Parafoveal-on-Foveal Effects From Word n2 in Reading (2012) Sarah Risse and Reinhold Kliegl – A remarkable read, even if it takes a microscope to a piece of text and how we read. Fascinating.
While still reading:
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) Marshall McLuhan
The Timeless Way of Building (1972) Christopher Alexander
and about to attack
The Shallows (2009) Nicholas Carr
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Personal Knowledge Management and the hangout where we should all hangout.
Fig. 1. Jay Cross leading the Personal Knowledge Management – Google Hangout 8 Feb 2013
in YouTube too.
If these guys met to have lunch this is how the conversation would go – it is conversational, introductions are made, people drift in, it is slow to get going, then someone leaves and from time to time it drifts. And there are technical hitches from time to time. This is the beauty of it though, this is not a commercial webinar and it is all the better for it – you feel as if you are part of the inner sanctum.
And what do you learn?
That Google Hangouts work and will kill off Skype.
Elluminate for those who suffer this platform still should have been killed over a long time ago.
Experiencing YouTube transcription is hilarious as the words produced rarely get close. It is oddly compelling though and grabs your attention as you try to figure out how on earth the technology can get it so wrong. Perhaps like the rest of us it required a couple of decades to master the mysteries of the English language.
A narrative transcript doesn’t work. What works far better, and what I attempt here, are notes on what each of the major speakers said. This way you get a sense of their stance and can, I suppose, if needs be, reference them correctly at a later date.
I can’t sit still for one hour; it’s just impossible. 0.29:00 (I know the feeling. I stand at my desk anyway – really. I believe its better for me and rather energizing too).
Virgil ‘They are able because they think they are able’. It is the motivation as well as the preparation.
Learning Performance Institute Jane Heart, service to LD
The joy of the collective mindmap
Fig .2. Personal Knowledge Management — PKM – Harold Jarche.
- There’s only one container for knowledge – people.
- Learning is conversation.
- A blog makes you a more effective knowledge worker.
- We’re working with the zealots, the early adopters. O.20:56
- Chance favours the connected mind. Stephen Johnson.
- To sell is human. You can’t distil the complex down into the 1 minute, or the 1% until you really understand it.
- Harold Jarche. Talks about getting the late adopters ‘across the chasm’ of innovations.
What is personal knowledge management 44:37
As a consultant stay ahead of the game …
Denham Grey – Knowledge management expert
Lilia Efimova – working on doctoral thesis on how knowledge experts shared
through blogs
Passion at work
Making sense of our world
Link to articles
Look at last 3 – 5
Seek – sense – share
Thinks have to be alliterative
How do we get this across the chasm (Diffusion of Innovations theory)
Have the content in as small a component as possible in order to share.
Fig. 3. Stephen Judd
Manager, Information Technology and Distance Education at UNH Cooperative Extension
- If you know the question you can find the answer.
- I can’t convert people, this isn’t a religion.
- Quest for the teachable moment.
- You can have a shared notes function.
- Collaborative blog posting. 32:00
- Seems to lower the barrier a bit … overcomes the fear of writing
- Just type out a sentence and another can help you find what you meant.
- How drive performs to share text and doodles …
How is complex knowledge shared?
You have to have strong social ties. Get to know people. Speak the same language. Harold Jarche.
Tacit knowledge. Dave Ferguson.
The only way we can share tacit knowledge is through conversation. Harold Jarche.
Experts in a gazillion fields, how do they stay up to date?
- 18 in services for workshops
- We’ll tell you what you need to know
- Network literacies – feeling comfortable, building your own learning network, learning more and gaining knowledge, helping people learn for themselves.
Easy to speak to the choir … how do you speak to the people on the fringes.
What about the things that don’t come from the bottom up? 52:30
- Collaboration
- Validating information
- Curating information
- Making business together
We don’t need finished reports, what about the bits and pieces that got you there.
- Got to have stuff to share.
- Create knowledge artefacts
If my notes are somewhat cryptic then go and listen to the Hangout yourselves – then imagine sitting in the corner of a room at a dinner party and taking notes.
From this I have got in touch with Dr. Lilia Efimova.
I am reading her thesis on blogging.
Passion at work: Blogging practices of knowledge workers (2009)
Doctoral thesis by Lilia Efimova
I’m on a quest to find a topic for doctoral research myself and have blogging under consideration – I’ve kept a diary since 1975 and a blog since 1999 and have had odd occasions of lifelogging and experimental hoarding too … for a single calendar month. As an exercise. Trying to understand what to take and what to ditch, what to store and what to ditch and whether or if a diary, blog or photo means we can declutter and have access to stuff in a more intelligent way.
My textbooks from school?
My files of essay notes on European and British History?
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Automatically captured autobiographical metadata
Automatically captured autobiographical metadata : Mischa Tuffield (2006)
Faculty of Engineering, science and mathematics. School of Electronics and Computer Science. Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group.
Supervisors: Nigel Shadbolt, David Millard.
Those who know me well will understand why this subject fascinates me – a diarist since I was 13, blogging since 1999 and recently completed a Master’s Degree in Open and Distance Education with the Open University. Over a decade ago I registered domain names like ‘The Contents of My Mind’ and ‘TCMB’ but didn’t know how to take my enthusiasm and turn it into a research project or product.
Know I do … or nearly do.
There’s a reason to this day why I blog as ‘My Mind Bursts’.
Current reading is on the combined themes of memory support, lifelogging, augmented learning and virtual companions – there’s considerable overlap into supporting those with diminishing senses or memory with illness or old age, as well as enhancing the learning and information retrieval and manipulation process.
An infrastructure for capturing and exploitation of personal metadata to drive research into context aware systems.
- Capture of personal experiences
- Context aware systems
- Multimedia annotation systems
- Narrative generation
- Semantic Web enabling technologies
- A contextual log of a user’s digital life.
- To facilitate auto–biographical narrative generation.
Towards a methodology for the capture and storage of personal metadata and is proposed as a framework for multimedia asset management.
PROBLEM
Information overload, or infosmog (Shadbolt and O’Hara, 2003)
A liberation of personal information.
- Ease of publishing. (House and Davis, 2005)
- Towards a web–accessibke Knowledge Base (KB)
- Photocopain.
- Adhereance to as many W3C recommendations as possible.
- Semantic Web (Berners–Lee et al, 2001)
Scientific American article to assemble and integrate personal information into web accessible resources (Shadbolt et al., 2006)
Exposing information in a structured snd standard form … using Resource Description Framework (RDF) Manola and Miller, 2004)
Universal Resource Identifier (URI)
Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
Memories for Life (M4L)
Semantic Squirrels Group (SSSIG)
Image classification, content–based indexing and retrieval,
Content and context based services
- Marc Davis (2004a)
- Spatial
- Temporal
- Social
Design methods to generate narratives from bespoken knowledge bases
- Alani et al., 2003
- Geurts et al., 2003
- Mulholland et al., 2004
so automatically, not hand– crafted metadata.
The Semantic Logger (Tuffield et al., 2006a)
Photo annotation
Recommender system (Tuffield et al., 2006a) and (Loizou and Dasmahaptra, 2006)
Posting of data to the knowledge database.
By virtue of knowledge integration alone, added value emerges. (Tuffield, 2006. p. 20)
Community of practice identification (Alani et al., 2003a)
Simile Project at MIT
(As a diarist since I was 13 I came to seek a way to say enough to recall the day. I needed the trigger, not the detail. The boring stuff might not work as such a trigger).
Clustering algorithms
FURTHER LINKS TO EXPLORE
The Semantic Logger Downloads Page
Work undertaken my Marc Davis at Berkeley provides insight into how context can be combined with content to aid the identification of faces inside photographs (Davis et al., 2006).
FURTHER RESEARCH
I am proposing the design of a human centric personal image search and browsing task, similar to that undertaken by Mor Naaman (Naaman et al., 2004). This is presented as a manner of evaluating the utility of the various asset management. The results of this experiment is intended as a contribution to the identification of useful automatically captured metadata to aid memory recall.
REFERENCES
T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 284(5), May 2001.
Marc Davis, Michael Smith, Fred Stentiford, Adetokunbo Bambidele, John Canny, Nathan Good, Simon King, and Rajkumar Janakiraman. Using context and similarity for face and location identification. In Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE 18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Internet Imaging VII. IS&T/SPIE Press, 2006.
J. Gemmel, G. Bell, R. Lueder, S. Drucker, and C. Wong. MyLifeBits: fulfilling the memex vision. In MULTIMEDIA ’02: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international conference in Multimedia, pages 235–238, 2002.
J. Gemmell, A. Aris, and R. Lueder. Telling stories with MyLifeBits. ICME 2005, 8: 6–9, July 2005.
Carsten Rother, Sanjiv Kumar, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Andrew Blake. Digital tapestry. In CVPR ’05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’05) – Volume 1, pages 589–596, Washington, DC, USA, 2005. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-7695-2372-2.
L. Sauermann, A. Bernandi, and A. Dengel. Overview and outlook on the semantic desktop. In Proc. of Semantic Desktop Workshop at the ISWC, 2005.
N. Shadbolt and K. O’Hara. AKTuality: An overview of the aims, ambitions and assumptions of the advanced knowledge technologies interdisciplinary research collaboration. AKT Selected Papers 03, pages 1–11, 2003.
Nigel R. Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, and Tim Berners-Lee. The Semantic Web: Revisted. IEE-Intelligent System, 21(3):96–101, May 2006.
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Faced with information overload what do you do? Read everything, read nothing or get organised?
Fig. 1. George Siemens on how he manages information on the internet
From the University of Athabasca blog ‘The Landing’.
I’d express it differently. I’d visualise concentric circles, a whirlpool or spiral. Perhaps a Catherine-Wheel? I have kept a diary since 1975 and a blog since 1999. These serve multiple purposes – by default I am the family archivist. My own interest is in the ‘Digital Brain’ – how to enhance memory recall, idea creation, problem solving and knowledge sharing. I think each person needs to find their own behaviour. Just as my desk is tidy, with things in drawers, a shelf or in the bin, my wife’s study is (from my perspective) akin to the bin – nothing ever comes out that goes in. We dare not mess with each other’s spaces.
I blog the lot. I use the blogs as e-portfolios – tagged and titled the stuff is there. As soon as possible I blogify this content into a thought, or flesh out and credit any notes. I aim to avoid copyright by holding such content locked, citing stuff I do use and writing a good deal of fresh content myself.
I never believed in the chronology of the blog. Even in 2001 my blog was sorted by theme, not year or month or day. Once I got to 500 entries I added an ‘Enter@Random’ button and expected each entry, even if written daily, to stand alone. I’d learn from keeping a diary what a bore those can be unless you can find the juicy bits i.e. titles, tags and themes.
I’m currently on a journey of reflection through 33 months of studying with the Open University – some 2000 blog posts maintained as an e-portfolio, student’s diary, activity-collator, assignment preparation, shared reflection, community-chat, journal, student socialising mind-dump.
A self-constructed resource that like the Livingstone Daisy opens its petals when I shine a light on it – I thought I could pick through key educators, authors and influencers from this in an hour or so, I find it is taking days. Then again, picking through 500,000 – 1 million words (wild estimate based on my blogging habits of the last decade).
I rarely look at my diaries and never reread for at least 15 years. The process of uploading to a blog sounds like a retirement activity – but I’ll never retire. A tin box and bury them in the garden then?
Diffusion of innovations
Uncertainty is the degree to which a number of alternatives are perceived with respect to the occurrence of an event and the relative probabilities of these alternatives.
One kind of uncertainty is generated by an innovation defined as an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or another unit of adoption.
An innovation presents an individual or an organisation with a new alternative or alternatives as well as new means of solving problems.
However, the probability that the new idea is superior to previous practice is not initially known with certainty by individual problem solvers.
Thus, individuals are motivated to seek further information about the innovation in order to cope with the uncertainty that it creates.
Information about an innovation is often sought from peers, especially about their subjective evaluations of the innovation. This information exchange about a new idea occurs through a convergence process involving interpersonal networks. The diffusion of innovations is essentially a social process in which subjectively perceived information about a new idea is communicated from person to person. The meaning of an innovation is thus gradually worked out through a process of social construction.
PREFACE
REFERENCE
Rogers E E Diffusion of Innovations (2005)
A gem from Rogers’ offered here as a point of discussion
The diffusion of innovations according to Rogers (1962). With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Getting a new idea adopted, even when it has obvious advantages, is difficult. Many innovations require a lengthy period of many years from the time when they are widely adopted. Therefore, a common problem for many individuals and organisations is how to speed up the rate of diffusion of an innovation.’
FAILURE
‘The rate of adoption of the innovation did not reach a critical mass, after which the diffusion process would have become self-sustaining.’
P5
DIFFUSION
The process in which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. It is a special type of communication, in that the messages are concerned with new ideas. Communication is a process in which participants create and share information with one another in order to reach a mutual understanding.
Diffusion is a special type of communication in which the messages are about a new idea. This newness of the idea in the message content gives diffusion its special character. The newness means that some degree of uncertainty is involved in diffusion.
UNCERTAINTY
Uncertainty is the degree to which a number of alternatives are perceived with respect to the occurrence of an event and the relative probability of these alternatives. Uncertainty implies a lack of predictability, of structure, of information. Information is a means of reducing uncertainty
INFORMATION
Information is a difference in matter-energy that affects uncertainty in a situation where a choice exists among a set of alternatives (Rogers & Kincaid, 1981). A technological innovation embodies information and thus reduces uncertainty about cause-effect relationships in problem solving.
INNOVATION
An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption. P12
The perceived newness of the idea for the individual determines his or her reaction to it. If an idea seems new to an individual, it is an innovation.
NEWNESS
Newness of an innovation may be expressed in terms of knowledge, persuasion, or a decision to adopt.
DANGER
Of being ‘innovation-orientated’ rather than ‘client-orientated.’
REFERENCE
Rogers, E, E. , (Diffusion of Innovations. 2005)
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