Archive for December 9th, 2005

RSS and Knowledge Harvesting

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Knowledge harvesting, or the codification of tacit knowledge, is a key step in the management of any organization’s knowledge assets.  Whereas the human creation of static documents in the form of reports, briefings and supplemental training documents is often both time consuming and under prioritized, the new technology of RSS reduces the workload of those [...]

Innovative Launch Strategy

Friday, December 9th, 2005

A new site, started by Chris Nolan, Kweschuns & Answers, is beginning in stealth mode, much like Sphere and other startups that aren’t quite ready. 
While not really giving information out to the public, this landing page, that takes an email address, offers the company buzz, while not really divulging secrets.
It’s a great way to [...]

RSS and SSE

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Can you imagine the possibilities that Simple Sharing can do for RSS?
Microsoft has introduced a new specification that expands RSS from a
uni-directional communication channel to bi-directional model. The
bi-directional RSS has a new name: Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE).
It defines the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosly
cooperating applications to use RSS as the basis for item sharing.

Taking [...]

Nokia’s Got a Winning Strategy

Friday, December 9th, 2005

While business owners that start blogs tend to succeed, it seems when PR offices launch blogs they tend to fail.  That is, except when the PR firm is highly connected to the blogosphere themselves.
Case in point:
The Nokia Blog is really driving good buzz for the N90.  It’s a hot phone in its own right, but [...]

Yahoo! Answers

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Yahoo! Answers was just released.  It got me to thinking about using services like this to promote your content.  I do this already, but I am sure I have never covered this before.
Any site that allows you to have a profile is a site that will help you promote your content, in that your urls [...]

Employees Who Blog

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Internal employee blogs can be a fantastic catalyst within your company. Internal employee blogs help forge connections inside the company. External employee blogs are also great because they allow employees to connect with like-minded individuals outside the company.
It doesn’t matter whether you have a dozen employees or 2000, having your staff members connect creates fantastic [...]