Archive for the ‘LibraryThing’ Category
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
I've had some experience working with fielded wikis since I wrote disgruntledly about LibraryThing's implementation of them in October 2007. I knew at the time of their potential for being able to extract info for other purposes, but I had come into using wikis with a great appreciation for ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
When you want lots of people to contribute specific kinds of content, how can you encourage them?One can always try to influence the culture (storytelling, glory boards, begging). One can give individual incentives (rewards for best contributors, points systems). One can send out reminders ... or put reminders ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
What happens when an organization tries to foster a community, but there's disagreement between them (and/or within the community) over priorities, principles, and procedures of knowledge management?
Not that most of them are quick to identify them as knowledge management issues, but many of the recent organization-community conflicts I'm aware of ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and willingness to work with libraries, and above-average books reviews from LT members, and book-based discussions (easy to find and see updates on discussions of ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
legallypuzzled figured out the (nonstandard) MAGICNUMBER URL to do an ISBN search within my local (county) library system from LibraryThing entries, so I added my library to the LibraryThing book links. Say you're looking at the LT entry for Introduction to Knowledge Management: KM in Business. ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Now that a handheld trigger-scanner is coming my way, I've created a LibraryThing account for myself. So far, I've just manually added books I had at the office; the major imports will come when I get the scanner and a friend helps me whip through my bookcases at home. I'm ...
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