With the many channels of personal knowledge management tools in existence, we have come to realize that most of these tools will not only enhance our personal growth but also our innovative capabilities. Such tools, if used effectively, will help us in various aspects of our lives, including school and work lives. We would be exploring some examples below.
One concrete example will be the Google Reader. It will automatically alert and feed us with updates on all the websites that we have subscribed to. With Google Reader, the hassle of having to visit multiple websites that we have an interest in is eliminated as all the updates can be viewed on a single platform. As such, knowledge sharing via such a channel will allow us to gain more knowledge from various fields efficiently and effectively. In doing so, it will also enable us to gather new ideas and perspectives from others and generate new ideas of our own.
Within the context of a project team the use of wikis can help in enhancing our personal innovative capabilities. By setting up a personal wiki for our project members, anyone on the team can access it to share, contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. A key benefit of a wiki is that it is free-of-charge and user-friendly. Furthermore, it can eliminate problems such as having to sieve through tonnes of emails just to locate a particular piece of information and having multiple copies of work being edited simultaneously. Such problems have on many occasions led to confusion amongst team members and delays in project schedules.
Another tool would be Video Sharing channels such as YouTube. Other than allowing us to watch our favourite MTVs, YouTube is also a channel in which a lot of other information can be shared. For instance, if we need to produce a video to explain Web 2.0 tools, many videos are already available on YouTube to explain these concepts. By viewing a few of these videos, we can draw ideas from what others have already done and make use of what we feel is the most effective way to bring across the message to come up with a new idea for our own video.
As seen in the above examples, it is evident that knowledge sharing and creation can certainly enhance our personal innovative capabilities, be it in school or at the workplace.
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Hey, nice tools there. Was wondering whether the google reader is similar to RSS? Anyways, do consider my suggestion to add some pics to the blog :)
Hi Ernest,
Just to clarify, RSS is different from Google reader. RSS is more like a technology that enables you to keep track of all the updates of the websites which you have subscribed to. With RSS, you can “subscribe” to a website or blog, and get “fed” all the new headlines from all of these subscribed websites, and see what’s going on in minutes instead of hours.
While Google reader is a form of web-based aggregator capable of reading RSS feed online and offline. Google reader allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds as easily as typing them into your browser's address bar, and lets you read them like you're browsing through an e-mail. Yyou can manage the feeds, label them, and even share your feed collection with others by using Google reader.
For more information, do visit the following websites. =)
http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss/
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9745368-2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
you know, just my humble 2 cents. i was just thinking, we have all the advance technology to help us with innovations - that i cant disagree. but perhaps, one other (old school / traditional) way is to have some good ol' discussion over lunch, coffee breaks, dinners, networking seminars etc. we certainly can't rule that out as part of the innovation process too :)
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Hey hey,
I agree with you about Youtube as a great source to share knowledge, especially you can find lectures or workshops on different topics such as KM101 or even how to do makeup =).
One thing i would like to share from my personal experience with wikis is that contents in wiki are published to everyone in department as compared to emails where only selected parties are addressed, and this makes it an excellent tool for sharing. However, the major disadvantage is that wiki has little or no structure to organize the pages. This means that anyone can add as many pages as they like but they might have difficulties finding or classifying them. User has to create the navigation page on his own which could be a challenge for people who are not proficient in wiki markup language.
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Hi Mabel,
I can understand your sentiments given that I am no tech freak nor am technologically abled to churn out fantastic wiki pages or videos. I am relatively new to this web 2.0 tools as well.
Nonetheless, the only defense I have for these tools or web 2.0 in particular is the fact that they are easy to pick up and use. Anyone is able to quickly learn how to use the basic functions of the tools in order to tap the benefits of such tools.
The point that you had brought up occurs in most of the other technologies that we embraced. We can easily pick up the basics but there is the need to put in effort if we want to learn the intricacies of these technologies. For most people, the basics may be sufficient, but for others, such as corporations who are seeking to use wikis, professionalism is important in delivery of information. Hence delving beyond the basics become crucial to the success of the use of wikis.
One takeaway is that the nature of gathering knowledge is such that it takes constant effort and time to capture and then share knowledge with others to maintain a knowledge based community.
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