Insightful thoughts on weblogs and KM from Jim McGee

Jim McGee of McGee's Musings has had a run of great posts lately, mostly around the area of knowledge management and web logs. Rather than repeat everything he has to say, I'll point to some of the things I liked best of late:

Investing in knowledge sharing - starting on the weblog learning curve

Weblogs are only the latest in a long line of tools aimed at getting people to work together. Touches near a favorite point of mine: almost any tool will work for those some.

Knowledge work, weblogs, and fair process

Pointer to and comment on a Harvard Business Review article by Chan and Mauborgne with a very telling premise: "employees will commit to a manager's decision--even one they disagree with--if they believe that the process the manager used to make the decision was fair."

Thinking in public, part 2

A reader suggests that what we need is tools for "thinking together". McGee suggests that this is too big a step: thinking in public is hard, and thinking collaboratively is hard. "Thinking together" implies both, and that's too big a hill for most.

Thoughtful stuff. Along the lines of knowing who you're listening to, McGee's bios suggest that he's been at this a while. (His reference to The Network Nation was enough to convince me.)