More on KM and Blogs …

Jim McGee writes: “One reason that so many of us find weblogs exciting in the realm of knowledge management is that weblogs reveal that the most important knowledge needs to be created before it can be collected and organized.”(via Sebastian Fiedler)

I think I agree, if Jim is implying that blogs enable the full KM process cycle of creating, collecting and organizing information.

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