Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

• No meeting on Nov. 11 for Veterans Day; dinner instead anyone?
• Shimon, Josh, Garrett, Kris, and j talked about blogs on Saturday
• Dim sum or brunch outing on Sunday, Nov. 14?
• Test run of recording equipment for future meetings
  • Lisa loaned j a microphone. (Thanks, Lisa!)
  • Who’s bringing recording equipment?
  • The test didn’t work.
• Garrett, Christina, and j on blogs and knowledge management
  The Dowbrigade posted audio files:
  • Christina (11.2 M)
  • Jessica (7.8 M)
  • Garrett (9.3 M)
  • We’re using my laptop for the presentations, so I couldn’t really take live notes. The batteries in my PalmPilot died during Garrett’s talk.
  • Christina:
    • personal km vs. Km personal v. Multiple people
    • why blog?
    • Blogs mean different things to diffeerent people
    • someone’s voice vs. Corporate voice
    • information ecology
    • how people keep found things found is key–blogs are good for that
    • search, retrieval is important–metadata archiving
    • existing technology
    • blogging is about the person, not the technology
  • j talked about feeds and knowledge management
    • I couldn’t take notes about my own presentation while I was giving it. Maybe I’ll fill this in a little later
  • Garrett:
    • we’re always looking for new sources of knowledge
    • started in Blogger, moved to get feed & group support
    • it’s easy to blog
    • Garrett highly recommends that any blogger use an aggregator
    • the batteries in my PalmPilot died
    • Garrett’s talk is very similar to one he gave on Saturday. His PowerPoint slides from that talk
  • Because the panel will happen in twelve days, the slides are not publicly available yet. The intention is to make them available after the talk on Tuesday, November 16th.
• What else?