tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87538602011-10-06T17:00:16.998-03:00Hey co-workers, friends, family and newcomers, Welcome to Collablogging. If you are wondering what this name is about, let me give you a hint: "collaborating by blogging". Well, I hope you are not too disappointed 'cause there is nothing else behind it... Anyway, I wish you a nice collabloggation!Renata S. S. Guizzardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446266808617208396noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753860.post-89411969078210330012011-10-06T17:00:00.000-03:002011-10-06T17:00:17.024-03:00

It has been a long, long time since I wrote my last message here. But the good things about blogging is that we do not have any commitment regarding periodicy and/or content. At least, I do not... And in these past times, although I did not contribute here, I did receive some comments of eventual readers who found usefulness in the pages I had already left. This, among other things, made me

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Dear Collabloggers,After a long and dreadfull silence, many of you might be wondering if I gave up for good the idea of collablogging. But please don't ever consider that possibility again, as collabloggation (here and in other contexts) is a very important trait of my personality. The fact is that I was trying to cope with the cold and dark dutch winter, that really makes me quite depressed,

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Dear all, This is a quick note only to tell you all, collabloggers, that I wish you a very, very nice beginning in 2005!!!!!!!!! I don't really know what to expect for the next year. I know it's going to be a year of change, for me for sure and, I think also for the world. Really don't know where this planet is going... I am very much sad about the latest happenings in Asia, with this big

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I’ve read today a nice blog post entitled “The Barrier of Disbelief”, which I definitely recommend. It reminds us that we should not disregard any idea before we give ourselves some time to analyse it and find justifications to accept it or not. In fact, we (Knowledge Managers) should be worried about avoiding unjustified disbelief. Otherwise, we run the risk of dismissing some opportunities and

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Dear all, Reading the IEEE Spectrum report entitled “The view from the top” allows a quick assessment of how much a breakthrough is the Internet. This report presents the result of a survey made with 40 technology experts (among business top executive, academic institution’s managers and researchers, and others) regarding technological advances of the past, present and future. When questioned

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Hey all! I missed collablogging! I was in the University of Geneva for the past 5 days so I could not write... I loved the city and I had the best time there with my PhD supervisor (Dimitri), his wife (Murielle) and my friend Kate! I mainly went there to talk to Dimitri and to do a seminar, but what I really enjoy (I must confess) was wandering around the beautiful streets of the city (all

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Although I said that the previous post would be my last argument about integration… well, I couldn’t resist! : )) In fact, I think it is still missing a link from all this discussion and the main focused topic in this blog: Knowledge Management. Is integration important for KM? No doubt about that!!! In this sense, we can think of: knowledge integration, as in different pieces of knowledge

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Dear friends, After reasoning about some conditions that make integration desirable, we should now target the question of ‘how’ this process should be conducted. Integration processes between two or more parties should be carried out in a way that it results on maximizing the positive features of all involved parties, while minimizing their flaws. Taking again the example of companies A and B

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Dear Collabloggers, I guess we can move on a little bit on this discussion, focusing on something new for a change. I hope the Netherlands (including all its inhabitants) will find a way to deal better with the integration of the different co-existing cultures living here. As Olaf has put it, this might be a transition period, and despite all divergent opinions, I think we all agree that the

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Dear all, I've just read the new comment by Olaf, giving us with some information on why he so strongly disagreed with the anonymous post. Well, I am speechless... Really, Olaf's explanation has made me rethink about some of my preconceived ideas about this country. It's funny how we can sometimes be caught making mistakes such as stereotyping or generalizing too much. I wonder if this is

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Dear collabloggers, Thanks for your contributions, by posting comments on my previous message. I am really happy that we are discussing this very polemic theme here in Collablogging! For being so controversial, we need to be careful about respecting each other's opinions, at the same time that we must also keep it a civil discussion. That's why I decided to follow Olaf's suggestion of not

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Hey collabloggers, I know I haven't been so disciplined to write everyday... it's mostly due lack of time (work consumes a lot!). But I've been indeed having lots and lots in mind these days to share with you and I'd like to start by dedicating a whole week for talks about a theme that has been very much in the news, both in and out of organizations, having much more impact in our lives than we

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Hey everyone, I am here in my friend's house in Amsterdam: Mariana and Anthon and we've had some great chats about how KM is done in practice in Anthon's job in TPG Post, in the Netherlands. It is amazing how much I could learn from a talk to someone that is experiencing KM in a real life situation. So, this is just a reminder for myself (in the future) and for every KM researcher reading this

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Previously to my PhD, I used to work with Collaborative Learning, emphasizing the constructive nature of knowledge and aiming at supporting learners on broadening their mental models while interacting. It wasn't something very far from these ideas that lead to my becoming interest in the KM field. If you think about it, KM is basically aimed at making people learn while doing their work, in an

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The answer for this post’s question is ‘yes’. However, here I am NOT talking about religious faith but other types of faith. I will explain: 1. Faith on yourself In order to share the knowledge you possess in a proactive fashion (or even as a response to one’s request), you must trust that what you have to say or do is important, valid, and right. In other words, motivation for knowledge sharing

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Hey friends, I guess you wouldn't believe me if I told you that I missed writing in this blog only because I couldn't post on it in the last three days... I am really getting adicted to this stuff!!! : ))) I am now in Trento, Italy, working with my research colleagues at IRST/SRA. They are really great! I missed so much seeing these friendly faces, more than I even realized until I met everyone

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Here is a paragraph written by Lilia Efimova: "However, much of knowledge management research and practice is focused at the organisational level, aiming to develop an environment where knowledge is created, shared and used, as well as implementing specific interventions that support these processes. In many companies, because "no one seems to own the problem of knowledge-worker performance" (

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There is a tree in front of my living room window and you wouldn't belive its colour! It is this bright, vivid red... just amazing! Well, only seeing it in a beautiful day like today (leaves moving with the wind against the blue sky) makes me happy!!! I know this seems to be only sentimental bla, but in fact this has everything to do with Knowledge Management. How? Well, if we want to take most

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Today, I am much more motivated to write! Perhaps because I've just had a very interesting conversation with my brother about blogs, collaboration and knowledge sharing. In fact, he also has his own blog, which I recommend: Engenho - Cafe moido a brasileira. He is a great software engineer! So, for those interested in Java programming, it's definetely worth taking a look at it. Only one thing:

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Today I don't have much inspiration to write... I guess I am just too tired! I had too much work to do! So, I decided to do something that won't require too much of my brain now. : ) Here is a project in which I am involved and find very, very interesting: SCALE - Supporting Community Awareness, Learning, and Evolvement SCALE is about supporting Communities of

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Hey, forgot to mention... If someone is interested to read the paper commented in my last post, please find it in http://www.cs.toronto.edu/pub/eric/STRAW01-R2A.pdf It's worth checking it out. Have fun!

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Today I'd like to comment this brilliant paper from Liu & Yu. I couldn't stop reading it and I think it is just a must for whoever is interested in Software Engineering and/or KM (business process) methodological support, like myself. Just check how well their use of goals is justified in the following paragraph: "In general, goals describe the objectives that the system should achieve through

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I am not sure how many of you agree with me but the idea about posting the summaries is not really so great after all, is it? I think last post is just too big to motivate anyone to actually read it. So, here is what I decided: from now on, I will just include my own thoughts about the publication (something like the section IDEAS THAT OCCURRED TO ME WHILE READING) and if anyone would like to

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Warnings: (1) as this is a quite long post, I supressed the sections that I did not use in this summary. For the complete summary model, read the previous post; (2) if you are acquainted to this book chapter, please skip the main ideas and go straight to the section entitled "IDEAS THAT OCURRED DURING READING" (down this page) where I include my own comments on it. TITLE: Theory of

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I came up with an idea for start to fill up this blog and motivate some good debates: I will start sharing here some of my personal summaries. I've made so far over 100 summaries of interesting publications related to my PhD work. The first thing I'd like to share, then, is the model I use for these summaries, which end up being very, very useful everytime I write papers/chapters. Special thanks

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Today I was thinking about how much our likes and dislikes depend on our own expectations of things, places, or people. I guess everybody has experienced something similar with this: that big Hollywood production you were waiting for is finally in the movies and you can't wait to see it! So, you call your friends and make sure you have tickets for the big premiere. Then, what a disappointment:

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This is my first blog post ever. And as in every first time, I feel this kind of butterfly feeling in the stomach... Now, there is this blank form waiting for me to type... but there is a bigger blank in my mind... So, I guess the only thing that really occurs to me now is explain what led me to create this blog in the first place. I got acquainted to blogs in the Summer of 2003, when a

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