Posted 8:24 PM by George Siemens
Portals, Blogs, & RSS: why they are your future via OLDaily
Comment: Talk about timing!...I just had a meeting this afternoon with a small group at RRC about using blogs and RSS as a knowledge management strategy for the college. As a grassroots KM group, our objective is to get people to share information and connect with others. We hope to get instructors and staff from across the college blogging, linking, and RSSing until a robust knowledge sharing culture exists. Obviously a several year goal...but if we can get 5 - 6 committed bloggers at the start, it would be a great way to showcase the value of simple, social technologies.

...and on that note, here is and EXCELLENT post from John Robb on K-logs

Posted 8:18 PM by George Siemens
Faceted Classification of Information
Quotes: "Given the significant difficulties in categorizing books, papers, and articles using traditional library classification techniques, it would seem next to impossible for humans to classify the small chunks of rapidly changing information that characterize information-intensive business environments. But it’s not. Library and information science professionals have already provided the foundations of an alternative to traditional classification techniques: faceted classification.
Comment: I'm intrigued with the concept of information storage, archiving, and retrieval (no idea why...but I am). Central to this process is classification. Previously linear classification schemes don't work (as well) anymore...an approach is needed that allows flexible access, variety of information display, context sensitive searching, etc.

Posted 8:05 PM by George Siemens
I had an opportunity to interview Jay Cross of Internettime recently...here is the link: Jay Cross Interview. Jay presents a good overview of the background of elearning, where elearning is at today...and current directions.