Blogging Activity

Blog Posts and Links

Goal from Syllabus: There are no due dates for blog posts, but to maximize grades, posts should be spaced out every five to ten days and generally be well distributed across the semester.

Goal adjusted 6 March: You are now only required to write 8 blog posts instead of 11. If you’ve already achieved 8 posts or have come close to it, then feel free to focus on blog commenting and on your paper.

Goal from Outline: 8 reading-related blog entries on WordPress.com by the end of the semester; entries cover 3 articles per blog entry; 1 entry every 5 – 10 days.

I wrote 15 posts over the period of 9 January – 29 April 2018. Eleven of the posts were based on class readings and one was a required posting about my tagging system. Three posts were either introductory or not fully based on class readings. The eight required posts were made over the period 24 Jan 2018 through 1 March 2018. For the semester, excluding the time off for Spring Break, the average time between all posts was 8.4 days; roughly once per week. The required eight posts were made prior to shifting focus to the paper; the average posting cycle for the 8 required posts was 5.5 days, with the minimum inter-post frequency of 3 days and a maximum inter-post frequency of 8 days. The class paper activity slowed the rate down significantly; only two posts during the 5-week period while working on the paper.

Links to significant posts include those found below:

• Terrible things, yes, but great
• If you don’t write it down, it will never happen
• Adages, Idioms, Proverbs, are Lessons Learned
• Sea Stories and Fairy Tales

Dates and Timeline

See Table 1: Blogging Activity Timeline, for a detailed view of the blogging activity.

Article Usage Rate

Goal from Syllabus: Select and read 17 articles from the review, etc. category and 16 articles from the research, etc. category. Each blog post will include a critical discussion of three article readings drawn from the reading list. Your blogs should be publicly available.

For the semester, I used 34 articles for the 11 blog posts. I used 17 of 17 from the review set and 17 of 16 from the research category. On average, I used 3.4 articles per blog post.

Post Length

Goal: Posts should be at least 500 words in length and must include full references for each work discussed.

Excluding the two posts that are not entirely class-related, the average post length is 1096 words, with a minimum length of 657 words. Every post cited at least 3 articles from the reading list.

Goal: You need to create a professional bio/about page for your WordPress site.

The WordPress site used for the blogging activity contains an updated About page.

Reading Synthesis

Goal from Outline: How do your blog posts reflect a synthesis of your readings?

I generally attempted to relate the readings to an experience I had in the past or to current events. Using this technique, I was able to illustrate my point effectively and often. One comment (from the teacher) was, “Brilliant post, Matt…” I admit to feeling pleased receiving that comment.

Cross-Linking Activities

Goal from Outline: How many fellow student blog posts have you linked to? Whose posts did you link to (include links)? How did you link to these posts based on ideas and not exact readings?

Of the ten blog posts I made over the semester, I linked to 28 other student blog posts; an average of 2.8 links per post. At first, there was little student activity to link to; over time, as the number of student posts increased, I was able to go back and add in links to other students and source material to help illustrate my own blogging. I would often use the Bibsonomy.org search functions to help me identify a student using the same papers as I did; later I could use that technique to find topics similar to my post’s theme and insert a linkback.

Bibliographic Management

Source Posting Rate and Links

Goal from Syllabus: Add all of your readings to your bibliographic reference manager account on BibSonomy.org, as you read them. Add only those works that you read Readings will include the articles from the course reading list and additional literature related to papers, etc. All readings added to the bibliographic reference manager should have at least three tags.

Goal from Outline: 1 BibSonomy entry for each reading list article you are reading this semester; at least 3 tags per entry

I posted 55 articles within bibsonomy.org. Typically, these were tagged with keywords about the article itself; later, I started to tag the articles with why they were accessed. If used for the paper, they were tagged with ‘Thesis’, if for class then they were tagged with ‘LIS658’.

Links to posts made in bibsonomy.org:

• Why Should I Share? Examining Social Capital and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice
• Knowledge Management Enablers, Processes, and Organizational Performance: An Integrative View and Empirical Examination
• Social capital in the creation of human capital
• Toward a Theory of Knowledge Reuse: Types of Knowledge Reuse Situations and Factors in Reuse Success
• Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation
• The Information Society: From Fordism to Gatesism

Source Completeness

All fields in bibsonomy.org are complete for each entry made.

Tagging Rates

Goal from Outline: Have you assigned at least three tags to each bibliographic reference?

Yes.

Tagging System

Goal from Syllabus: Classify your reading list using a tagging system (folksonomy) that contains thematic and topical elements for each reading.

Goal from Syllabus: At the end of the semester, write a 500-word blog post statement on your tagging patterns and also suggest a methodology for future tagging.

All articles read for class were tagged with multiple (minimum 3) keywords. Additionally, a blog post on the need for a tagging system and the design time implications was published.

Blog Commenting

Commenting Rates and Links

Goal from Syllabus: Post at least 25 comments on other blogs by the end of the semester

Goal from Outline: Blog commenting activity (25 blog comments on fellow student blog posts by the end of the semester

During the period 11 Jan 2018 through 23 April 2018, I initiated 48 comments across 47 blog posts, which generated 32 responses. I participated in 20 responses, which had 6 follow-on comments. See Table 1: Blog Commenting Activity.

Pacing of Comments

I was typically able to comment on each blog post shortly after posting. Given that I commented, or responded to a comment thread, on 47 blog posts during the semester, I submit that the pace of my commenting activity was very high.

Discussion Promotion

Goal from Outline: In your comments, how are you promoting discussion?

By asking questions, soliciting opinions from the writers, and in relating the discussion / comment to the post or other items that were brought up in the thread, I was able to promote discussion. That 75% of my comments resulted in a follow-on response shows that I was fostering discussion.

Slacking Activity

Slack Rates and Timeline

Goal from Syllabus: Discuss and share information, ideas, thoughts, and ask questions on Slack when not commenting on specific blog posts.

Goal from Outline: 2 – 3 slack messages per week. (Note: For an 11-week course, that should come to 22-33 comments).

During the period 11 Jan through 23 April, I made 158 comments via Slack, which is very active. On average, I made at least one comment on Slack every 2.6 days, with a minimum inter-comment periodicity of 1 day and a maximum periodicity of 10 days.

Conclusion

Summary

The level of effort shown was very high. More importantly, the level of engagement between teacher and fellow students was very high. The thread response level was quite high, showing that I was able to both comment, blog, and slack proficiently and with a high degree of engagement with my fellow students. As all requirements were met or exceeded, that warrants an ‘A’ grade for the semester.

Benchmarking

Table 1: Blogging Activity Timeline shows the level of attainment and performance against each goal. Each goal was met or exceeded.

Blog	Author	Post Title	Date	Comments
				Initiated	Responses	Replied	Follow-ons
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Knowledge Transfer with Johnson et al., Dugiud and Collins.	11-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Matt Taylor	Matthew Taylor	First Blog Post: Passing on Tacit Knowledge	12-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	knowledge, a monster we might create	18-Jan-18	2	0	0	0
Ephemerata	Matthew Coblentz	Spieglein, spieglein an der wand, wer ist die Schonste im ganzen Land?	21-Jan-18	1	0	2	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Some basic groundwork ….. Blog Post 1	21-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Some basic groundwork ….. Blog Post 1	21-Jan-18	2	0	0	0
Jennnippert	Jennifer Nippert	Learning the playbook, the story, and how to play at K(nowledge)M(anagement)	22-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
Ephemerata	Matthew Coblentz	Strategy or S-tragedy?	24-Jan-18	0	0	1	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management Systems Design: Organizing Organizations	25-Jan-18	1	2	0	0
C Sean Burns	Sean Burns	Personal Knowledge and Science	26-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
C Sean Burns	Sean Burns	Personal Knowledge and Science	26-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Carolyne’s Journey in LIS	Carolyne Millsap	Bridging Epistemologies of Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations with Social Media	27-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Background Knowledge?	27-Jan-18	1	2	0	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management: Risky Business Managing Business Risk?	31-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
	Hank Lankford	Knowing & Knowlege: The Role of Storytelling	5-Feb-18	1	1	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Knowledge Creation and Transfer	5-Feb-18	1	2	0	0
JA Valentine	Jennifer Valentine	Appreciate The Importance of Diversity in Knowledge Sharing	7-Feb-18	0	0	1	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	Before Disaster Strikes	8-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	Before Disaster Strikes	8-Feb-18	0	0	0	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management: Social Media Platforms…not just for sharing status upda	9-Feb-18	1	3	3	0
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	We can’t read minds, so what now?	11-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
JA Valentine	Jennifer Valentine	2nd Blog Post	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Amelia Blogs	Ameliablogs	Tardy to the Party	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
wil	Wil Silberman	regrets 2.0	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Bounded Awareness, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, and Knowledge Transfer	19-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Not sure why I posted that, but I’m glad I did	20-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
LIS 658: Knowledge Management	Robert Prestley	Blog 4: Communities of Practice	27-Feb-18	1	1	0	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	on being anxious and uncertain: a case for codification	27-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Trust in the Face of Adversity	9-Mar-18	3	1	2	0
cmwilson	CM Wilson	Psychological Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition	10-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Information Cities, Information Society, and the Knowledge Economy	10-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
Matt Taylor	Matthew Taylor	Blog Post 3: Knowledge Processes, Organizations, and Knowledge Managem	11-Mar-18	1	2	0	0
wil	Wil Silberman	happy accidents in an information society	12-Mar-18	0	0	1	0
Carolyne’s Journey in LIS	Carolyne Millsap	A Tale of Two Hurricanes: Information Sharing and Trust During Major Incidents an	25-Mar-18	1	0	1	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and perhaps goofing up	25-Mar-18	4	2	1	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Remembering People in an Information Society with Tremblay, Rule & Bese	26-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Temporary Relief	4-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Overcoming Knowledge Transfer Impediments with Szulanski, Lucas, and Yuan & Zhao	4-Apr-18	1	0	0	0
KM Blog by Will	William Sexton	My Knowledge is My Job Security	17-Apr-18	2	2	4	4
Wil	Wil Silberman	be humble.	18-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Are you seeing what I’m seeing? (alternately titled: Are you codifying what I’m codifyin	18-Apr-18	1	0	1	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Lessons Learned in Crises and Disasters with Wang & Lu, Weichselgartn	19-Apr-18	1	7	1	1
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Transferring the most excellent, desirable, effective, and – could we even say – best practices	23-Apr-18	0	0	1	0
LIS 658: Knowledge Management	Robert Prestley	Blog 7: Knowledge Management & Science	23-Apr-18	1	0	0	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	A Melding of the Minds–Knowledge Transfer	24-Apr-18	1	1	1	1
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Roll for initiative!	25-Apr-18	0	0	1	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Blog post # 5 – Knowledge hiding, Knowledge transfer in an organizational crisis and	27-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
			Posts	Initiated	Responses	Replied	Follow-ons
Totals			47	48	32	21	6

Table : Blog Commenting Activity

Blog	Author	Post Title	Date	Comments
				Initiated	Responses	Replied	Follow-ons
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Knowledge Transfer with Johnson et al., Dugiud and Collins.	11-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Matt Taylor	Matthew Taylor	First Blog Post: Passing on Tacit Knowledge	12-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	knowledge, a monster we might create	18-Jan-18	2	0	0	0
Ephemerata	Matthew Coblentz	Spieglein, spieglein an der wand, wer ist die Schonste im ganzen Land?	21-Jan-18	1	0	2	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Some basic groundwork ….. Blog Post 1	21-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Some basic groundwork ….. Blog Post 1	21-Jan-18	2	0	0	0
Jennnippert	Jennifer Nippert	Learning the playbook, the story, and how to play at K(nowledge)M(anagement)	22-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
Ephemerata	Matthew Coblentz	Strategy or S-tragedy?	24-Jan-18	0	0	1	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management Systems Design: Organizing Organizations	25-Jan-18	1	2	0	0
C Sean Burns	Sean Burns	Personal Knowledge and Science	26-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
C Sean Burns	Sean Burns	Personal Knowledge and Science	26-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Carolyne’s Journey in LIS	Carolyne Millsap	Bridging Epistemologies of Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations with Social Media	27-Jan-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Background Knowledge?	27-Jan-18	1	2	0	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management: Risky Business Managing Business Risk?	31-Jan-18	1	1	0	0
	Hank Lankford	Knowing & Knowlege: The Role of Storytelling	5-Feb-18	1	1	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Knowledge Creation and Transfer	5-Feb-18	1	2	0	0
JA Valentine	Jennifer Valentine	Appreciate The Importance of Diversity in Knowledge Sharing	7-Feb-18	0	0	1	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	Before Disaster Strikes	8-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	Before Disaster Strikes	8-Feb-18	0	0	0	0
ICT 658 Journal	Tim Shannon	Knowledge Management: Social Media Platforms…not just for sharing status upda	9-Feb-18	1	3	3	0
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	We can’t read minds, so what now?	11-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
JA Valentine	Jennifer Valentine	2nd Blog Post	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Amelia Blogs	Ameliablogs	Tardy to the Party	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
wil	Wil Silberman	regrets 2.0	18-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Bounded Awareness, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, and Knowledge Transfer	19-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Not sure why I posted that, but I’m glad I did	20-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
LIS 658: Knowledge Management	Robert Prestley	Blog 4: Communities of Practice	27-Feb-18	1	1	0	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	on being anxious and uncertain: a case for codification	27-Feb-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Trust in the Face of Adversity	9-Mar-18	3	1	2	0
cmwilson	CM Wilson	Psychological Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition	10-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
	Stephen Antczak	Information Cities, Information Society, and the Knowledge Economy	10-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
Matt Taylor	Matthew Taylor	Blog Post 3: Knowledge Processes, Organizations, and Knowledge Managem	11-Mar-18	1	2	0	0
wil	Wil Silberman	happy accidents in an information society	12-Mar-18	0	0	1	0
Carolyne’s Journey in LIS	Carolyne Millsap	A Tale of Two Hurricanes: Information Sharing and Trust During Major Incidents an	25-Mar-18	1	0	1	0
Wil	Wil Silberman	on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and perhaps goofing up	25-Mar-18	4	2	1	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Remembering People in an Information Society with Tremblay, Rule & Bese	26-Mar-18	1	0	0	0
Alex’s Knowledge Management	Alexander Vandergrift	Temporary Relief	4-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Overcoming Knowledge Transfer Impediments with Szulanski, Lucas, and Yuan & Zhao	4-Apr-18	1	0	0	0
KM Blog by Will	William Sexton	My Knowledge is My Job Security	17-Apr-18	2	2	4	4
Wil	Wil Silberman	be humble.	18-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Are you seeing what I’m seeing? (alternately titled: Are you codifying what I’m codifyin	18-Apr-18	1	0	1	0
Thought Shop	EB Collier	Lessons Learned in Crises and Disasters with Wang & Lu, Weichselgartn	19-Apr-18	1	7	1	1
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Transferring the most excellent, desirable, effective, and – could we even say – best practices	23-Apr-18	0	0	1	0
LIS 658: Knowledge Management	Robert Prestley	Blog 7: Knowledge Management & Science	23-Apr-18	1	0	0	0
Christy’s ScreedCast	CY Chapman	A Melding of the Minds–Knowledge Transfer	24-Apr-18	1	1	1	1
Lauren Johnson & the Exploration of Knowledge Management	Lauren Johnson	Roll for initiative!	25-Apr-18	0	0	1	0
Adventures in Knowledge Management	Amber Harrison	Blog post # 5 – Knowledge hiding, Knowledge transfer in an organizational crisis and	27-Apr-18	1	1	0	0
			Posts	Initiated	Responses	Replied	Follow-ons
Totals			47	48	32	21	6