Drupal mention in Library Journal article on KM

Excellent article, Michael. I promoted your announcement to the front page and added an entry to the Drupal presentations and articles page even though it is not strictly about Drupal.

I too think it is an excellent article on a very interesting subject.
Knowledge Management has been misunderstood so much, that it is refreshing when a new perspective comes up.
K-logging is such a perspective.
If you go to the sources, you'll see that KM initially tried to deal with the informal knowledge sharing networks. It is no coincidence that the "water-cooler" conversations were taken as a model for knowledge management content.
However when big corporate consulting got hold of KM, it turned it from a bottom-up project to a top-down project. They did so partly because they knew that the big money are in the big project, and imposing one big systems solution on a corporation to deal with all knowledge is such a "big money project". The other reason is that they can only think top-down - because they are schooled in organizational thinking from a systems perspective. If they were anthropologically schooled they would approach this in a different way.
To see You propose a bottom-up approach to KM is so refreshing and reassuring. Things have not gone all wrong. There's still hope that knowledge sharing will evade these centralized solutions. Actually I believe that the only hope for knowledge management and informal sharing of knowledge is to embrace a bottom-up approach, exactly because people cannot let their personal knowledge be only part of a centralized corporate taxonomy. It is much too personal for that, and it would mean to cease to exist if you were to let the corporate central solution take over the categorization of all of your thoughts on your job.

Drupal comes in handy here. I have tried to find other tools as excellent at doing knowledge sharing and aggregation. I have not found any yet. Most tools that are labeled Content Management Systems are focused on other aspects of dealing with information and content. Just as e-learning tools do while they focus on reproducing the organisational structure of a university, so do content management systems often reproduce the organisational structure of a publishing organisation, or a web-bureau.
Drupals success is partly due to its ability to evade and negotiate such concepts - and stay focussed on other aspects of dealing with content - such as the ability to share content across several sites.

Just my 2 cents.

Gunnar