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| PRINT | | Slim – inexpensive – transparent |
 Weblogs as a smart content management system play an increasingly important part in eBusiness. For CHECKpoint eLearning, Joscha Remus spoke with consultant Martin Röll about this inexpensive and transparent communication tool. Röll supports companies in the integration of Weblogs, Wikis, Social Software and RSS into their knowledge management processes. His "eBusiness Weblog" is one of the most widely read works on the topic in Germany.
In what way are weblogs interesting in the context of eLearning?
Martin Röll: As a consultant and knowledge worker I’m not that interested in formal scenarios, but in informal learning, because it has an interface to knowledge management and is connected with the daily work of a knowledge worker. That is something companies pay too little attention to. We have seminars and further education – but we have bad tools to support an employee in learning day by day "just in time". The employees use the mail client to send links back and forth, they even save their documents in the mail client. Thus neither the processes nor the tools are as efficient as they could be.
In a few words: what is a blogger?
Martin Röll: That’s not that easy to answer: to say "a blogger" is not precise enough – people use blogging for many different purposes – as knowledge blogs, as personal diaries, as mobile bloggers, etc.
Talking about mobile: Which role in distance learning will the mobile blogs play in the future?
Martin Röll: Special moblogs will not play a specific role. But it is important to see that employees become mobile more and more. Everywhere they are they have to stay in contact with their network. Therefore we nowadays carry notebooks around. Bloggers on the go are always searching for connectivity because they use their weblog to stay in contact with their network. Mobile blogging today still is difficult because reading other blogs is a part of blogging. Unfortunately you cannot always access your information sources on the go because the broadband is often lacking.
The blog pioneer Lilia Efimova has said that weblogs are technologically simple but socially complex. What is interesting for companies in this kind of social groupware?
Martin Röll: Once Jim McGee expressed it very nicely: Blogging makes invisible processes apparent. After all, the problem with knowledge work is that many of the products and intermediate products are invisible.
At the end you mostly have a finished product or decision, but the previous process is not visible. That’s what weblogs can achieve. With them you can collect, structure and link information. The process becomes visible for the employee himself but also for other employees. Thus they can see better what others are working on, and networks can emerge.
In the USA there are 25.000 business blogs, in Germany at best a hundred. Where are the advantages of the bottom-up-approach in blogging in the field of internal communication, and how can blogging complete eBusiness?
Martin Röll: Recently a banker at a large financial institution told me that if the bank checked only the Google searches made by the employees daily, they would probably detect that at least thirty have made the same request. All collect the same information but independently from each other! It would be very interesting if an employee knew what colleagues were working on or what they are searching for. If they all had this overview, they could work and collaborate much more efficiently.
That’s exactly what blogs can achieve. Collect information, make visible and transparent what someone is dealing with. You can start on a very low level with link blogs and social bookmarking tools. It’s not about long, well expressed blogs, but about simple tools which support transparency and networking. "These colleagues are already familiar with the document you just found. Do you want to see who they are? Do you want to communicate with them?"
How do companies react to the new knowledge tool weblog?
Martin Röll: They experiment with it very carefully. Often individual employees start with a weblog, save information, and make it available to their colleagues. Then the next weblog starts and so on – finally a weblog network evolves. Companies are well-advised to provide to their employees good tools for their personal knowledge management and the communication with colleagues.
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