Some time ago I was honored to be interviewed by Marc Giles of The Economist for an article about social networking and business. It was part of several articles about this topic. The articles were published on the web and in the Jan. 30 printed issue. A great set of articles with my two cents!
Today is my blog's birthday! Man, time does fly. Three years ago I thought I'd give it a go. Never looked back after that.
I still enjoy blogging. My blogging has changed over the years. In the first year I blogged a lot. In the second year I blogged less, and wanted to focus more on quality. I hope my readers think this worked out OK. Concluding from my growing number of readers I think the answer is 'yes'.
My reasons to blog have not changed. It's a great way to connect to people also interesting in information architecture, information management, knowledge management, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and innovation. Although the conversation about blog posts has almost completely moved to Twitter, writing up my thoughts is still very helpful. It helps me structure my thoughts and test my ideas. I also like the fact that I can share these ideas and thoughts at times when people need them. They're on my blog, but you don't need to read them right away. It can me months later before someone is interested in what you wrote. No problem.
Well, 2010 has started. Let's see what this year is going to bring us. Happy blogging!
Recently I was honored to co-write a paper with Olha Bondarenko and Ruud Janssen. It is titled: ''Requirements for the Design of a Personal Document-Management System" and was published in JASIST.
I think Olha's work in general and this paper in particular is very valuable for the whole information, content and document management industry. Because it truly tries to understand how knowledge workers use information and documents. That knowledge is translated into requirements/principles for a document management system.
But you decide if Olha/we succeeded! I hope you like it.
This paper was written in the context of Olha's PhD research - which was finalized recently! - about personal information management. Her PhD defense will be on February 11 (at the Technical University in Eindhoven, The Netherlands). I hope to be there and will blog/tweet about it.
