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Blogging for Knowledge Workers... Personal KM Path to Social KM?

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 16:46 — CAHeidelberger
Lilia Efimova provides a good summary of the benefits of blogging for knowledge workers (knowledge workers: if the physical artifacts of your day's labor are documents, or if you don't produce any physical documents at work, that's you). If you're trying to explain to your co-workers or your boss why blogging would be good for your organization, Efimova's explanation is a good place to start.

USF "Theatre of Social Change" Course Uses Blogs

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 15:48 — CAHeidelberger
Kim Bartling, professor of communication studies and theater at the University of Sioux Falls, posts the blogs of her students in USF’s CST409 Theatre of Social Change:
In Sioux Falls:

Authority Zen: Multiple Voices Necessary, So Write Online!

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 13:45 — CAHeidelberger
Lincoln (1997) tells me all texts are partial. To even approach telling the whole story, we need multiple voices.

From Coding to Context: Social Media Require Social Research

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:46 — CAHeidelberger
Reviewing my notes from Tierney and Lincoln (1997), I return to their declaration of principles to which they feel bound as authors of Representation and the Text (pp.

Social Knowledge Management -- Seminar Presentation

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 17:13 — CAHeidelberger
I presented a brief overview of social knowledge management for our online seminar course here at Dakota State University last Friday. Here are the slides, courtesy of SlideShare:

Autoethnography in Information Systems: Any Takers?

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 14:23 — CAHeidelberger

It is with relief that I learn that it doesn't matter if I call my methodology scholarly personal narrative or autoethnography. My advisor doesn't think either meets the standards of rigor for information systems research.

Is he right? Is anyone doing SPN/autoethnography in information systems research? And if they are, are they being rightfully laughed out of the field?

IFIP 8.2 OASIS Proposal

Sun, 10/25/2009 - 21:29 — CAHeidelberger

I suppose there are worse ways a guy could spend couple days in December. The IFIP Working Group 8.2 is holding its Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) 2009 workshop in Phoenix on December 15 (Oasis... Phoenix... get it?). The program is being held in conjunction with the big ICIS 2009 conference.

Justification: SPN Perfect Methodology for DSU D.Sc. Program

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 12:58 — CAHeidelberger

A common theme in Nash's (2004) advocacy of scholarly personal narrative is the desire of his graduate students to write about their experiences. This desire is no mere self-absorption (although Ellis [1997, pp. 122-123] has something to say about that). Nash's graduate students include lots of practitioners, folks who've taught and coached and administered for years. They bring a wealth of professional and personal experience to the classroom and to their research.

Intersections: Multilogue Everywhere

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 20:22 — CAHeidelberger

I read Ellis (1997), a brilliant example of "dialogic, multivocal narrative," and my antennae go all criss-cross haywire and pick up three channels at once. "Dialogic, multivocal narrative" is central to scholarly personal narrative, social knowledge management, and the online dissertation.

Intertwingling Motivations: Critical Constructivism, Blogs, and Scholarly Personal Narrative

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:32 — CAHeidelberger

Kincheloe (1997) swings the big hammer for critical constructivism. There's a paragraph where he brands traditional positivist methods "fraudulent" (his italics!) in their assertion that "there is a correct way to represent reality" (p. 59).

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