Marx - Sharing Knowledge

A talk about a little social bookmarking tool I built as an experiment to try and solve some of the knowledge sharing problems we are having at work.

Transcript

1. Generating & sharing knowledge
2. “Does anyone know anything about…”
3. “Just wondering if anyone else has had to come up with a solution for a similar situation…”
4. “I think someone at HMRC once did a thing which was similar but they left. Try asking Jemima.”
6. Sharing knowledge online seems to take one of two forms.
7. @morganesque DWP Digital the first is…
8. @morganesque DWP Digital Just stick it online and will find it.
9. @morganesque DWP Digital Make things open it makes them better.
10. @morganesque DWP Digital Not everything we want to share is on the open web.
11. @morganesque DWP Digital Not everything on Google is what we’re interested in.
12. @morganesque DWP Digital the second is…
13. @morganesque DWP Digital Gathered Vetted Monitored
14. @morganesque DWP Digital Chart from Intelligent Positioning showing Wikipedia's positions on Google for 1,000 randomly generated search terms: It’s successful…
15. … but it takes a lot of effort @morganesque DWP Digital WikiGnome – having desirable traits of an editor who quietly attends to details of the encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFauna
16. @morganesque DWP Digital Right now we use…
17. @morganesque DWP Digital
18. @morganesque DWP Digital Anything that takes too much effort won’t happen. Anything that has a central bottle-neck will stall. Anything that doesn’t make it’s contents really easily discoverable won’t be of value.
19. @morganesque DWP Digital best of both worlds?
20. @morganesque DWP Digital Pinboard social bookmarking?
21. @morganesque DWP Digital marx
22. @morganesque DWP Digital A play on the word “bookmarks” #votelabour
23. dwp-marx.herokuapp.com
24. show the thing