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Generating & sharing knowledge

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“Does anyone know anything about…”

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“Just wondering if anyone else has had to come up with a solution for a similar situation…”

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“I think someone at HMRC once did a thing which was similar but they left. Try asking Jemima.”

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Sharing knowledge online seems to take one of two forms.

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@morganesque DWP Digital the first is…

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@morganesque DWP Digital Just stick it online and will find it.

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@morganesque DWP Digital Make things open it makes them better.

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@morganesque DWP Digital Not everything we want to share is on the open web.

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@morganesque DWP Digital Not everything on Google is what we’re interested in.

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@morganesque DWP Digital the second is…

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@morganesque DWP Digital Gathered Vetted Monitored

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@morganesque DWP Digital Chart from Intelligent Positioning showing Wikipedia's positions on Google for 1,000 randomly generated search terms: It’s successful…

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… 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

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@morganesque DWP Digital Right now we use…

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@morganesque DWP Digital

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@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.

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@morganesque DWP Digital best of both worlds?

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@morganesque DWP Digital Pinboard social bookmarking?

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@morganesque DWP Digital marx

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@morganesque DWP Digital A play on the word “bookmarks” #votelabour

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dwp-marx.herokuapp.com

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