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.

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1. Generating &
   sharing knowledge
   

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2. “Does anyone know
   anything about…”
   

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

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

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6. Sharing knowledge
   online seems to take
   one of two forms.
   

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7. @morganesque DWP Digital
   the first is…
   

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

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

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

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

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12. @morganesque DWP Digital
    the second is…
    

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13. @morganesque DWP Digital
    Gathered
    Vetted
    Monitored
    

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14. @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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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
    

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16. @morganesque DWP Digital
    Right now we use…
    

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17. @morganesque DWP Digital
    

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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.
    

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19. @morganesque DWP Digital
    best of both worlds?
    

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20. @morganesque DWP Digital
    Pinboard
    social bookmarking?
    

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21. @morganesque DWP Digital
    marx
    

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

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23. dwp-marx.herokuapp.com
    

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24. show the thing
    

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