In the introduction to their book „Managing Flow, A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm“, Nonaka/Toyama/Hirata are very sceptical about the use of IT for knowledge management. They write: „In the world of business practice, knowledge management first took the form of heavy investment in information technologies (IT), an approach that turned out to be painfully ineffective, if not a downright failure.

Today we will talk about the Discuto document parser and the way it transforms your document into a live discussion. There are some broad lines you will have to follow for the parser to do what you want and hopefully those are not too strict and can be followed without big changes to your document.  Some of those are standards you already follow in your normal docs.

In a recent article, Prieto-Martin et al (2012) voiced criticism over resource-intensive eParticipation projects organized by established institutions “top down” and advocated a low key grass roots approach “bottom up”. We want to look into this issue by comparing the results of a number of eParticipation projects managed by Cbased where documents were discussed and voted on the paragraph level by different types of communities.

Hello,

We are happy to announce we have released our Google marketplace app.

The app targets two different groups, with different set of features for each one acording to their needs. One of this groups is Google domain administrators. The app provides unique set of features for users managing their domain with Google apps, providing a seamingless workflow plugging itself perfectly in your current Google environment.

Creating, managing and developing a discussion can seem like a challenge, but it’s easier than you might think. 

The key is keeping people informed and up-to-date with developments, which is why Discuto comes with a messaging system. 

Here are some other ways Discuto can help, along with some general discussion tips: