The KM4D Journal is produced by the KM4Dev-community and I was honored to participate on the editorial team for the the recently published issued on "Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development." Nancy White and Lucie Lamoureux lead a team editors which include myself, Partha Sarker, Oreoluwa Somolu, Beverly Trayner, and Brenda Zulu. The issues contains articles, case studies, interviews, and community notes.
While the focus is on organizations and contexts in development work, anyone who works for a nonprofit, and needs to learn about how to integrate web2.0 in terms of adoption issues, knowlege management, and online community building should read this. The articles are all good, so I can't pick out a favorite.
I enjoyed, along with Nancy White, interviewing ethnographer and blogger Dina Mehta, about the role of technology steward in the context of voluntary online disaster relief work. We covered the choice and deployment of software, volunteer organization, mutual support and distributed leadership.
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