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The Wiki Way

Ward Cunningham was searching for a new way of collaboration while he was cooperating on the Design Patters book by the Gang of Four. He came up with a very simple web application for collaboration. Legend has it that Cunningham attended a conference in Honolulu while he was working on his system. And when the shuttle bus at the airport arrived, he had a name for it. The bus transfer is called “wiki wiki”, after the Hawaiian word for very quick.
That’s how he called his system: The wiki wiki web.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsMay 9, 2011 ago

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The Experience Factory

During the literature study of my Ph.D. thesis I came across an interesting concept, which I would like to briefly write about here. Even before the term knowledge management became popular, Victor R. Basili presented his experience factory [1].

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsApril 19, 2011 ago

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The KiWi Project

My PhD studies were held within a project, funded by the European Commission: The KiWi Project – Knowledge in a Wiki

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsApril 6, 2011 ago

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Knowledge… what is that?

You can’t really be involved with knowledge management without asking: What is knowledge? Well, knowledge is probably one of the oldest concepts of mankind. Ancient philosophers already tried to define it and built a whole theory (epistemology) around. I would like to point out a very nice description by Davenport & Pruzak in their book “Working Knowledge” [1]. This blog post however is my own explanation of knowledge.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsNovember 4, 2010 ago

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KiWi Release Party

The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of our collaborative knowledge management software was published. To celebrate that, the project organized a release party in the planetarium in Vienna, Austria.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsOctober 18, 2010 ago

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Lass laufen!

Wie schon 2008 und 2009 mache ich heute wieder beim Blog Action Day mit. Diesmal geht’s ums Thema Wasser. Ich habe ein bisschen übers Wasser gegrübelt. Und eigentlich sehe ich keine wirkliche Verbindung zum Wasser in meinem Leben. Gut, ich lebe seit ungefähr 8½ Jahren ausschließlich in Städten die ein Read more…

By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsOctober 15, 2010 ago

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Engaged Scholarship

During the summer school and the conference I recently attended, the topic was engaged scholarship. Since Van de Ven published his book [1] in 2007, this topic has been broadly discussed, especially in the Scandinavia information systems community. Reason enough for me to take a closer look at the book and a brief explanation, why it makes a lot of noise in northern Europe.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsSeptember 20, 2010 ago

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EuroSPI 2010

Last week (September 1 – 3, 2010) I have been in Grenoble, France. That was the location for the 17th Conference of European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI² 2010). The organizers focus on embracing industry, with speakers and audience equally being researchers and practitioners (Keynotes by Ivar Jacobson, Andreas Riel and Cristina Romcea).

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsSeptember 6, 2010 ago

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SCIS & IRIS 2010

The last few days (August 20 – 24, 2010) I spent participating the Scandinavian Conference of IS & IRIS Seminar in Rebild, a few kilometers outside Aalborg, Denmark. The time was divided into two parts, the first two days were the 1st Scandinavian Conference of IS (SCIS 2010), while the rest of the time was the 33rd IRIS Seminar (IRIS 2010). Even though many people participated both, the two parts were quite different in many aspects.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsAugust 24, 2010 ago

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Polanyi’s Tacit Dimension

Most of the research regarding knowledge management has some relation, be it directly or not, to Michael Polanyi’s book »The Tacit Dimension«[1], published in 1966. He was a polymath born in Hungary, who published thoughts and works in fields across economics, philosophy and physical chemistry.

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By Karsten Jahn, 14 yearsAugust 10, 2010 ago

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DaRSIS Summer School 2010

I spent the last week (May 2- 8, 2010) as one of 20 PhD students from Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden and Germany in a former monastery called Magleås, not far from Copenhagen, Denmark. It was a summer school organized by the Danish Research School for Information Systems (DaRSIS).

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By Karsten Jahn, 15 yearsMay 10, 2010 ago

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A Home-Story: The Ruhr-District

Some time ago I was born (and raised afterwards) in a town called Herten, in the northern part of what we call Ruhrpott, the Ruhr-District. In 2010 this, being the 3rd biggest agglomeration area of the EU, is the European capital of culture. I’m aware of the fact, that, besides Read more…

By Karsten Jahn, 15 yearsJanuary 14, 2010 ago