It was a presentation on bottom-up knowledge management by Lee Bryant that really got me thinking about the power of blogs to help support and shape the way that communities develop - whether in corporate or community settings. I've learned much more over the past couple of years from Lee and Livio Hughes at Headshift, not least because they practice what they preach by blogging so thoughtfully themselves.
It was particularly good therefore to see that they had won the Innovation in Knowledge Management 2005 award for the Knowledge Community which they developed for the National Institute for Mental Health in England.
Both Lee and Livio have strong personal interests and backgrounds in politics and nonprofits, and manage to combine that with doing business in a pretty competitive environment. It's that sort of cross-over that makes social software people interesting, and as the award shows their role important beyond the tech tools they develop.
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