“K-Logs vs. Email? What!?”

Yesterday John Robb posted a piece about communications efficiency to his "K-Logs" marketing list on Yahoo Groups.

I tried to respond, twice, but my response never went through. Rather than remain silent, I'm posting it here.

("K-Logs" are John's idea for knowledge management: weblogs written by professionals in a given field, usually within an organization and primarily for an intra-organizational audience.)

For context, I recommend reading John's message first.

On 6/7/02, John Robb said:

>200 e-mails:  3-4 hours (relevant e-mails only, including
>inefficient repetitive replies due to a lack of viewable
>archiving).

Use a system like Conversant that integrates email responses into your "klogs", and you get a spam-free system that allows people to read your "klog" entries in their browser, Radio, or email, and then discuss the items via email either privately or publicly ("publicly" meaning on the the site's integrated discussion list).

Now you have email archives that are integrated with your "klogs", and any email which deserves it can even be published to your klog!

>50 K-logs with 10 posts a day (500 entries): 20 minutes to
>scan.  20 minutes to post responses.

So we're able to basically read and respond to "klogs" more than 10 times faster than email, huh? Is that an inherent trait of "klogs"?

Seth Dillingham
http://www.truerwords.net/