Knowledge Matters™

I was tempted to call this post “Desperately Seeking Knowledge”, but that would have been unkind. When I first set up this website and blog my intent was to provide a resource that would be useful to people interested in knowledge management and network analysis. I make deductions about usefulness from site traffic, repeat site visits, down-loads, cross site links and so on. I do this using a combination of Clicky Web Analytics and Google Analytics. Clicky in particular provides me with a rich picture about you. So what do I know about you and how you use Knowledge Matters™?

Well you come from all over the world – from Aland to Zambia; from cities as diverse as Bogoso in Ghana to Wollongong in Australia. I know most of you come from the United States and the United Kingdom, but I also have a large readership based in Finland which surprised me. I know I have never had a visitor from the Vatican City, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, or the Republic of Burundi. In fact apart from a couple of regular readers from Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, and Tanzania central Africa is the area where I have the fewest readers.

I know that 72% of you are regular visitors and that you spend on average six minutes somewhere on Knowledge Matters™. In some cases I know exactly who you are because you have corresponded with me or left a comment against a blog – thank you! Clicky allows me to tag you with your name or pseudonym, which means at a glance I can see where you have been and what you are doing on Knowledge Matters™. This too has surprised me a bit.

Apart from the front page the most popular pages are in order:

• Knowledge models ; 
• Knowledge theory ; 
• My papers ; 
• Network analysis visualisations ; 
• Is the pyramid to wisdom useful? ; 
• Seven Steps from Everyone ; and 
• Archetypes Still Don’t Matter!

The most popular downloads are:

• Final research proposal ; 
• Disciplined knowledge management: the path to knowledge productivity ; and 
• Introducing network analysis as a research technique .

The most common search phrase that gets you to Knowledge Matters™ is “knowledge model”, and the most common search phrase on the site itself is “knowledge management model”.

Now if I put all this together my deduction is many of you are students or academics. I know others are knowledge managers and practitioners. I presume because you keep coming back that you find Knowledge Matters™ useful.

But I want to make it more useful for you. In the coming months I will add some pages that deal with specific models like the Cynefin Framework. I’ll expand the knowledge theory pages, post a few more papers and presentations, create more visualisations for you to digest, and of course continue to blog.

What I’d like to know is what you do and don’t like about Knowledge Matters™. I’d like to know what additional content you need, and what you would like me to blog about. I’d like to know who you are, and to put at least a name to an IP address. Feel free to answer these questions by responding to this post, or by completing my feedback form or question form . Your opinions, likes and dislikes, and wants, matter to me!

Regards Graham