Knowledge Management Putting what you’ve learned to work!

The Final Step In this course, we’ve discussed the importance of sharing knowledge within our organization. One of the tools that is used in order to collect knowledge and information in order to share it is a “blog”—you will be creating one as your final course project.

What is a Blog? A blog is short for a Web Log –An on-line journal used to record your own lessons learned and observations –A tool used to share information across a community of users –A blog is whatever you want it to be!

Why a Blog? Blogs are searchable Random thoughts and ideas can be logged without concerns for order, format, or sequence Blogs are already in wide use throughout our community

Where to begin? First, create a blog Go to You will get a screen like this one. Click on the orange button that says “Create A Blog.”

Follow the Directions Enter your: address Password The name you want to have displayed on your blog pages Agree to the legalese Verify that you are not malicious code Click “Continue”

Verify Your Account Enter your cellphone number to get a text message that will allow your to confirm this new account.

Enter Your Confirmation Code Enter the Confirmation Code you just received via text message and click OK

Name Your Blog Name your blog (Jphn’s journal, for example) Select the URL where your blog can be found (use the default setting) Verify the information and validate Click “Continue” when done

Choose a “Look” Select a template for your blog This determines the color scheme and font style You can easily change this later if you don’t like your initial selection! Once you’ve selected a look and feel for your blog, click the orange “Continue” arrow.

Congratulations! You Are Now a Blogger! Now you are a blogger! Click on the orange arrow that invites you to start blogging, go to your blog, and start writing!

Start With What You’ve Already Written Review each of the documents you created in this workshop Once you are happy with what you’ve written, identify some key words that reflect the content Now, edit your blog. Create a new entry, and, one at a time, copy and paste each document as a new blog post Add key terms and key words for each post, and save your postings as your complete the edit of that post

What to Write? Describe a time when you learned a valuable new lesson or skill Tell about an important day in your career Discuss how you learned new information and sorted it all out List some things that you wish you would have known years ago

The Most Important Things Sharing the information and knowledge learned by experience Sharing the organization’s past in order to ensure our future Thank you for participating in the organization’s Knowledge Management program!

Thank you for your contribution to the organization’s future by documenting the past!