Andy Boyd proposes an experiment to see if blogs can be used as a means to transfer tacit knowledge in an apprenticeship situation. His blog readers being the apprentices. Tacit in this case meaning that the readers will learn what Andy would answer to certain KM-related questions. I like the idea.
Reading someones weblog over time gives you good idea of the writer on the aspects covered in the weblog, I think. At least it certainly feels that way. People who have been reading my blog in the last year probably know what my take on KM is. So my hypothesis is that Andy’s experiment will show a transfer of tacit knowledge. The question however is, how effective will it be, e.g. compared to face to face time. How much time will be needed for the effect to show up? So Andy will have to ask his readers how often and closely they follow his blog as well.