SlideShare + Echo360

(Valve Corporation)Group I

Amelie Liedberg, Faris Al-Ahmadi, Nader Harake, Shane Rashid

SLIDE SHARE

• Web 2.0 based slide hosting service

• Private and Public uploads in several formats including PowerPoint, PDF, and Keynote

• Presentations can be viewed on the site itself and even on hand held devices

• Estimated 58 million visitors per month

• 16 million registered users

ECHO 360

• Captures and records classroom individual or individual/group actions and interactions

• Allows the lecturer or the instructor to turn them into lessons where students can replay on any device at any time

• Opens up the possibility to have students more engaged and thus facilitates easier note taking

Comparison Of Both Web 2.0 Tools

SLIDE SHARE

• Created individual accounts

• Explored its boundaries

• Uploaded presentations and shared them with one another

• Viewed them from our tablets

ECHO 360

• Created one account

• Realized that we could only use the service as external viewers

• Requires a different type of subscription

• Depended on it to go over

previous lectures within the module

Our experience

‘Valve Corporation’

• American video game developers • Founded by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and

Mike Harrington • Responsible for the creation of the critically acclaimed

video game series Half-Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead • It has also developed and maintained its own software

distribution platform called ‘Steam’

Knowledge Management

• What is “Knowledge Management”?

• Who founded “Knowledge Management”?

• What principles does “Knowledge Management” follow?

The Collective Knowledge Construction Model

• What is the “Collective Knowledge Construction Model”?

• Further explanation and application towards “Valve Corporation”.

• How the chosen tools of “SlideShare” and “Echo360” apply to “Valve Corporation”.

Theories

• ‘Knowledge Heirarchy’ Pyramid, Ackoff’s Interpretation• Data Information Knowledge (Understanding)

Wisdom• Ikujiro Nonaka, knowledge creation• ‘Explicit and tacit’ • SECI Model • Western managers lack tacit knowledge

Theories (further)

• Noelle Chesley ‘Importance of technology in the workplace’• Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap• British Theorist• Knowledge conservation and transfer within organizations• Leonard’s ‘Wellspring of Knowledge’• Workplace problem solving • Strategy

The Intelligent Exploiter

Effective Systems

Roles and Skills

Integration (problems)

• SlideShare + Echo360 = ?• There are some problems to consider• Too similar! • Echo360 lacks in services• External or internal?

Final product? Conclusion.

• To what extent are these factors problematic?• Both tools can be used together effectively in Valve

Corporation• Integrated in the IT system• However, a combination of both ..• Web 2.0 tools are essential

References• Books• Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. (1995). The Knowledge-Creating Company. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.8-9.• E-books & Online Journals• Bertomeu, J. and Marinovic, I. (2015). A Theory of Hard and Soft Information. 1st ed. [ebook] Available at:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/publication-pdf/main_0.pdf [Accessed 16 Mar. 2015]• "From data to wisdom". Journal of applied systems analysis. Vol 16. pp.3-9• Websites & Online Articles/Interviews• Anon, (2015). [online] Available at: http://www.slideshare.net . 'Slideshare.Net'. N.p., 2015. Web. 20 Mar. 2015. [Accessed 18 Mar.

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References• Valve Corporations. 2015. Company, About Valve. (Accessed: 10.03.2015)

www.valvesoftware.com/company• Workplace technology use may increase both employees’ distress and productivity |

USAPP. 2015. Workplace technology use may increase both employees’ distress and productivity | USAPP. [ONLINE] Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/03/24/workplace-technology-use-may-increase-both-employees-distress-and-productivity/#Author [Accessed 10 March 2015].

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