eContent - Rich Hoeg’s Blog

Rich Hoeg, Manager, Technical Education & Engineering Information Services at Honeywell, writes the eContent blog with the tagline, Technical Knowledge Management Online Resources. The blog is almost two years old as the archives go back to August 2006. He notes that his 28 year career has moved in tandem with the rise of the micro-computer and the web and includes a focus on knowledge management tools and learning. Back in the 1980's he started Honeywell's computer training program. In the 1990's he built some of Honeywell's first internal and external web services, and now in the new century he is focusing upon knowledge collaboration tools and eLearning for Honeywell. This experience is evident in his blog.

Rich is a client and has written a bit about his experience with Connectbeam on his blog. In his post, Tagging Inside the Firewall, he wrote, “we've brought online a pilot project which is one of the very first, if not the first, internal corporate social networking / tagging applications. By internal I mean the service and server are running inside our network domain, yet our employees will be able to tag both internal and external content…this application is inside our firewall and will allow our engineers to perform knowledge discovery, research and sharing across the miles even if they don't know each other! Connectbeam works in tandem with our internal Google search appliance.”

He recently wrote, the post Data Mining for Knowledge - Educypedia, which he said it could be titled, why I blog, or why I wiki. He commented, “One huge advantage of being the "owner" of an active blog or wiki site is that my site visitors (i.e. you) leave a data trail. This data helps me understand how folks are conducting research, and if I am intrigued, I can re-run their queries and/or links. As my mind is wired in its own peculiar manner, this process allows me to learn from my visitors ... even those who never comment or contact me.” This transparency is one of the big benefits of enterprise 2.0.

In this case he was preparing a presentation on data mining and explored the term “domain engineering” in his internal search. Rich clicked “upon the first user name profile link listed in my company's social search results (runs in tandem with Google). The end result was a tag and link to Educypedia.” He said that this site was an excellent online encyclopedia that focuses on offering valuable links to other content on the web. Now he is adding Educypedia to the Manuals Section of his firms Engineering Learning Wiki. The tools provided Rich with a way to discover connections but it also took his desire to explore and share knowledge to make the system work.

There is much more on the blog and I encourage you to explore it. Rich also uses his blog to raise awareness for good causes outside work. He supports a small mountain town (JiaYou) in southern China near the Vietnamese border with his Run for China's Children that has built a new school.

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Rich is a client and has written a bit about his experience with Connectbeam on his blog.

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The tools provided Rich with a way to discover connections but it also took his desire to explore and share knowledge to make the system work.

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As my mind is wired in its own peculiar manner, this process allows me to learn from my visitors ... even those who never comment or contact me.” This transparency is one of the big benefits of enterprise 2.0.

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As my mind is wired in its own peculiar manner, this process allows me to learn from my visitors ... even those who never comment or contact me.” This transparency is one of the big benefits of enterprise 2.0.

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As my mind is wired in its own peculiar manner, this process allows me to learn from my visitors ... even those who never comment or contact me.” This transparency is one of the big benefits of enterprise 2.0.