My name is George Kondrach, aka “The Knowledge Economist”. More about me later.

The KnowledgeEconomist blog will represent my views, along with those of other trusted expert practitioners, of how organizations can improve the economics of producing various information products from knowledge.

Some examples of improvements I’ve specified or led in the field of Knowledge Economics include:

• how media companies may create and deploy useful categorization & cataloging methods,
• how museums may improve metadata to reduce cost & workload as they restore, catalog, manage, & present their collections,
• how technical writers may improve their craft to produce better product or task support materials,
• how production communities of authors, editors, abstractors, indexers, & technologists may re-organize to improve their collaboration to commercially publish books, journals, media products, and their future products … better.
• and more ….

While unique problems and disparate cases all, they are subsumed within design patterns that can be called knowledge ecologies, and economic systems that can be called knowledge economies. And this blog is dedicated to sustaining conversations aimed at making knowledge ecologies and knowledge economies better.

So then, The KnowledgeEconomist blog is for:

• Persons who possess wisdom or knowledge, which is needed or wanted by other people, but in more useful forms.
• Producers of knowledge products, who are paid to produce as effectively & economically as possible.
• Consumers of knowledge products who want better products to buy and use.
• Executives and operational managers of organizations where producers and/or consumers come together around knowledge products.
• Proven practitioners (like myself) who want to contribute some of their wisdom to effect improvement.

As for me, George Kondrach, I have been characterized by other people across a wide gamut, from praise to contempt. The KnowledgeEconomist blog will give you the opportunity to form your own opinion firsthand. Visit frequently.