judith meskill's knowledge notes: weblogs & km in the news... Guardian Unlimited :: Why blogs could be bad for business In this Guardian article Neil McIntosh points out that while companies might not be rushing out to embrace weblogging as a corporate interface to their customers that they would be well...

Blogger Con: The Rule of Links The Rule of Links is that you link when it's appropriate to do so. Linking is an art. It's a choice. You don't link from every word or even every noun, or from the subject of every sentence. But when a reader reasonably would want...

Excited Utterances: Why Knowledge Management Isn't Enough In Why Knowledge Management Isn't Enough, Stephen Mayson, consultant and Director for the Centre for Law Firm Management at Nottingham Law School, distinguishes "knowledge" ("recorded know-how")$(Oi.(Be., "recorded bits of paper on which deals and advice have been recorded"$(Ofr(Bom "know-how" in law firms: "Real know-how...

David Skyrme gave a list of common "myths" or mainstream beliefs about knowledge management in the May 2003 I3 Update. While this is a familiar list, it is good to read about them again. I just list the titles, you can read the details within. Knowledge Flows: Mainstream or Myths? Knowledge...

After 75 issues, David Skyrme and Debra Amidon have decided to stop publishing his informative I3 Update / Entovation International News. David closes with thoughts about his own KM odyssey, Debra closes with her own review of the history with Entovation, and they print a set of 75 knowledge nuggets. Some...

More writing against multitasking. Have a look at the commentary too, people attempt to clarify the concepts of what "good multitasking" might be. There is a difference between doing several things at once (walking and chewing gum) and switching between several activities. In the first, attention is not fully devoted to...

Input claims that the U.S. government is going to be spending more money on KM, primarily associated with Homeland Defense. This CIO article hints at the bigger question: All the technology in the world won't fix the differences between the agencies that all share similar information, each with a different view...