Friday's BloggingWorks workshop focused on how businesses can and are using blogs and blog tools as their primary engine for delivering content to both the public and to internal groups. To me, the biggest aspect of the workshop was the idea that blog tools are a means to an end. As...
iWire: iMax: AWSOME The Guardian's Online supplement today has a rather nice article about office e-mail; nice not least because of a lengthy quote from iSociety's own Max Nathan. Its all sensible stuff rejecting that man from Phones4U who decided to ban office e-mail as a poorly disgused PR stunt (surely...
NuGenesis organized a seminar to demonstrate how their product can interoperate with other companies' products to form a solution for electronic R&D.
The Satir Change Model, as explained by Dale H. Emery, is change in response to a foreign element that creates chaos while I figure out how to deal with the change. Ideally, the end state leaves me in a higher perfroming state than where I started.
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...
As a chemical engineer by training and someone who likes to cook, it is good to know that scientists like to ply their skills in the kitchen.
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...
Today's Chicago Tribune had articles about the managers for both the Cubs and the White Sox. Since the Cubs might be getting into the playoffs, the article about Dusty Baker talked about how his style has taken them this far. It mentioned the concept of Emotional Intelligence a number of times...
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...
Who is going to BloggingWorks next week? They are limiting registration to give it an intimate feel. Should be interesting....
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...