Brian Nielsen spoke on "Knowledge Management in the University: Emerging Technologies and Trends at Northwestern" this evening to a very small crowd of KMPro regulars. Nielsen has been at Northwestern for 20+ years, spending the first part of his career in the libraries (Ph.D from UNC). He is now working with...

My home computer meltdown over the last week seems to have stopped. Stop reading here, if you don't care about technology. The source of the meltdown was our attempt to use the multiple users "feature" of Windows XP to allow different setups for my wife and me. Primarily, I wanted to...

From the announcement (paraphrased): Brian Nielsen will speak about "Knowledge Management in the University: Emerging Technologies and Trends at Northwestern" at the December 9th KMPro Chicago chapter meeting. He will also provide an overview of a number of projects in the works at Northwestern. He will show some software projects in...

Judith Meskill points us to an article that mentions some new technology for knowledge workers: knowledge management barriers... The following article is really about getting spammed on a continual basis, finally flipping your proverbial 'bit' and sending an email to the offending spammer threatening them with bodily harm and getting arrested...

If you are trying to contact me via email, there is something seriously amiss with my mail server. It seems to be bouncing mail to the senders, and it is not letting me send mail out. I have other mail servers, so this isn't the end of the world. Hopefully, my...

In case you are wondering, simply creating a policy to enforce behavior of your people won't work. The Computerworld "Security Manager's Journal" this week has a piece on discovering that people aren't following policy. After some hunting and discussion with a number of people, he decides to do a better job...

Allan Bonner talks about some of the history behind knowledge management and the difficulty we have in separating new technology from what might be more interesting in Locating the Human Element: In Search of Knowledge Management We are all striving to manage knowledge in such a way as to benefit workers,...

People have changed the world ever since they figured out how to bash on things with sharpened rocks. This book covers the evolution of our tools over the eons, from the simple tools of our ancient ancestors to the sophistication of our scientific technique today. The bulk of the book is a fascinating tour of surprising revelations and connections between technological, political and sociological changes.