Last week Euan Semple said that KM is hogwash. This is an ongong discussion in the KM community and the larger community of skeptics.
Dave Pollard and some friends have developed Seven Principles of Social Networking. Throughout the article, he suggests that because of these principles, social networking applications have been going about the problem from the wrong angle.
Dinesh Tantri of Organic KM found "KM survey results-Economist Intelligence Unit." Dinesh found this interesting for the use of the word "actionable." I find this interesting as an expert in knowledge management and after spending my first week in Goldratt School.
I have been enjoying using Lektora for reading web feeds for the last week or so, and have some more comments. As I've said, the metaphor they use is the idea of the newspaper. You pick up the paper every so often, and toss it the recycling when done.
US Airways have done a nice job with the reservation system, reducing the headache of selecting flights and checking fares.
At the Wired NextFest in Chicago several weeks ago, I had my face scanned at the Direct Dimensions / Hanson Robotics booth. Pretty cool picture.
Brian Livingston at IT Management has published the second of his three-part series on web feed aggregators, which compares Bloglines, My Yahoo and NewsGator Online. He picks NewsGator as the best of the three.
At KM Magazine, Judith Lamont writes that "Law firms reinvent KM." The article describes KM initiatives at a number of different approaches to doing knowledge management, most of which have technology as important components.
I've been using the aggregator Lektora exclusively for the last week or so. I find myself drawn to the different way Lektora sets up the reading experience.
Duane McCollum, the information auditor, stumbled upon two interesting references about information disasters and the cost of them in his "Great Information Disasters?" An additional information "disaster" in my mind is that people get lost in analyzing the data and lose sight of the goal.
Mart T found an interesting article about Belgium's Kafka red-tape cutting initiative. It's already saved $281 million. And it looks a little like KM.
I've decided to make the plunge and take Goldratt School's TOC Supply Chain Expert training course in preparation for participating on a viable vision project as an Application Expert. The course started today.
Arnie Zullow is a MLS student in the UIUC distance education program, and he interviewed me as part of his interest in knowledge management.
Brian Livingston has an upcoming set of articles on aggregators, starting with this week's overview of the current marketplace, RSS Readers: Narrowing Down Your Choices. I'll be looking for his forthcoming articles on web-based and desktop-based readers.
Brian continues thinking about aggregators, Aggregation Control Spectrum. He suggests a thought excercise, wondering how to combine classic aggregation with web feed search tools.
Grant Robinson has created Guess-the-google that lets you guess what single term was used to find a set of 20 pictures via a Google image search. Fun game.
Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology mentions some (legal) KM Trends that result from a recent presentation he did with Tania Daniels. I particularly like the comments about baking KM into the business.
My friend, Andy Boyd, is looking for an Intranet-based RSS Aggregator. Oh, lazyweb, what do you know?
Gil Friend quoted himself from a recent speech, "Change is made more difficult by deep and pervasive errors in thinking..." This mimics what Goldratt has been saying for over 20 years.