I'm doing my end-of-month statistics, and I see in my error log that something has been trying to connect to individual entries in my weblog with mark-up in the URL's. It looks like a robot. But why?
Dina Mehta has written a piece about what blogs have done for her in the past three years. I have to agree with a number of her sentiments, but most critically "My blog has become my social network."
The next KM Chicago meeting will be Tuesday, 9 August. The presenters are members of the Allstate Financial KM team, speaking on "48 Years of Paper Changing the Culture of the Allstate Financial."
The results are in, and I'm still about as geeky today as I was in January.
"A computer is just a tool. It's just a hammer. Let's get these tools to as many people as possible, let's teach them how to use it, give them an idea of what they can do with it, and then let 'em go. And that's really exciting." - Leo Laporte
Joy London at excited utterances points to an Interview: Former CKO at Kirkland & Ellis from a knowledge management class at George Mason University. It turns out the professor has posted all the interviews, including mine.
Jim McGee 's latest piece in Enterprise Systems is "Building Your Knowledge Workshop." Given Jim's ongoing analogy of knowledge work as craft work, it only makes sense to think about the craft person's workshop.
This is a wonderful rememberance from Chris Carmichael on just how bad things had gotten for Lance when he attempted to come back to the professional peloton in 1998.
I found Carol Kinsey "Goman's Five reasons people don't tell what they know" from June 2002. The short version is: power, insecurity, trust, fear, and "no one else does it."
The March/April 2002 issue of Ivey Business Journal had a piece by Nancy Dixon, "The Neglected Receiver of Knowledge Sharing." Dixon presents a helpful perspective to the concept of knowledge sharing, and one that I've heard in pieces previously. The discussion also makes it clearer why best practice databases have such a hard time of it in the KM community.
A review of Andrew Hargadon's "How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate." I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in the general topic of innovation as well as for Hargadon's insights on how people interact and even a few comments about knowledge management.
Jason has an interesting piece on "How the lack of constraints killed the quality of Star Wars." He says, "Constraints drive innovation and forces focus. They are to be embraced, not removed."
The Intranet Journal has an article from Paul Chin on "Dealing with Information Overload." He's got some interesting comments about the effect of having all this information available, primarily it looks like attention deficit disorder.
USA Today has an opinion piece from Matthew May on Lance Armstrong's final bid for the Tour de France's maillot jaune (yellow jersey). "Innovative Armstrong changes the way we compete."
Brian Livingston wraps up his series in IT Management on Picking The Best RSS Client with the entry on desktop-based aggregators. With this entry, he has discovered the same thing I've found.
An interesting paper by Sveiby et. al., "Knowledge Management and Growth in Finnish SME's," shows a positive correlation between KM and long-term sustainable growth of the companies.
Malcolm Ryder discusses the importance of collaboration and analytics for decision making in the operations environment: "Collaboration and Analytics: driving production with intelligence."
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.