"Effective Online Forum Usage" by Steve Pavlina. Along with listing the benefits and negative effects of excessive forum usage, he provides a list of suggestions for overcoming the negative effects while still enjoying the benefits.
Denham Grey and Paul Hartzog and I thinking about conversation and extending the social network.
Business Process Trends has published a white paper by Russ Records on "The Fusion of Process and Knowledge Management." The article is focused primarily on installing IT systems that do process management and knowledge management, but it is nice to see this good overview of the combined disciplines.
In "Data chief climbs the executive title tower," Chicago Tribune staff reporter Jon Van discusses data mining the importance of data to companies. I see the importance of the strategic view.
In an email conversation with Joe Potts, inspired by a comment on my Freakonomics review, the idea that information assymetry and knowledge management might be on opposite sides of the fence came up. My thoughts on this follow.
A client sent an article about knowledge management in call centers from Call Center Magazine, "Find the Needle. Organize the Haystack."
Jeff Oxenford runs into the same trouble that anyone involved in knowledge management runs into: What is knowledge? (and what is knowledge management).
It looks like BlogWalk Seattle was a lot of fun. I would have loved to be around as the attached poster was created.
"Know how: Managing knowledge for competitive advantage" by Terry Ernest-Jones is an interesting survey and discussion of where knowledge management is headed from the perspective of senior leaders in western European businesses.
Cutting Through points to a great paper on "Making virtual teams work." Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
Gordon Müller-Seitz contacted me and asked that I both take this survey and let you all know about it. The survey is focused on corporate blogging (within the company), but most questions are focused on blogging and what you gain from it.
More random fun for you - playing with the list of popular songs from your youth. If you aren't doing anything over Labor Day, that is.
Places to Intervene in a Systemm, a 1997 article by Donella Meadows has been reprinted in a software developer magazine. Meadows was an important player in the systems thinking world. She founded the Sustainability Institute, and she seems to have been at least peripherally involved with theory of constraints.
KM Chicago's next meeting will be a presentation from Jason Marty of Baker & McKenzie on knowledge management in the legal industry and at Baker & McKenzie specifically.
In case you missed the important news , U of Scranton Prof. Joe A. Vinson (no relation), says coffee "has more antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet."
Project managers should be responsible for all the white space between well-defined activities in a project plan, says Frank Patrick. The hand-offs are where fumbles and missteps are most likely to happen.
Has anyone come up with a tagging tool for personal use? I'd love, for example, to be able to quickly retrieve all my photos with my wife in them, regardless of date or location.
George Siemens talks about changes in the world of media in "Centering Agents." The beauty of the new publishing paradigm is that I can choose what and when I read new information.
Johanna Rothman is reflecting on coaching in "When to Speak and When to Be Quiet." This is a big challenge for me: I love to provide the "answer" when a topic arises and I think I know something.
Shawn Callahan at Anecdote mentions that "Chip Goodyear says $8.5B profit partly due to communities of practice efforts."