Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.
Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?
BusinessWeek's Oct 3rd cover story, "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." is an interesting article on the history of long hours and how the problem is spreading outside of the U.S. It also covers a number of possible solutions.
"What is your 'ideal' feature set for an aggregator (feed reader, RSS reader)?" It needs to stay out of my way, so that I can spend as much or little time reading as I want. Here is a laundry list of things I'd like to see.
Someone is claiming to be the only WYSIWYG blog editor and buying AdWords to prove it.
This isn't really an All Request Day, like Dennis or Sherry do, but a commenter has asked for my impressions of the TOC training I took this summer.
Thanks to far too much time on my hands, I have now hand-coded a tag cloud for this blog.
CNA Insurance presented their internal knowledge management solution at the October 2005 KM Chicago meeting.
Jeremy Aarons of Dubbings and Diversions asks a familiar question, Who isn't a knowledge worker? How important is this distinction, I wonder?
Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.
I know I am a little late to the game, but I just finished the very enjoyable The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. I particularly liked the no-nonsense tone of the book. And I see some connection to theory of constraints, once again.
Bruce Hoppe finds an interesting set of discussions that suggest "conflict is good" in his "Conflict: something we can all agree on." I wonder if there is a connection with constraints in TOC.
Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
CNA Insurance will present their Performance Support Tool at the October 11th meeting of KM Chicago, located at the CNA Plaza and via webinar.
"They Just Don't Get It! (Changing resistance into understanding)" by Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin is a quick and entertaining read. It is written as a how-to manual, not unlike the top-seller "Who Moved My Cheese?"
Ton Zijlstra has been thinking about his information strategy and focuses on his tools this time. I particularly like that his graphics that show his process.
"Mapping Knowledge Domains Colloquium 2003" is an interesting person-topic map for a conference. I would find this sort of map to be incredibly helpful coming into a conference or other meeting of people who I don't quite know yet.
Rashmi Sinha put together "A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)" that I found to be illuminating. The short version: tagging is a simpler process because it lets us annotate something with all the concepts that it fires in our brains. Categorization forces us to pick one of those concepts.
"Why making the decisions the right way is more important than making the right decisions" is an interesting piece from the Ivey Business Journal.