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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Oct 24
Oct 24 Updates here - watch those boxes

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self

I'm moving some things around here at Knowledge Jolt with Jack. I'm slowly going through my archives and adding additional keywords and excerpts to old articles.

Oct 24
Oct 24 Make MindManager searchable

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lazyweb, technology

Has anyone figured out how to make MindManager mind maps searchable?

Oct 24
Oct 24 A new ONA - ontology network analysis

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community, technology

efios points to "Identifying Communities of Pracice" from the Shadbolt research group. They have created Ontocopi to parses an ontology to decipher the knowledge networks represented therein.

Oct 24
Oct 24 Introspection as key for corporate KM

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culture, knowledge management

A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.

Oct 23
Oct 23 How Much Is My Blog Worth

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random fun

My blog appears to be worth $63,793.02 today. The Business Opportunities Weblog lets you do the calculation.

Oct 23
Oct 23 From Data to Knowledge and Beyond

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knowledge management

Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Oct 22
Oct 22 To classify is human

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tags, knowledge management

Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.

Oct 22
Oct 22 Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management

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book review, knowledge management

A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.

Oct 21
Oct 21 Importance of shared context

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blogs, cloc, community, culture

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.

Oct 19
Oct 19 Shifting interests, forgetting

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blogs, community

Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?

Oct 17
Oct 17 Work overload at BusinessWeek

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personal effectiveness, social network analysis

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.

Oct 18
Oct 18 Ideal feed reader features

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technology

"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.

Oct 18
Oct 18 Lies laid bare, fast

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random fun

Someone is claiming to be the only WYSIWYG blog editor and buying AdWords to prove it.

Oct 17
Oct 17 Coffee as a deductable?

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random fun

Maybe knowledge workers can write off coffee?

Oct 14
Oct 14 Request Day: How did that TOC Training go?

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self, theory of constraints

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.

Oct 13
Oct 13 My very own tag cloud

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self, tags

Thanks to far too much time on my hands, I have now hand-coded a tag cloud for this blog.

Oct 12
Oct 12 CNA at KM Chicago

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events, knowledge management

CNA Insurance presented their internal knowledge management solution at the October 2005 KM Chicago meeting.

Oct 12
Oct 12 Who isn't a knowledge worker?

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knowledge management

Jeremy Aarons of Dubbings and Diversions asks a familiar question, Who isn't a knowledge worker? How important is this distinction, I wonder?

Oct 11
Oct 11 On the Menu at BlawgThink

jackvinson
events, self, knowledge management

Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.

Oct 10
Oct 10 Innovator's Solution

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innovation, book review, theory of constraints

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.

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