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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.

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Nov 2
Nov 2 KM Chicago: CoP's at NSLS on Nov 8th

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community, events

The November 8th meeting of KM Chicago will be on "Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System."

Nov 1
Nov 1 Sharpreader revisted

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technology

I'm looking at SharpReader again. Luke Hutteman released a new version (0.9.6.0) this summer, and I am using it again this week. Here are some thoughts about what works well and what doesn't.

Nov 1
Nov 1 Learning processes and something management

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knowledge management

George at elearnspace is "starting to view effective KM and information management processes as being primarily learning processes." Interesting thought.

Nov 1
Nov 1 Blogs and shared context

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community, culture

Nancy White asked for clarification of my comments about shared context in some types of online communities.

Nov 1
Nov 1 Jack needs ...

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random fun

Another do-this-instead-of-work meme for your pleasure. This time you ask Google what you need by doing a quoted search for "yourname needs".

Oct 31
Oct 31 The Goal in easy pieces

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theory of constraints

Clarke Ching has found a great Theory of Constraints resource. And it has some guidance on The Haystack Syndrome.

Oct 31
Oct 31 Hear me at Innovation Challenge

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Oct 27
Oct 27 Knowledge Jolt has 1000 entries

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self

If all goes well, this will be my 1000th post to Knowledge Jolt with Jack since I started in May 2003. Thanks to all my readers -- and thanks to all the people out there I read and who inspire me to think and participate.

Oct 26
Oct 26 How to facilitate

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self

Terrence Seamon has some interesting thoughts on faciliation skills. Facilitation is a big challenge of the TOC Application Expert training.

Oct 26
Oct 26 KM and OD work together

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knowledge management

Knowledge management and organizational development can work together to grow an organization.

Oct 25
Oct 25 KM Market Map from Accsys

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cloc, knowledge management

Accsys Corporation has created a KM Market Map. This provides one perspective on KM. There are many.

Oct 25
Oct 25 Home for groups

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community, personal effectiveness

Kris Olson at Wiki That suggests that "What's Missing Is a 'Home' for Groups" in response to Clive Thompson's life hacking article. I suspect wiki's aren't quite enough, and I don't know where we will end up.

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.

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