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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 8
Nov 8 Search or Find or Re-Find or Use

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personal effectiveness

Christina Pikas reports on the personal information management session at last week's ASIST conference. The comments about search / finding / re-finding are particularly interesting.

Nov 7
Nov 7 KM comments in today's feeds

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knowledge management

Here are some entertaining comments about knowledge management from today's feeds from Euan Semple and David Weinberger.

Nov 4
Nov 4 Jay Cross and George Siemens discussion

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knowledge management

An excellent Jay Cross and George Siemens audio discussion at Ed Tech Talk was published yesterday (3 Nov 2005). The topics included connectivism, informal learning, objectivity vs. subjectivity, corporate and higher education.

Nov 4
Nov 4 Spillane lecture on the (Missed) Management of Instruction

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cloc, culture, event report

Jim Spillane gave a talk on "School Reform American Style: The (Missed) Management of Instruction," which focused on K-12 education and the design of the organization that provides education. I heard some interesting things about organizational design that extends beyond schoolrooms.

Nov 4
Nov 4 Tony Byrne interviewed by Louis Rosenfeld

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technology

Digital Web Magazine has a great interview published this week with Tony Byrne (by Louis Rosenfeld) on CMS and beyond.

Nov 3
Nov 3 Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference on 21-Nov-2005

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events

The 2005 version of the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference will be on 21 November 2005 at McDonald's Hamburger University. Think about attending, if you are in the area.

Nov 3
Nov 3 Why multitask - instant gratification

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personal effectiveness

Dale Emery does a nice job of highlighting the assumptions around why we multi-task. And then he shows that those assumptions are misguided.

Nov 2
Nov 2 Myths of collaboration

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technology, knowledge management

Conventional wisdom is a good guideline, but be sure it makes sense in your circumstances. Inspired by Andy Moore's piece in KMWorld's October supplement on Best Practices in Collaborative Knowledge Sharing.

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.

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