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.
Here are some entertaining comments about knowledge management from today's feeds from Euan Semple and David Weinberger.
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.
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.
Digital Web Magazine has a great interview published this week with Tony Byrne (by Louis Rosenfeld) on CMS and beyond.
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.
Dale Emery does a nice job of highlighting the assumptions around why we multi-task. And then he shows that those assumptions are misguided.
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.
The November 8th meeting of KM Chicago will be on "Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System."
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.
George at elearnspace is "starting to view effective KM and information management processes as being primarily learning processes." Interesting thought.
Nancy White asked for clarification of my comments about shared context in some types of online communities.
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".
Clarke Ching has found a great Theory of Constraints resource. And it has some guidance on The Haystack Syndrome.
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.
Terrence Seamon has some interesting thoughts on faciliation skills. Facilitation is a big challenge of the TOC Application Expert training.
Knowledge management and organizational development can work together to grow an organization.
Accsys Corporation has created a KM Market Map. This provides one perspective on KM. There are many.
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.