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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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Jan 4
Jan 4 photobloggr

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self, tags, random fun

The RSS Blog points to a new way to peruse your Flickr images with photoblogger. It is very much geared toward finding pictures, rather than browsing in the standard Flickr mode.

Jan 4
Jan 4 KM mistakes and tyranny of the tangible

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knowledge management

Another article on KM mistakes / myths, this time from Michael Gilbert at Nonprofit Onlines News: "Seven Knowledge Management Mistakes." He also introduces his idea of The Tyranny of the Tangible.

Jan 4
Jan 4 Schedule creates the wrong focus

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project management

Jack Dahlgren suggests that we should treat "The Schedule as a Symptom" at his Project blog. I like the description of the schedule as a hoped-for picture of how the project will go.

Jan 3
Jan 3 Wikis for knowledge acquisition

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knowledge management

Christian Wagner discusses the problems with knowledge acquisition and suggests that wikis in combination with communities might be a solution for knowledge acquisition where more formal processes have failed.

Jan 3
Jan 3 Good and Bad Procrastination

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personal effectiveness

A little entertainment from Paul Graham: "Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work."

Jan 3
Jan 3 Outlook as KM platform?

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knowledge management

Joy London points to "Lisa Kellar's MS Outlook: KM Friend or Foe?" The answer to the question posed by the article isn't yes or no, it really does depend on what you want as a result.

Jan 3
Jan 3 Where is the constraint?

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theory of constraints

David Anderson's "Drumming in the Dark" talks about what happens when the constraint isn't obvious. The answer is deceptively simple, and TOC provides guidance.

Jan 3
Jan 3 Dell and TOC

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continuous improvement, theory of constraints

The December 2005 Business 2.0 has an article about Dell's newest manufacturing facility that may reflect theory of constraints principles: "Dude, You're Getting a Dell--Every Five Seconds."

Dec 30
Dec 30 Too Transparent?

jackvinson
culture, knowledge management

Dennis Reyes at ITtoolbox's writes "That Won't Work Here...It's too Transparent!" which suggests change management needs to be a critical aspect of business changes.

Dec 30
Dec 30 Knowledge Loss in Organizations

jackvinson
cloc, social network analysis, knowledge management

SNA expert Robert Cross writes about "Knowledge Loss in Organizations." I like the emphasis on using SNA as a diagnostic tool, particularly as he talks about the differing impacts of Central Connectors, Brokers, and Peripheral Players.

Dec 28
Dec 28 FREE GEEK Chicago

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community

I met David Eads of FREE GEEK Chicago (and several other place). If you are in or near Chicago and have use technology or your own time to donate, look them up.

Dec 27
Dec 27 My google number is 79,000

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self, random fun

A quoted name search nets me 79,000 hits on Google. An ego search on my name nets about seven times that many.

Dec 23
Dec 23 Tapping into Corporate Knowledge with Mind Maps

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technology, knowledge management

The December 2005 Mindjet Insider Newsletter focuses on the topic of "Tapping into Corporate Knowledge." In all their examples, the use of the mind map goes beyond the single-user to the collective.

Dec 21
Dec 21 Light blogging and some tech questions

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lazyweb, self, technology

I'll be paying attention to other things (family) for the next couple of weeks, and have programmed a couple future blog entries to make it seem like something is happening here. I will start the break with a bunch of questions that have bugged me and I can't quite figure out where and how to ask about Outlook and other tech.

Dec 21
Dec 21 Learning and PKM

jackvinson
personal effectiveness, knowledge management

Jeremy Hiebert found an interesting article about learning and personal "stuff" management. "Can personal digital knowledge artefacts' management and social networks enhance learning?" by Riina Vuorikari.

Dec 20
Dec 20 KM in Disaster Management at KM Chicago on Jan 10th

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events

The January 10th, 2006 meeting of KM Chicago will have Dr. Michael McDonald, speaking on "KM in Disaster Management."

Dec 20
Dec 20 IQ vs. self discipline

jackvinson
personal effectiveness

Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily writes High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought, in which he discusses research that looked at IQ and "self discipline" as predictors for academic performance. The surprise? Self-discipline was more highly correlated than was IQ.

Dec 19
Dec 19 Watson is now free

jackvinson
technology

Watson by Intellext is now available in a free "personal" version. Watson conducts a search for you in the background, based on what you are currently writing or researching.

Dec 18
Dec 18 Tinyurl Personality Test

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random fun

Why not spend your extra time in traditionally slow December, figuring out your personality via TinyURL. Just add your initials, and those of your friends and family, to the end of tinyurl.com.

Dec 18
Dec 18 Academic home pages are not interesting

jackvinson
culture, self

Mattias Melcher at x28's blog points to an academic piece by L. Thoms & M. Thelwall, "Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self" at First Monday. The main finding of the research seemed far too obvious for me. I don't think academic websites are supposed to be terribly interesting either.

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