Steve Borche of Connecting the Dots has an idea for "smart aggregators." This is something I've been looking for as well for some of the same reasons, primarily information overload.
Steve Borche of Connecting the Dots has an idea for "smart aggregators." This is something I've been looking for as well for some of the same reasons, primarily information overload.
I've been "attending" the CPSquare Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice online conference for the last week or so, and it has resulted in a number of interesting conversations. It's also inspired some personal realization as well.
Lucas RodrÃguez Cervera points to Just Enough Process Management by Tammy Adams at the BPMInstitute website. Rather than perfections, she suggests just enough Clarity, Change, Measurement, and Control.
Well, if I can't find a fulltime gig somewhere, I can always become a bookstore employee, according to the "Are You a Librarian Test."
Bookstore Employee You...
I've been moderately successful in this consulting gig, however moderately isn't cutting the mustard when it comes to a feeling of stability with another child coming along.
What a nice combination of blogs and podcasting. Dan Oestreich is writing and reading at his blog, Oestreich Associates. He is posting his written word as audio files.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Intellext are making their search-in-the-background tool, Watson, available for free. I used it for a while last year, and I just tested it again as I wrote that long post on the collection of PIM articles in CACM.
Rather than making a list of my favorite KM blogs, which is always changing, why not make that list available to the public. And instead of a blogroll, why not put it somewhere everyone can use it. Viola, Blogdigger (and others).
Jeff Oxenford tells an entertaining quick story about Capturing Knowledge (attempting to) from his 7-year old daughter and her fun science project. Tears ensued, passion waned. Redemption at the end.
Don Cohen writes about "The Knowledge Technology Trap" at the Babson Knowledge blog: ""Knowledge management projects focused mainly on technology will fail."
Dana Dolan found an interesting quote from Richard Templeton of Texas Instruments, "the biggest thing you do to reward great business people and great technological people is to give them harder problems."
The latest Communications of the ACM has a great set of articles on Personal Information Management. I provide a rather detailed review of the collection, as the topic interests me greatly.
Sylvie Noel has a basic suggestion on How to get better information from an expert: "[I]f you want to understand your local expert, tell her how much you already know about the subject. That way, she can adjust her vocabulary to your needs."
Michael Schrage's "Making IT Work" editorial in the January 2006 CIO Magazine riffs off the results of the magazine's State of the CIO survey. "CIOs may think that backlogs are their biggest pain point. But the real cause of IT failure is mismanaged expectations."
Apparently Robert Fripp has been picked to create the sounds for the new operating system from Microsoft, Vista. Robert Scoble (or Charles Torre) has published a 25 minute video of the session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A little entertainment from Paul Graham: "Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work."