I was at a talk recently in which the speaker mentioned that humans process a given idea for 6-7 seconds before moving onto the next idea.
"Beating the Boomer Brain Drain Blues" is a good overview of the knowledge retention problem facing many companies. It provides some suggestions on how to think about the problem, and there are many examples.
During the CPSquare conference on Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice , someone referenced Barn Raising as a means for the initial build-out on a wiki. What a nice way to think about building a community-needed structure.
The next generation of aggregators are going to have a lot of interesting features, whether they are the ones I want or not. In reading John Tropea's "Authority in your RSS readers," I realized that the aggregator needs to extend beyond the box of a single tool.
I attended an demonstration of Tidebreak's TeamSpot collaboration software yesterday as part of my adjunct appointment at Northwestern. It's an interesting product for co-located group work.
The McKinsey Quarterly has Ten trends to watch in 2006 by Ian Davis and Elizabeth Stephenson, which are really trends to watch over the next decade. Several of these ring for me.
Fellow Corante Web Hub contributor, Matthew Hurst wants Consumer Facing Text Mining Opportunities. He wants text mining for non-commercial customers that actually provides some value to the user.
I stumbled upon Eric Tsui's 2002 technology survey, "Technologies for Personal and Peer to Peer Knowledge Management," when writing my earlier article on PIM. I do not recall having read Eric Tsui in the past, but many of his ideas about knowledge management and the emphasis on personal vs. corporation are strongly connected to how I have thought of KM.
I was in a conversation earlier today, where we talked about the familiar rating tools that you find in Amazon and frequently on internal website ("rate this article"). There are some big differences in rating services on a public website, like Amazon, and internal websites.
I came across "The knowledge management puzzle: Human and social factors in knowledge management" from the 2001 IBM Systems Journal. The authors use the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle to motivate their discussion, suggesting that IT is only one of many pieces to the puzzle for knowledge management. And they also acknowledge that there are pieces they may not know that create still other pictures when the pieces come together. They also provide a great set of references for the curious.
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."