James Robertson's latest CM Briefing includes "Search should work like magic." I like that the suggestions he provides in terms of where IT should focus their energies.
Malcolm Ryder has a recent piece that looks at Change that provides some steps to consider on the way to creating change within the organization. As I read his article, I saw some parallels to the Theory of Constraints' five focusing steps.
David Weinberger has a nice piece on Fact-based ethics for bloggers , and I think it actually adds a bit to the ideas about blogs as a vehicle for conversations.
A commonly-discussed problem in knowledge management implementations is the issue of knowledge hoarding, generally associated with the idea of "knowledge is power." Kaye Vivian sees this as a myth.
Jeffrey Phillips picked up on the WSJ article "Companies Struggle To Pass On Knowledge That Workers Acquire" and goes onto talk about some of the barriers for traditional KM, focusing on critical mass.
Does spell-checking software need a warning label? The answer is, "yes." I've known this for a long time, but then I've also made the errors this article talks about. Based on their survey of undergraduate and graduate students, people put much more confidence in grammar- and spell-checking software than they should.
"Sharing Knowledge by Design - Building Intellectual Capital in a Virtual World" by Nancy Settle-Murphy and Stan Garfield. The authors provide a set of ten ideas on how to build knowledge-sharing into the fabric of teams and into the organization as a whole. The focus is on growing the capacity for knowledge sharing in the organization, rather than on any specific KM technologies.
Oren Harari responds to an Economist article with "Knowledge Workers (That's Us!) Need a New Organization." Oren is particularly interested in the juxtaposition between what knowledge workers need and how companies approach it.
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide's Neurolearning Blog give us some insight into blogging in "Blogs as Our Brains: Can We Escape Chaos?" They touch on a couple aspects of blogging and cognition that make things chaotic: tagging, learning preferences, and even organizational skills.
Malcolm Ryder turned up an entertaining picture of the home computer of 2004 from a 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine in The History of the Future. They have a few things wrong.
I attended the Web2.0 and Communities distributed conference from CPSquare during the past four weeks. It was very instructive to me, as a person fairly well versed in the technology end of the spectrum. There are some lessons about online conferences to be learned as well.
Kaye Vivian has written up a list of concerns that managers have voiced over many conversations in her organization: "Managers Look at the Risks of KM." It's a great (or scary) list of barriers and concerns that need to be addressed for any big change project.
The next KM Chicago meeting will be 14 Feburary, at it's normal time from 5-7 pm. The topic is "KM in the Asia-Pacific region."
Malcolm Ryder has some fun with "Business Intelligence versus Business Knowledge: Who Cares?" I particularly like his thoughts about business intelligence, or more accurately, the process of seeing patterns in the constant wave of data, information and knowledge.
John Tropea has posted some thoughts on more advanced mechanisms to get recommendations, based on what you read and write. My best recommendation engine is the people I am already reading, can recommendation engines take advantage of that?
Erik Hollnagel does Cognitive Systems Engineering research in the area of human performance and accident analysis / prevention. He has a brief write-up on The principle of Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (ETTO) that I found interesting. The bottom line: it is the system that has to be diagnosed to understand why an efficient "short cut" failed when it normally worked just fine.
Catastrovision is that wonderful effect when you get so wrapped up in your own world that it seems like everything is about to end. [Reposted]
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John P. A. Ioannidis describes a statistical test for the likelihood of research being false, first without researcher bias and then a second test that includes bias. The result: it doesn't look good.
I'll be on a panel at the Knowledge Management for the Modern Law Firm conference that the Ark Group is organizing in New York City, 22-23 February 2006.
Tris Hussey found a nice list of tips to improve your blogging from Make You Go Hmm. These cover a lot of ground, and they don't make sense for all bloggers, but they give a positive way to think about blogging. I like the focus on passion in a few of these.