Ton Zijlstra writes his viewpoint that relationships are more valuable than information exchange. And that social software helps build the relationships, overlaid with the transitory exchange of information.
MeshForum 2006 will be 7-9 May in Chicago. Once again, I am involved in organizing the event. Please let me know if you have any questions.
For those who read my standard feed, Eric Tsui on KM, PKM and P2P from a month ago has received some attention in an information management graduate class. Michael Goul at ASU has asked the students that are willing to take a crack at reading the article and posting their comments.
Clarke Ching links us to an Interview with Eli Goldratt from Supply Chain Digest.
Day 2 of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and it closed out with more energy than yesterday. There were three sessions today: Is KM morphing into Practice Support, KM and Professional Development, and a brainstorming session on Making KM client-facing.
George Siemens makes an interesting comment in Wikis at Work. "The baggage of existing thinking is a great inhibitor to blogs, podcasts, wikis, and social bookmarks."
Bruce Hoppe writes What P G Teaches and talks about how A.G. Lafley, the CEO of Proctor Gamble, operates his ship. He talks about collaboration - collaboration where people challenge one another on the validity of their ideas and plans.
The first day of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and I found myself fairly comfortable, even though I'm not a lawyer. The KM topics discussed today looked at deeper integration of KM (and information management) into the firm; life cycle management of information central to the business of the firm; the cultural concerns with implementing KM-like changes; and what KM can do as the firm looks outside (the panel on which I participated).
My wife has written up her effort to create a 120-song playlist to celebrate her pending birthday. Along with providing the list of all the songs, she gives her criteria for selecting artists, even justifying those cheesy songs from the 70's.
Bill Brantley has a nice writeup of a "TOC Analysis of Technology" based on the Goldratt audio book, Beyond the Goal. The key idea is that technology is beneficial if and only if it diminishes a limitation.
Nancy White links to an interesting comment about how managing your personal online reputation will be a core life skill. Imagine, teaching this alongside basic hygiene in our schools.
Nancy White has pointed the way to a Johari Window tool that let's one see how others view them. I've started my own window by selecting a number of characteristics, and now I invite you to select from that same set of characteristics and see whether I project to you what I think of myself.
At the non-billable hour, guest-writer Ron Baker says "Attorneys Aren't Knowledge Workers," based on comments of his colleague, Dan Morris. This is a great set of thoughts about knowledge work and follows very much on the original idea of knowledge workers by Peter Drucker: companies need knowledge workers more than they need the company.
Frank Patrick points to an insightful poster: The Project Breathalyzer. It's a page of nine items that act as a sanity check for whether you should be driving a project (or project management office) or not.
Clarke Ching has found an interesting (and long) report that uses Theory of Constraints to study the UK Network Rail's capacity.
Rant on: Does anyone actually like voice-recognition based "interactive" voice response (IVR) systems?
I have been interviewed by the Knowledge Management Center, a Chinese KM group, based in Beijing. The connection was made through one of my students at Northwestern.
The British Psychological Society has a blog, kept by Dr. Christian Jarrett. A friend mentioned the recent "Why do we still believe in group brainstorming?" that describes the "illusion of group productivity."
Danny Ayers found an entertaining quote on delegation by Dan Connolly, "formalizing knowledge allows us to delegate tasks to the machine." This is one of those hidden fears about knowledge managent, but it need not be.
Okay, I can't help but link to this one. He references _The Princess Bride_ for goodness sake! David Buchan tells us that "You can do more than you believe."