TechCrunch had a guest author, Frank Gruber, write about the The State of Online Feed Readers. Being TechCrunch, the review was primarily focused on features and technology of these aggregators
Jim McGee tells us that "Deliverables [are] the fundamental secret to improving knowledge work." I see a connection to Theory of Constraints in Jim's thinking.
Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot, maker of the Roomba and the new Scooba. Greiner clearly has a vision for the future of robots-as-appliances.
My friend John Barrett has moved to North Carolina and started another KM group, the KM Network of North Carolina. If you live in the area and want a wider connection to the KM community, check it out.
Bill Brantley points to "The World is Round" by Laurence Prusak in the April 2006 HBR. Bill provides a nice review for people who don't get HBR delivered to their doorstep.
Tim Thomas contacted me in regards cultivating communities of practice for people in the natural sciences, biologists in particular.
Frank Patrick reminds us that there will be some fun numbers coming up. Wait until the 4th of May if you live outside the United States.
Kyle McFarlin makes a fun analogy in "Knowledge and Yardsale Exercise Equipment" with the picture that people collect information because they can, like the exercise equipment you see at yardsales.
Okay, so I'm sitting here with my mother, who is attempting to learn how to deal with GMail, and I am flabbergasted at how unintuitive some of the interface is with it.
Another break in our regular programming for the arrival of Hogarth Gordon Vinson on March 27th. Time to introduce v1 to his baby brother.
Dinesh Tantri makes an interesting link between the Freakonomics' discussion of incentives and that of incentives for sharing in a recent article.
I've just learned that my blog is being studied in group assignment on knowledge taxonomies in a class at McGill. One of the students just contacted me with some questions about my process. This is my response.
For anyone who feels they have the time, Caroline De Brun in the KM group at the U.K. National Health Service is building a KM glossary and is asking for help. Here are some stabs at additions.
Kevin Rutherford has taken me literally and has some ideas for defining and quantifying personal goals. He has an idea (untested) for a mechanism to define and quantify personal goals.
Sharon Richardson at Joining Dots had a piece on "Investing in knowledge" a few weeks ago. Sharon provides a suggestion for how to think about how an organization values knowledge and where current projects fall with respect to people, information and data.
Martin Dugage has a relevant piece for me today: "Collaboration tools for communities of practice." An email discussion group I belong to vanished and is rebuilding itself in two directions: either as email discussion or a message board.
I stumbled upon Beth Shankle's piece on Google's reputation system. I'm not so interested in Google or disembodied reputation systems, but I have to mention the surprise I had when Quicken started asking me to rate the people in my checkbook register.
Malcolm Ryder has another great essay on KM, this time "How Not To K.O. KM." I can't help but appreciate the way Malcolm synthesizes what has to happen in the world around the worker for "knowledge management" to be successful.
Dale H. Emery defines Information as "Data that reduces uncertainty." I particularly like the link to uncertainty because most people don't like dealing with uncertainty in making decisions.
Martin Dugage writes about a blogging executive, who has built social/trust capital via a weekly forum he has written for three years.