I have this "friend" who is really into steam trains. Does anyone know of a good resource for short videos online?
KMWorld Magazine has a nice overview of electronic lab notebooks in the June 2006 issue from David Raths, "Scientists take a closer look at ELNs." Nice to see this in KMWorld.
Eclectic Bill Brantley has written a series of articles on "Signs of the emerging knowledge economy" based on his reading of a number of books recently.
Last month I made a request to my readers to point me at interesting websites via the del.icio.us for:jackvinson structure. The winner is Zesmerelda, who pointed me to InnoCentive.
"The Winners of the 9th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study have been announced by Teleos. Toyota is the overall Global MAKE Winner for the second year in a row."
George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.
An interesting find from Dana Dolan on discussing productivity and whether collaboration projects require a leap of faith. I focus on the productity end of the question.
I use my writing both to formalize what I've been thinking as well as to get those thoughts into the larger world and see how they come back to me. Nancy White does the same thing.
Is there a connection between blogging and communities? I gave a presentation on this topic recently, and this is what I had to say.
The cappuccino conquests is a research program about the spread of Italian coffee, particularly espresso drinks, in the last 50 years.
Cognitive Daily asks, "How come my stats class wasn't this exciting?" This one has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it and need some laughs.
One of the longest-lived topics in knowledge management is expertise location, from the early days of electronic yellow pages to the fun of today. What follows are my thoughts and some synthesis from recent articles on the topic.
In case you have been wondering what the video-sharing service, YouTube, is about, this should give you the idea.
Kent Greenes writes "Learning fast to stay relevant in a flat world." It's a nice, brief description of the Lessons Learned process as practiced by the Army and as described in Learning to Fly. I also like the link Kent makes to the importance of learning and reflection.
Do policies ever get in the way of improving a system? David Anderson writes about this in Superstition and Boiling Frogs.
The classic problem of knowledge management is that most knowledge is tacit / implicit, but KM Systems want us to get things written out and "into the system." But getting things into the open has value in itself.
Eric Tsui asked me to pass this research opportunity along. If you are in the region - or want to be - have a look at this opportunity to advance your education in KM with an Industrial and Systems Engineering perspective.
The New Scientist Breaking News provides this one: "Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded." The research shows that caffeeine makes people more likely to change their mind when presented with contrary arguments.
"Change" is difficult (for people being told to change) because they have no idea what the change means for them and their work. Give people a clear target and a reason for reaching it, and you will be amazed at the changes that simply happen in order to align to that target.
Rich McCue provides an interesting paper, "Research in a Digital World - or - Personal Knowledge Management for Researchers." This could almost be summarized as "pay attention to your toolbox."