Smart Tea Project is an expanded electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) system.
Smart Tea Project is an expanded electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) system.
James Robertson has posted another of his CM Briefings, this time on "The real cost of email in organisations."
CNet has an interview with John McCarthy, who is credited with coining the term Artificial Intelligence: "Getting machines to think like us" with Jonathan Skillings.
comments
Information (knowledge?) is the currency of business today, so making it available and making available the tools needed to manipulate that information is a critical task. Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts about IT blocking this need.
CEO's for Cities have published results of their recent survey on what young knowledge workers look for in cities.
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.