FCW.com has an article on Army lessons learned that focuses on their Army Knowledge Management program, which appears to be successful. The program itself seems to be heavily techno-centric.
I came across a faculty opening at Kent State in their Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM) program. They are primarily looking for someone who does information architecture and / or usability work, rather than people invested in the Knowledge Management side.
Patrick Lambe has What is knowledge sharing (and this from February) and Why do we share knowledge, based on a recent discussion. And this leads to Euan Semple and Sharon Richardson's discussion of one element of knowledge sharing: humor and personality.
Steve Barth's last "Personal Toolkit" column, "Mapping the mind's eye," in the May 2006 KM World discusses two items in my toolbox, MindManager and PersonalBrain.
The May 2006 issue of ACM Queue has some fun with the idea of artificial Artificial Intelligence, "Will artificial AI create a new class of intelligent applications?" The article talks about the design of Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Hai Zhuge has an article on "Discovery of Knowledge Flow in Science" in the May 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM. Zhuge focuses on the scientific citation network that is a familiar topic in academic circles, but the concept applies anywhere you can find citations, such as in blogs.
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.
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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.