Luke Naismith writes about "Infoluenza." This idea goes beyond strict information overload and suggests a group psychology that prevents us, as a society, from stopping and thinking about what we are doing and why.
Ron Friedmann has a piece on (legal) knowledge management at his blog and at LLRX, "KM - The Right Question?" I like his "better" question, thus the title of this post.
Booz Allen Hamilton's strategy+business has a piece entitled The Megacommunity Manifesto. Megacommunities bring together government, business and NGO on problems of common interest, even if they don't all see thing from the same perspective.
I appear to be 75% like Spider-Man. He was one of my favorites growing up. It probably helped to have three or four Spider-Man comics every month.
I've seen a number of articles recently on a variety of systems that let people ask questions and have them answered by "experts." Those experts could be biochemists on a email list somewhere, or technology enthusiasts on the million-and-one online bulletin boards / newsgroups, or it could be the average Joe who happens to know just the right thing in order to answer a question.
I just came across the Evolution of Business Knowledge project. The project is a collaboration between many schools in the UK with projects that all have to with the combination of knowledge and process. There are a number of sub-projects and papers at their website to peruse.
Emily Turrettini at SmartMobs references a piece by Jeff Zaslow in the WSJ, "How You Handle Your Email Inbox Says a Lot About You."
A press release: The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is ready to play a leading role in two new bodies set up by the United Nations – the UN Knowledge Sharing Task Force and the UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS).
A friend is moving to Los Angeles and is considering going back to school for a masters-level degree related to knowledge management. Can you provide any suggestions as to which schools have KM-like programs.
Knowledge retention is an important issue in business these days. This month's K Street Directions tells us about a story from NPR on Raiders of the Lost Tapes, where the knowledge is tapes of the Apollo moon landing.
Dick Richards of Come Gather Round gives an example of why he suggests "Don't Sheild Them From Distress: An Example" and closes with the great comment that "truth alone will not initiate change."
A KnowNow press release says, "KnowNow has released three new solutions designed to instantly connect people with critical information." It sounds like an aggregator and blogging tool packaged together.
The Work Foundation has a new report that suggests the "Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes." They are in the beginnings of a multi-year project to clearly define the knowledge economy.
Patrick Lambe points to "Negative Knowledge, Expertise and Organisations" by Jaana Parviainen and Marja Eriksson of University of Tampere, Finland.
Maron Demissie, one of the students in the MS LOC program at Northwestern, has just completed her Master's Capstone entitled, "The Quest for Increased Knowledge Sharing Within Design Firms."
Bruce LaDuke suggests that IT KM are Boat Anchors because they don't have a connection to the true performance of the organization. He suggests it is the realm of HR performance management that provides much better connection to improvement. But what if people are performing the wrong things?
LinkedIn has been adding features, and a new one has popped up that seems like it might be worthwhile: You can now Break Connections yourself, rather than sending email to customer service.