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Jan 25 BlogJet 2.0 released

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Jan 24
Jan 24 QOTD: Trust

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Jan 24
Jan 24 Excited Utterances, hidden but not

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Jan 24
Jan 24 iPhone trademarks

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random fun

Jan 23
Jan 23 Tell me who you are, please

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Jan 23
Jan 23 Forget the Blackberry, get a Watermelon

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Jan 23
Jan 23 Out with the old, in with the new

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Jan 22
Jan 22 Sin, thy name is efficiency

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Jan 19
Jan 19 Mind mapping in five minutes

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Jan 19
Jan 19 A librarian's perspective on knowledge management

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Jan 19
Jan 19 It's not just what or who you know!

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culture

Joy Godesiabois at Centrality has posted a link to an interesting study of what characteristics of teams and the people in them make for successful results. The answer is "it depends."

Jan 19
Jan 19 I am Smalltalk?

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random fun

What programming language are you? I am Smalltalk. This is yet another quiz running around the network. Not nearly as entertaining as "which superhero are you?"

Jan 18
Jan 18 A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge

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knowledge management

Shawn Callahan has discovered "A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge" via a pamphlet from Demos on "The Received Wisdom: Opening up expert advice."

Jan 18
Jan 18 Charitable reading

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community

I love the concept of charitable reading posted by Meredith Farkas. Assume the best in what you read online, not the worst.

Jan 18
Jan 18 Web 2.0: A Community in Denial

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community, technology

Christopher Koch at CIO (Magazine) Blogs has a very strong opinion about the claim that web 2.0 automatically creates "community."

Jan 17
Jan 17 Talking on TOC this Monday

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cloc, events, theory of constraints

I am talking about Theory of Constraints Monday (22 January) evening through my association with Northwestern's Center for Learning and Organizational Change . This will be an introduction to the concept.

Jan 17
Jan 17 Killer apps in knowledge management

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technology, knowledge management

In a recent SIKM Leaders discussion, Bruce Karney of KM Experts talked about the idea of the killer app. I wonder what is the KM killer app?

Jan 16
Jan 16 KM is neither hard nor easy

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culture, knowledge management

Really. KM is only "hard" if the change from what is happening yesterday to what should be happening tomorrow is significant to the people expected to make the change.

Jan 9
Jan 9 Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management at KM Chicago

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technology, event report, knowledge management

The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.

Jan 9
Jan 9 Three, no Four, ways to deal with KM

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knowledge management

Lucas McDonnell provides three tips (plus a bonus) to help with knowledge management. And he counters my recent piece on KM being "hard."

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