Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.
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Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.
Kyle McFarlin has published his Top 10 Mapping Shortcut Tips (MindManager & ResultsManager), and Jason Dorko followed-up with some more of his favorites. And here are a couple of mine.
Ron Friedmann saw an interesting product demo from LexisNexis, which spawned some thoughts about the next life for search technology. This sounds like what Glenn Fannick of Factiva discussed at a KM Chicago event in December 2005.
Christopher Koch at CIO (Magazine) Blogs has a very strong opinion about the claim that web 2.0 automatically creates "community."
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?
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.
The conversation about aggregator features gets a little confusing, if you aren't paying attention to the problem you are trying to solve. Here are some Feed Overload problems one might encounter and want to address with a better tool.
I have recently received an iPod Nano. I have been collecting digital content for many years, so my library is many times larger than what fits on the device itself. How in the world do I use iTunes successfully under this situation?
Michael Sampson has a great summary of the ongoing discussion about whether email can be considered a collaboration tool. The thing I want to highlight is realization that most of the problems associated with email have nothing to do with email itself.
Dinesh Tantri has an interesting thought about "Enterprise 2.0 Tools Don't Address The Politics Of KM." Enterprises are made of people who are used to the command-and-control days of knowledge management as document management: "corporate KM."
As usual, Denham Grey has produced a to-the-point piece on Social Search. He tells there is no good definition of Social Search, beyond the general idea that it is (web) search refined by a person's social circle. And I am not convinced they are the right direction for search.
I have been wondering if there are mapping tools that let non-technical folks plot bunches of stuff on a map and either save it or ship it to someone. Of course there are. Matthew Hurst points to Ask City, and I also played with Batch Geocode. Many others exist.
David Stubbs, Matt Moss, and Paul Hogarth-Blood have created LawMaps.org to publish the mind maps they've built and used as study guides for U.K. and E.U. law exams.
People who have upgraded to Firefox 2 have raved about the Session Restore feature that restores all open tabs and even data entered into forms when Firefox is restarted. This is not the same as SessionSaver. However, you can make Firefox 2 always restore the previous session, even when you closed Firefox on purpose.
I always enjoy the quip that most users aren't interested in search , they want to find . Ramana Rao goes further, Beyond Search is REAP.
Anecdote is using an interesting methodology, called Most Significant Change, that uses storytelling to help measure the normally-implicit value of projects and change initiatives. They are enhancing the MSC process with some tools.
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.
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.