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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

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May 22
May 22 Trust as a growing structure

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culture, knowledge management

If I had just read a little more in my aggregator before posting that last item on trust , I would have come across Luke Naismith's article in which he describes trust as an alliterative A-Fram house.

May 21
May 21 Another equation: Trust

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knowledge management

Anol Bhattacharya of SoulSoup is thinking about Brand, but I found his title intriguing, "Brand Gap : Trust = Reliability + Delight."

May 21
May 21 I'm a STAR at AOK

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events, self, knowledge management

Starting today, I am sitting in the STAR Series seat at the Association of Knowledge Work. Topic: KM in Academia.

May 18
May 18 The dying art of information literacy

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personal effectiveness

Shawn Callahan is bummed that his masters-level students are using sources (Google and Wikipedia) without evaluating their reliability. Information literacy is an important, but dying, art form.

May 18
May 18 It's been four years

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self

Hard to believe that I have been at this for four years now.

May 16
May 16 Upcoming: Panel on HPT, KM and OD

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events, self, knowledge management

On June 13th, I'll be one of three people participating on a panel discussion on the relationship between HPT, KM and OD. The session is being run by CISPI.

May 15
May 15 Compiling academic KM programs

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lazyweb, knowledge management

I am compiling a list of academic programs that have knowledge management courses or programs.

May 15
May 15 QOTD: Lessons Learned

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knowledge management

"Lessons are learned only when behavior changes, not when the example is dropped into a database."

May 14
May 14 Killing your personal growth

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personal effectiveness

I came across Henrik Edberg's discussion of 9 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Personal Growth last week. Interesting thoughts.

May 12
May 12 Communities and Practice

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cloc, community

Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?

May 10
May 10 Blogs in relation to communities

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blogs, community

Andy Roberts links to a discussion by Miguel Cornejo Castro. Essentially, the question is whether blogs build or tear apart other online communities (listservs, online forums, etc.). The answer: it depends.

May 10
May 10 I'm wiser than I've ever been

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knowledge management

Paolina Martin provides an interesting history lesson in "wisdom," making a connection to emotional intelligence that I hadn't considered previously.

May 8
May 8 Avast ye scurvy hierarchies

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culture

I've been following Sigurd Rinde's thingamy for the last few months, and now he comes up with "organisational hierarchies in practice."

May 8
May 8 20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed by Simplehelp

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technology

Simplehelp has a handy "20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed" with 3/4 being install-on your machine applications and the other 1/4 being web-based apps.

May 7
May 7 Communication is not an addiction - Keith Hampton

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culture, technology

"You can't be additcted to communication," says Keith Hampton. Yes, but you can be addicted to the tools.

May 6
May 6 Models of behavioral change

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culture, theory of constraints

Luke Niasmith has a nice pair of images, one from Robinson, and another that reverses the positive effect. They depect 7 Steps to Behavior Change.

May 6
May 6 Surprise announcement: there is a dark side of blogging

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blogs

A friend, who is considering a blog, pointed me to this rather negative article "The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings From Leading Bloggers." Nothing terribly shocking from my perspective.

May 3
May 3 Ghost blogging is unethical

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blogs, culture

Ghost blogging - the process of writing a blog in someone else's place - is just not right.

May 3
May 3 PersonalBrain 4 Demo

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technology, personal effectiveness

The folks at TheBrain showed off their latest work with PersonalBrain on a webinar today.

May 3
May 3 Tag, You're It podcast from SXSW

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tags

The Tag, You're It panel discussion from SXSW Interactive has some good information on tagging. There are four panelists, including Thomas Vander Wal.

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