After writing about how important it is to understand the business problem first, here is a story from CIO Magazine where the project started with the technology.
I'm moving out of the Corante network. I have learned a lot from participating in the network, and I hope I have been able to contribute my share to the readership.
People have expressed plenty of paranoia about social network analysis techniques that exploit existing corporate data stores. So, it shouldn't be surprising to see reports of companies that are selling their tools to snoop on their employees.
There's a time for every out-of-scope project task, and the time is later.
The WiseCamel has an entertaining "5 Step Guide to Exacting Revenge" that might worry anyone who is trying to control their online reputation.
The father of biological taxonomy turns 300 today, if he were still alive.
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.
Anol Bhattacharya of SoulSoup is thinking about Brand, but I found his title intriguing, "Brand Gap : Trust = Reliability + Delight."
Starting today, I am sitting in the STAR Series seat at the Association of Knowledge Work. Topic: KM in Academia.
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.
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.
I am compiling a list of academic programs that have knowledge management courses or programs.
"Lessons are learned only when behavior changes, not when the example is dropped into a database."
I came across Henrik Edberg's discussion of 9 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Personal Growth last week. Interesting thoughts.
Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?
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.
Paolina Martin provides an interesting history lesson in "wisdom," making a connection to emotional intelligence that I hadn't considered previously.
I've been following Sigurd Rinde's thingamy for the last few months, and now he comes up with "organisational hierarchies in practice."
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.