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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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Jun 5
Jun 5 Layers of networks depend on context

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community, culture, social network analysis

There is a running discussion in the blogosphere on layers of a social networks and how trust or value is tied to each layer.

Jun 4
Jun 4 Innovation vs. Efficiency

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innovation, theory of constraints

Business Week has an article that talks about A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity at 3M. It's a classic problem: tighten down operations and innovation gets squelched.

Jun 2
Jun 2 Isolated online communities as ghettos

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community, culture

Not my usual reading, but C. Wess Daniels has been doing some thinking on community. "Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away."

Jun 1
Jun 1 flickrvision is fun

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technology, random fun

Okay, a bunch of technology bloggers have covered this, but flickrvision is the coolest thing I've seen for wasting time in quite a while.

May 30
May 30 Perspective on digital identity via danah boyd

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culture, other

In the June 2007 HBR, danah boyd was one of the respondents to their case commentary, We Googled You. I highlight boyd's perspective on her own digital identity, as it informs her response.

May 30
May 30 Knowledge Jolt one of the Mindjet recommended blogs

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self

It's tooting my own horn day. I neglected to mention that this blog has been included with two dozen blogs recommended by Mindjet for writing about mind mapping.

May 30
May 30 Site news: Now a contributor to Newstex

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self

I am now a member of the Newstex "content on demand" collection of blogs.

May 28
May 28 No really, business first

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business, technology

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.

May 29
May 29 Breaking free of the technology trap

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technology, theory of constraints, knowledge management

Art Murray's "Breaking free of the technology trap" in the June 2007 KMWorld talks about changing the mindset of implementing technology in business.

May 29
May 29 Experts are the ones that talk

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knowledge management

The regular column in KMWorld from David Weinberger this month is "Experts who don't play the Wikipedia game."

May 26
May 26 Moving on from Corante

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kjolt, self

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.

May 24
May 24 Anti-social network analysis

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business, social network analysis

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.

May 23
May 23 QOTD: Procrastination

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project management

There's a time for every out-of-scope project task, and the time is later.

May 23
May 23 Anti-reputation management

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random fun

The WiseCamel has an entertaining "5 Step Guide to Exacting Revenge" that might worry anyone who is trying to control their online reputation.

May 23
May 23 Happy birthday Linnaeus

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knowledge management

The father of biological taxonomy turns 300 today, if he were still alive.

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.

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