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Aug 7
Aug 7 My top 10 tools

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Aug 6
Aug 6 Dealing with microprojects

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Aug 6
Aug 6 Two on training: myths and trust

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Aug 6
Aug 6 Reading by priority vs topic

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self, technology, personal effectiveness

Matt Thommes is thinking about "Grouping RSS feeds by priority and frequency." This is an idea I've been playing with for a while, but I've never gotten right because of exactly the problem that Matt discusses in his post.

Aug 3
Aug 3 AIIM requesting Best Practices for Email Management

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lazyweb, personal effectiveness

Betsy Fanning of the AIIM Standards Watch is requesting Best Practices for Email Management through a new community they've set up. They are looking for suggestions as to what the group should discuss. I've got a few thoughts, of course.

Aug 3
Aug 3 Yeah, that will work

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technology, random fun

Here's something that isn't going to happen: shut down the internet because it is keeping people from communicating. At least Elton John thinks so.

Aug 1
Aug 1 The Facebook productivity suite

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technology, personal effectiveness, random fun

"Time out (please?)" from Brett Miller and some reflection on Facebook has me thinking that the best Facebook application is my bicycle. Or the back porch and a Moleskin.

Aug 1
Aug 1 BlogHer reaction for Sunday

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event report

The Sunday sessions at BlogHer rocked! This was were all "unconference" style via Open Space Technology. As a result of this session, I've set up CoffeeNeeded.com and made even more connections with wonderful BlogHers.

Jul 31
Jul 31 BlogHer: My blog as my front porch

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blogs, community, event report

People who have been following my blog for a while have probably seen me reference Brandon Wirtz' thought that Blogs are just a front porch. I like this particular analogy enough that I tossed it out as a topic at the BlogHer unconference.

Jul 31
Jul 31 BlogHer: Kiss of Death to online communities

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community, event report

The second unconference session was initiated by Aliza Sherman as a result of the communities panel from Friday, where there was not enough time to talk about how and why communities die / break-up / fade away.

Jul 30
Jul 30 The elusive Me Collector

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technology, personal effectiveness, knowledge management

Amy Gahran says, "I want one place for all my content: Pipe dream?" She mentioned this at BlogHer as well.

Jul 30
Jul 30 BlogHer: Does your readership change what you say

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blogs, event report

Does knowing who reads your blog change what you say and how you say it? Do you censor what you say because you don't want your readership (or potential readers) to learn something or to be offende...

Jul 29
Jul 29 BlogHer reaction for Saturday

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blogs, event report

My thoughts and comments for the BlogHer sessions on Saturday, July 28th.

Jul 27
Jul 27 BlogHer reaction for Friday

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blogs, community, event report

Some of my reaction to the first day of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago.

Jul 27
Jul 27 AideRSS as reading option

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technology

Several people in my reading list have mentioned AideRSS in the past few days. The service just launched on Tuesday, so I thought I'd have a look.

Jul 27
Jul 27 MindManager 7 after some playing

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technology

I got my upgrade to MindManager 7, and the biggest difference is that the UI now incorporates the Microsoft "ribbon" concept, making the menu and toolbars look very different. Not happy.

Jul 26
Jul 26 BlogHer this weekend

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events, self

I'll be at BlogHer '07 this weekend, and I know there are several people that I want to meet face-to-face. And I am sure there are more that will be a pleasure to meet this weekend.

Jul 25
Jul 25 Clients remixable content

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cloc, kjolt, knowledge management

Bill Brantley describes How education/training has changed in the last three years for him. People want to be able to remix their content, no matter what the source.

Jul 25
Jul 25 Organising Knowledge -- Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness

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book review, knowledge management

Patrick Lambe sent me a copy of his new book, "Organising Knowledge -- Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness," after I mentioned that I would love a chance to dive into the book. Given the title, how could I not be curious.

Jul 23
Jul 23 Tour de France 2007: Vinokourov tests positive; Astana withdraws from Tour

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other

Tour de France 2007: Vinokourov tests positive; Astana withdraws from Tour. Too bad.

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