June 2005 Archives
I really need to come up with more non-home-office destinations, so I can cycle to them. Even worse, I'll be traveling during the Tour de France, and I am worried that I won't have Outdoor Life Network at the hotel.
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That's my name listed as the chair for the session Barry describes here: Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - optimising efficencies in knowledge transfer.
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In Gerry McGovern's current New Thinking newsletter/blog, he has an interesting argument that there is "No such thing as knowledge worker." Some of his thinking coincides with personal knowledge management as well.
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Bruce MacEwen has some interesting thoughts about corporate expertise locators and an idea that companies might actually know more than they think about their experts.
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Typical CCPM Project Management Implementation. I'm mostly linking this because it is a nice example of retrospectively walking through a CCPM implementation, complete with fever charts.
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"Designing sticky knowledge networks" by Bush and Tiwana looks at the importance of reputation, relationship capital and personalization on the continued use of corporate knowledge networks.
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I attended WIRED Magazine's NextFest 2005 yesterday at Chicago's Navy Pier. It was an interesting event with many displays of the (near) future of technology.
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In my challenge to read anything this year, my Father's Day gift of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was so good I could barely put it down. For someone who enjoys numbers and math, I couldn't help wanting more: data, questions answered, and toys to do the analyses myself.
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Lilia Efimova points to a paper about the "Dynamics of Email Triage" and discusses some interesting ideas about personal effectiveness in relation to how people learn to use their tools.
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Chris Lundquist writes "Quick Collaboration and New News" that discusses Jybe for free online screen sharing (but not editing). Combine that with Skype and you have web meetings for the cost of your internet connection.
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Fortune has an interview with Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie: "How to Escape E-Mail Hell" with some interesting tidbits.
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Rojo is the first aggregator I've seen that incorporates the concept of tagging into the feed reading experience. This might be enough to get me to jump away from my current aggregator.
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Brian Kennemer has written "KM and PM: The Redheaded Step Children of all Organizations?" with some great thoughts about the psychology of software and knowledge & project management.
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Jay Budzik spoke at the June KM Chicago meeting about Intellext's product Watson. Watson sits in the background and accesses search engines on your behalf as you work, presenting you with context-sensitive results from both internal and external searches.
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I attended an interesting seminar on Business Intelligence recently with Howard Spielman as an excellent keynote speaker. Data visualization has been around for a while. Companies should develop graphicacy standards.
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The Association of Knowledgework (AOK) hosts Alex Bennet for the monthly STAR Series. Her topic for the two weeks revolves around the idea of Turning Passion into Action.
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Julia Haberman ran a survey on the business value of blogging last year. She has now finished her research and has provided the linked report and results for your perusal. Congratulations, Julia.
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Duane at the information auditor has posted some thoughts on a paper he presented at the Special Library Association conference, 'Mark Twain and Knowledge Management'. He built up a discussion about KM from question of "what did Mark Twain (and steamboat captains) need to do with respect to knowledge?"
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A free Learning Styles Inventory test shows me with a balanced across many dimensions.
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Several people asked for the templates for my web feeds, particularly the one that provides comments interspersed with the entries. Here it is.
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Suw Charman has released the first "Dark Blogs" case study in the competitive intelligence team in a European Pharmaceutical Group. It is great to see this case study of blogging within a large company.
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I had the opportunity to observe Eli Goldratt going through a Viable Vision offer with a client. It is amazing to watch and listen to him go through the process with clients.
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Ben Hammersley suggests that the first blogger was Richard Steele, an 18th century writer, who wrote frequently and drank lots of coffee. I love the allusion to coffee creating fueling the writing of essayists and bloggers.
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Joy London reports on Baker McKenzie's KM Report Card that their Global Director of KM sees KM as not having made its mark in the law firm. It missed the balance between information, people and environment.
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Thought Simpsons' fans would enjoy something I discovered in Akron today: Smithers Scientific Services. Nothing to do with sycophantic assistants, but fun nonetheless.
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I have just implemented TagCloud on my main blog page - on the right side below the fold. The nice thing is that it appears to parse titles and text as well as the categories from the feeds, which means this is more of a "topic cloud" than a formal "tag cloud."
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Fred On Something suggests that one could "Use blogs to manage tacit knowledge in enterprises?" He does a nice job of laying out the reasoning as to how blogs could be used to connect people and their experiences.
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The June 14th meeting of KM Chicago will feature a presentation by Jay Budzik, PhD, founder and CTO of Intellext, Inc. The presentation will include a demo of their context-sensitive search tool, Watson.
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Gil Friend finds an interesting quote from NYT's Thomas Friedman's Friday column in "A race to the top" and talks about outsourcing to people who will do more for less.
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Joho the Blog: "KM re-explained." The K stands for blogs. The M stands for tags. Put 'em together and you get "KM."
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Culture impacts everything about an organization. Dennis Kennedy has some thoughts about courageous organizations, and I follow that with more about cultural impact on knoweldge flows.
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In looking for additional information on "low-tech KM," I came across the Ohio Heartland Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (OHIPSI) event summary, "What about a KM system for you?"
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For those that read Knowledge Jolt with Jack via an aggregator, I've moved the comment-embedded feed to a separate entity in order to provide a standard feed without comments for people who prefer it.
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