November 2005 Archives
Dave Pollard has been thinking about personal knowledge management for a while. "Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) -- an Update" is a nice summary of where his thinking has come from and where he stands today.
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An article in CACM highlights how an expert locator is used at a software firm, highlighting some expected and some surprising uses.
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Bill Brantly has been thinking about how KM, TOC and Strategy are all related. Now he is proposing a mash-up of all these in "Knowledge Management, Theory of Constraints, and Strategy."
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Bruce MacEwan found some interesting Drucker quotes in the pages of the Wall Street Journal's feature on the legacy of Drucker. At first glance Drucker and Viable Vision seem to be at odds.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick gives us a very nice discussion of what he does when teaching RSS (web feeds) to people.
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The WearIT@Work project has some beutifully SciFi goals for wearable computing. And they are doing something about it.
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I came upon an interesting blog-based discussion rather late, as I have been busy with Thanksgiving and other activities. But when I came upon it, I had a good chunk of the blog discussion right at my fingertips.
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Ross Mayfield kicked off a winding discussion with "The End of Process" in which he complains that "process" is over-used. Many others have contributed to the discussion, in case you haven't seen it.
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Corante launches a new topical aggregation service Tuesday, and this is one of the blogs to be aggregated. I'm participating in the Web Hub.
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Harold Jarche asks "Is metadata dead?" Not really, but it certainly could work better.
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The December 13th meeting for KM Chicago is all set with Glenn Fannick of Factiva speaking on Text Mining. We are also hosting a holiday party after the talk, so please let us know you are coming.
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A commenter on a previous entry asked for some background on why expert systems have "failed." I'm not exactly sure of his context, but there are two schools of thought here: they have or they haven't failed.
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Ingo Forstenlechner of ingoblog is now "A man with a PhD :-)" Congratulations!
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Olaf Brugman writes "Head and Heart: KM as an educational offer" in which he highlights a deeper conviction for his version of knowledge management.
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For all the Americans out there, I hope you are enjoying your extended weekend. And for all my other readers - thanks for reading.
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Dennis Kennedy has been republishing some of his interesting pieces. "To Tech or Not to Tech?" is a smart piece on making decisions about technology.
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I've set up FeedBlitz email subsciption for this blog.
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Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak and Don Cohen are publishing a collaborative blog titled The Babson Knowledge Blog. They started at the end of September 2005.
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The November 2005 issue of ACM Queue is their Social Computing issue with a main article from a team at IBM who are testing social bookmarking within the enterprise.
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The November 2005 issue of ACM Queue has a great interview with Ray Ozzie by Wendy Kellogg of IBM. The focus is collaboration and technology.
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Does what you are doing contribute to the mission of your organization? James Robertson suggests the test, "Does it make the planes fly."
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Denham Grey reached back into his archives and posted "5 most important KM issues" (from 2001), and then asks, "has anything really changed."
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Ask and ye shall receive. MindManager maps are searchable. And a long-silent blogger has popped up elsewhere.
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Analysis report, "INPUT Predicts Federal Knowledge Management Spending Will Reach $1.3 Billion by FY10."
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Starting next week, Denham Grey will be the final STAR of 2005 at the Association of Knowledgework. His topic will be "Knowledge Sharing and Social Software."
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"Blogging to raise awareness: the DrugScope experience." This straightforward report gives the details of how DrugScope went about implementing a blog, DrugData Update, to keep their visitors better informed.
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Shawn Callahan at Anecdote says "Knowledge mapping is sensemaking." A student in the Center for Learning and Organizational Change has asked two of us to put together a simple workshop on this topic, so it is convenient to see this topic arise.
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It's snowing in Chicago now. It seems just a week ago it was wonderfully warm.
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BlawgThink 2005 was a great event. Matt and Dennis combined an interesting set of talks on Friday with a full day of Open Space discussion on Saturday.
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Two small rants about how we use our web feeds. Please be sure your web feed is what you think it is. And let people know when you are moving.
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There were plenty of things to consider at BlawgThink, only some of them to do with technology. But, I've made a number of tweaks and explorations already.
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At BlawgThink there seemed to be at least two camps of people when talking about blogging and blogging in the legal profession: laser focus, or laissez-faire.
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Sharon Richardson at Joining Dots suggests Seven productivity tips "...that don't come packaged with the software." Good reading.
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In Gene Smith's interview at You're It! with Peter Morville, they discuss the topic of authority-by-citation in academia as opposed to in the public sphere of the web where it is authority-by-linking. "Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy interview"
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Denham Grey has long argued that knowledge is socially constructed. He's just posted an article, diving into his thinking, "Social knowledge," that hits close to the core for me.
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Jim McGee and I did "Collaboration, KM, and the power of the virtual first impression" at BlawgThink. This is my what-I-meant-to-say version.
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What happens when you can be anything or anyone you want to be? What happens when you can filter the behavioral queues that other people see?
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Christina Stoll and Debbie Baaske from the North Suburban Library System (NSLS) presented their efforts in knowledge management with a special focus on what they have done with communities of practice at the November KM Chicago meeting.
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My friend Stefan Lafloer is suggesting that we work on the knowledge management entry at Wikipedia together. Sounds like a good idea to me.
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This isn't a full report on knowledge management at Cervelo, but a reference from Cycle Sport on how they use some intelligence when working with professional cyclists.
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Bill Ives wonders "When is a blog, a blog?" based on a talk from Ethan Zuckerman at the Berkman lunch series. Is a blog more than just the technical description of "blog?"
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Christina Pikas reports on the personal information management session at last week's ASIST conference. The comments about search / finding / re-finding are particularly interesting.
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Here are some entertaining comments about knowledge management from today's feeds from Euan Semple and David Weinberger.
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An excellent Jay Cross and George Siemens audio discussion at Ed Tech Talk was published yesterday (3 Nov 2005). The topics included connectivism, informal learning, objectivity vs. subjectivity, corporate and higher education.
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Jim Spillane gave a talk on "School Reform American Style: The (Missed) Management of Instruction," which focused on K-12 education and the design of the organization that provides education. I heard some interesting things about organizational design that extends beyond schoolrooms.
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