January 2007 Archives
The February meeting of KM Chicago will feature Tim Keelan of StoryQuest. I am interested to hear where he has gone with doing storytelling and narrative in organizations.
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Michael Sampson is talking about "Unresolved Issues with Email: Confusion in Conversation Flow." Beyond dumping e-mail altogether, how can people make the good use of the technology in the setting of a conversation?
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Chuck Frey has posted another survey for mind mapping software . Time time it is ten questions on the whys and wherefores of using the software: does it help; what works best; what could be better.
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Shawn Callahan has an post on the importance of leadership defining senses of direction, discovery and destiny for change programs. I suggest that maybe change shouldn't be the focus.
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Here's an entertaining exchange on the Cranky Geeks podcast. Dvorak: "Does Purdue require incoming students to have computers?" McCartney: "No, and we don't require pens and paper either." Plus a laugh at Vista.
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Johnnie Moore writes about "Buttons pressed?" and reminds me of one of my favorite principles of life.
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The SpaceComm 2007 conference was just this week, and one of the keynotes talked about the importance of KM as a "weapon," as reported in Military & Aerospace Electronics news.
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I met for coffee with a networking friend yesterday, and we bantered around a lot of ideas for both of our businesses. What stuck with me was the question of why is knowledge management so interesting.
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I've been playtesting this next version of BlogJet for the past few months. It is a nice extension to what has been a very useful WYSIWYG blogging tool. I am particularly thrilled with its ability to hook directly into the tagging features of my blogging engine, Movable Type.
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Jack Ricchiuto says, "People who don't share trust are less intelligent together; people who share trust are smarter together. "
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I was disappointed when Joy London moved her Excited Utterances blog behind a paywall, since she always had good a knowledge management in the law perspective. She's been plugged in a London Times article.
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Just for smiles, I checked the US PTO for trademark entries on "iphone." As of today, there are 17 trademarks with the term in the title.
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If you are a blogger and you are not anonymous, please tell people who you are!
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Merlin Mann at 43 folders has a series of interviews with David Allen of Getting Things Done. In one, David Allen makes the hilarious observation that Blackberry adicts are going to need to move to Watermelon devices soon.
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Thingamy founder Sigurd Rinde has an interesting perspective on business and what to do about how we've always done things in his "thingamy manifesto."
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David Snowden struck a chord. "Efficiency" is a central element in the development of Theory of Constraints. Local efficiency does not guarantee global efficiency.
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Chuck Frey points to this great video of Tony Buzan talking about Mind Mapping. It's a five-minute clip that discusses the importance of some key concepts behind mind mapping.
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In discovering Ohio State University's Knoweldge Bank program, I found an article on the library director's perspective on KM in the context of the library and their knowledge bank. Librarians as knowledge managers.
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Joy Godesiabois at Centrality has posted a link to an interesting study of what characteristics of teams and the people in them make for successful results. The answer is "it depends."
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What programming language are you? I am Smalltalk. This is yet another quiz running around the network. Not nearly as entertaining as "which superhero are you?"
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Shawn Callahan has discovered "A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge" via a pamphlet from Demos on "The Received Wisdom: Opening up expert advice."
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I love the concept of charitable reading posted by Meredith Farkas. Assume the best in what you read online, not the worst.
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Christopher Koch at CIO (Magazine) Blogs has a very strong opinion about the claim that web 2.0 automatically creates "community."
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I am talking about Theory of Constraints Monday (22 January) evening through my association with Northwestern's Center for Learning and Organizational Change . This will be an introduction to the concept.
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In a recent SIKM Leaders discussion, Bruce Karney of KM Experts talked about the idea of the killer app. I wonder what is the KM killer app?
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Really. KM is only "hard" if the change from what is happening yesterday to what should be happening tomorrow is significant to the people expected to make the change.
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The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.
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Lucas McDonnell provides three tips (plus a bonus) to help with knowledge management. And he counters my recent piece on KM being "hard."
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Chuck Frey has posted an Exclusive interview with Tony Buzan, which reveals more about mind mapping than I knew.
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Jonathan Spira at Collaboration Loop provides a collective take on The Knowledge Worker's New Year's Resolutions.
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Josh Nankivel has started blogging and picked up on the perennially-favorite topic of multi-tasking. He talks about the theory of constraints connection, and he also makes connection to Covey's 4 quadrants.
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Teleos has released three more of their MAKE awards for 2006: Europe, Asia and India.
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What are the common notions about "lost knowledge?" It turns out the common notions aren't always correct, according to a study from Lori Rosenkopf at Wharton.
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A friend pointed me to an item from the Accenture press releases about a survey they've done, "Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless." Does this suggest a portal or something else?
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My wife contributed a segment to "A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science" to be published on 30 April 2007. Yipee!
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I've updated some of the background aspects of this blog to include the well-formed web's CommentAPI. And, since I couldn't find clear instructions, I provide them to you at no charge.
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David Gurteen posted a draft list of attributes of an effective knowledge worker. There are some interesting thoughts here, as well as comments from Jim McGee and others that round out the idea.
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Shannon's Random Mutterings falls to the topic of knowledge management in "Why Is Knowledge Management So Hard?" For Shannon, KM is about doing well as an individual. I would add that there is an important component that related to how the group of us work together
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What would you recommend for tips on dealing with the flood of digital information? That's the question from Michael Sampson in his "Seven Things" article. He provides six, and I try at a seventh.
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Liz Lawley points us to this moving story of a soldier who has left his son a journal / guidebook.
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Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2007 brings you joy and satisfaction in your lives!
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