February 2007 Archives

Phil Wainewright has some thoughts around "Solving the 1:10:100% problem" of community participation: don't worry about it and focus on the people creating useful content.

Kyle McFarlin has published his Top 10 Mapping Shortcut Tips (MindManager & ResultsManager), and Jason Dorko followed-up with some more of his favorites. And here are a couple of mine.

Emily Chang jumped into an interesting discussion of one piece of personal knowledge management with My Data Stream.

Nimmy gives us a nice quote that appears to be a German proverb, "Who begins too much accomplishes little."

Lotus (IBM) is advertising how their products will help companies do knowledge management. ... Advertising on YouTube.

Sarah Elkins has posted her review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. The book looks like it needs to be on my list.

I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.

Hal Macomber always has interesting things to say about the world project management. In Misunderstanding Project Planning as Anticipation he is thinking about the essense of planning.

David Anderson has a great comment on respect and courtesy. Courtesy is the baseline behavior. But without respect, it is difficult to get things done in any collaborative manner.

Ron Friedmann saw an interesting product demo from LexisNexis, which spawned some thoughts about the next life for search technology. This sounds like what Glenn Fannick of Factiva discussed at a KM Chicago event in December 2005.

I came across "How to measure effect of communities at the macro level?" by Mukund Mohan at the same time that I've been thinking about the reasons organizations look into communities. These ideas fit together nicely.

A new HBS working paper by Deishin Lee and Eric Van den Steen, "Managing Know-How," looks at companies that keep best practices and model employee use of the best practices and company decisions about recording new practices with an economic model.

Helgi Páll Einarsson writes, "The internet vs. inner peace" in which he provides suggestions on overcoming the haze of over-stimulation.

This month's KM Chicago meeting hosted Tim Keelan of StoryQuest. He talked about his company and the work he does around providing audio of first-person stories. He focused on the concepts of peer-based learning, using and finding stories, and mobile learning.

The BBC's Radio 4 In Our Time podcast covers Karl Popper this week. From a knowledge management perspective, his ideas are used frequently in discussions about the nature of knowledge and how a company could "do knowledge management."

Kim Sbarcea believes that KM can support companies in their drive to do better for all stakeholders in creating sustainable companies.

Nimmy at "Aa..ha! [Thinking Inside the Blog!]" has an entertaining Analogy for KM.

Lori Grant, one of the Smart Lemmings, links up "12 Tips to Learn How to Be Curious" via an article by Darren Rowse on Problogger, "How to be Curious."

I am going into my third round of teaching a knowledge management class in Northwestern's Masters of Learning and Organizational Change program. I'm looking for suggestions and guidance on this topic: what works well, where do I need to tread carefully.

Dave Snowden lays out a fairly reasonable discussion around why blogs can be considered knowledge management (collaboration) tools.

Lisa Haneberg tells us that we are all hassle-making machines. And that we should stop. And she does it with humor.

Interesting article in The Economist print edition on 11 Jan 2007, What the World Bank knows (... And what it only thinks it knows).

Kevin Kohls has a great story about business focusing on the wrong thing to drive improvement. Goldratt calls these "choopchicks."

Hal Macomber has an interesting thought about Understanding Project Constraints. Is it more than just people, time and money?

A number of people have referenced the speech from Mark Chandler, Cisco General Counsel on State of Technology in the Law. I'm particuilarly interested in his views on "how is technology driving change in knowledge-based industries?"

Tired of my suggestions on "personal effectiveness?" Why not try the advice of Helgi Páll Einarsson at Everyday Wonderland? "5 Ideas for Stressful Living"

Both HBR and Bain have come out with lists for 2007. Several bloggers have mentioned these reports, and a few KM bloggers have made a KM connection. HBR lists breakthrough ideas. Bain lists management tools.

Alex Barnett points to an interesting study that suggests left-handed people have more left brain-right brain connections than the general population. Guess who is left handed!

Marjolein Hoekstra has built a RSS-enabled search engine in conjunction with Todd And's Power 150 marketing blogs

James Dellow at ChiefTech points to a great video that explains Web2.0.

Another article in the February Communications of the ACM gives us a study of participation in online communities. The results seem obvious, but I haven't seen people talk about them in this way.

The just-arrived copy of Communications of the ACM has an article on the development of e-mail spam and methods that are used to fight it. It's interesting from the perspective of the various machine learning techniques they describe - and how spammers respond to each tactic.