March 2007 Archives
"Can limitations and restrictions be liberating?" asks Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen. Yes. And this relates to my interest in Theory of Constraints.
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Is multitasking a good idea or not? Let's define it and clarify what it is that bothers me about working on multiple tasks at once.
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Lucas McDonnell provides 31 essential knowledge management sites. Most of these sites are blogs with a few other types of website that are frequently updated.
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John Barben wants to know What's happened over the last year in social software? I think it is simply that social software is now a known quantity by a large portion of the populace.
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Scott Niesen of Attensa has posted a series of articles on "Feed Reading Best Practice." I provide my thoughts on his suggestions.
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In the fun category comes this card from Magic: the Gathering, The Orcish Librarian.
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In the knowledge management world, a common starting point is discussion of "hierarchy" of data-information-knowledge. But this model is severely limited. David Snowden has discovered another way to look at this, and I take a stab at drawing it another way.
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My ten weeks of teaching KM in Northwestern's Learning and Organizational Change program starts tonight. As I mentioned previously, I am going to introduce a quarter-long project where the students will read blogs and create their own.
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John Baldoni has a review of Frank Luntz' new book "Words that Work." I couldn't help thinking of The Leader with Seven Faces, as "what you say" is the first of these.
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Anjo Anjewierden is getting Settled into his new position. They have an interesting arrangement for the coffee machine that enhances knowledge sharing.
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Maggie Fox has some familiar thoughts on "How Social Media is Changing Everything." I like this take on how and why communities of interest have grown with the expansion of social media.
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Eli Goldratt, founder of the concepts behind Theory of Constraints, has a couple articles out recently that cover what's happening with Viable Vision.
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I've always been entertained by Ze Frank's video postcards, but I was never a regular. For the March 13th show, he assembled a series of 15-seconds-or-less videos from his fans. Most are "thanks for the show," and there are a number that are quite touching. Communities need a rallying point -...
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There are two types of buy-in, but Eli Goldratt totally forgot about one after writing It's Not Luck.
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In TOC Application Expert training, we are talking about the goal of Viable Vision projects to achieve ongoing growth in companies.
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Josh Jacobs, the president of X-1, talks with Dan Keldsen about email triage in a world of desktop search.
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A review of The Leader with Seven Faces by Leandro Herrero.
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Among other things, editing Wikipedia entries is apparently a soft addiction.
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I'm always interested in discussions that take the idea of social networks and apply them to something important to the speaker. Nic Brisbourne is seeing the links between all the social networks discussions and The Cluetrain Manifesto.
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Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.
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This list of podcasts didn't seem to fit into the My Media Sources meme, so I provide a commented list here, along with the OPML file.
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Nimmy pegged me, and since I need to do some procrastinating, here we go. The idea is to tell you about what media sources I use.
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Chuck Frey has released the results of his recent mind mapping software survey. This survey was about how mapping software is used and the functionality that people find most helpful at a high level.
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APQC's knowledge management blogger, Jim Lee, doesn't think so. I think he's looking at things the wrong way.
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Chicago Tribune business columnist, Barbara Rose, had a piece on the importance of "face time" yesterday.
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OnePipe gives you a quick way to create a sub-feed from an existing feed based on your query.
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Brett Miller has some interesting thoughts about memory and anti-memory. Maybe we need to learn how to forget.
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Mohamed Taher turned up a research paper that delves into the "Role of Information Professionals in Knowledge Management Programs."
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David Laffineuse provides a great quote on the mindset of resource managers in multi-project environments.
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James Robertson usually has interesting things to say around knowledge management. This time he clearly states that There are no "KM Systems" in his latest CM Briefing Excellent.
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Jim McGee is thinking about "enterprise 2.0" and the importance of thinking styles.
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Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts on what he calls The Ad hocracy in organizations that appear to prefer doing things without well-defined processes.
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The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.
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Mukund Mohan documents a case study that talks about what engages a community: interesting questions.
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Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.
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Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.
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Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.
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I read Bruce MacEwen fairly regularly for pieces like this one, "Do the Management Gurus Have Clothes?" I see a link to Theory of Constraints in his discussion.
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