December 2007 Archives
Illinois Alliance for Parents and Children in Chicago is looking for a Knowledge Management Intern.
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Sunday's Palm Beach Post has a special report on an ongoing corruption scandal that includes a simple network diagram of the cast of characters.
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Jens Poder has a nice article on his childhood dreams, and it makes me think about my own.
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Craig Roth has some interesting thoughts in Why Do We Care About Top 10 Lists?.
I particularly like his setup of the idea of a "permanent Top 10 filter" and his description of the value behind social filtering.
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Via StumbleUpon, I found Idiagram's / Marshall Clemens' beautifully-illustrated The Art of Complex Problem Solving with mouse-over detail to the baseline graphic.
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Robert Gaskins, inventor of PowerPoint, has a Viewpoint article in the December 2007 Communications of the ACM in which he describes the starting point for PowerPoint 20 years ago.
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I came across an interesting paper from 2001 that talks about uncertainty and ambiguity in relation to knowledge strategies.
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James Robertson is continuing his thoughts about collaboration with this paper, "Collaboration is about people."
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Doing some advertising for a new-to-me networking site around product management, Catalyze. They appear to be focused on usability and business analysts, but product management is in their larger world.
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Valdis Krebs points to some more research that confirms the Allen Curve works.
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Many things can happen in 20 years. In early October, Gary Hamel (and Tom Stewart) re-asked "What Does the Future of Management Look Like to You?" There have been a lot of responses since then.
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David Gurteen's latest Knowledge-Letter contains an interesting piece, suggesting that IT is the cause of Lotus Notes failures - not the underlying technology. This can happen with just about any department.
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Luis Suarez and a boatload of others are contemplating a Next Generation Knowledge Sharing & Learning Online Conference Event - In Spring 2008?
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Check out this humorous take on All I want for Christmas - Daddy Bone doing Zombies Eating My Brains.
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Conference news is in the air. ASIS&T will have another International Conference on Knowledge Management in October 2008 in Columbus, OH.
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Stowe Boyd has just given me about the best description of why I like blogs in comparison to wikis. In blogs the author shines through. In wikis, nothing human shines through.
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Ouch! This week's Chemical & Engineering News reports, FDA 'In Crisis'.
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Martin Koser points to a survey on Social Software as Change Management infrastructure. I'm not convinced that Change Management benefits (or loses) with these tools.
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Social networking tools give me awareness of what you are doing, what you might need.
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Someone on the ActKM mailing list suggested that KM was like paining - it is seen as important, but there are always plumbing emergencies that get the urgent dollars instead.
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I received a review copy of Personal Information Management edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan. It's a topic in which I have a great interest, so it makes sense for me to review the book.
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A friend pointed to the PsyBlog article "Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies" that itself lists ten classic studies of human behavior / sociology. Which is your favorite?
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Clarke Ching has a useful question, "What is your goal in life?" And I have to say that I can't give a response just now.
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As my new job is a product manager, it's nice to see things like this. Tyner Blain points to Ten New Product Manager Tips: from Adrienne Tan on brainmates.
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Teleos and the KNOW Network have announced the winners for their Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises study.
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