October 2008 Archives

James Dellow of Chieftech has asked me (and some others) How do I decide what to blog about?

I grew up near Cleveland, and my wife discovered this article on the America's 10 Coolest Public Libraries from MSN City Guides.

Christopher Penn wrote about what it takes to become an expert, in response to a Daniel Levitin claim that it takes 10,000 hours to develop expertise.

David Snowden has expanded his three rules to seven. Now I have to wonder if there are nine rules somewhere. And if there is One Rule to Bind them All.

Matthew Cornell, who I know from his blog on personal productivity, asked a question on LinkedIn, which showed up in my mailbox. "Are blogs dead? Should they be replaced by Twitter, Flickr, & Facebook?"

Many people in knowledge management and social media have expressed frustration in defining return-on-investment or payback for implementing one of these projects.

Booz & Company's strategy+business has a piece on P&G's Innovation Culture by Ram Charan and A.G. Lafley (P&G's CEO).

If you are interested in corporate uptake of the services that let people connect with one another to share experience, knowledge and ideas, it might be smart to come up with another term than "social networking."

I came to July 2008 Gartner analysis of future trends, specifically on the future of work and "Generation Virtual." It has four levels of engagement: creators, contributors, opportunists, and lurkers.

Paul Young of Product Beautiful has a useful piece on "The Next Frontier of Finding Prospects" via social media websites and services.

Beth Kanter has an amusing quiz for to test your your personal information overload. I got a 5 out of 20, and provide some of my comments.

The Sunday Boston Globe's Ideas section has an interview with Philip Tetlock. They talk about his research that shows experts aren't much better than a coin toss in predicting the future.

Doug Cornelius asked me to participate in the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008, (held in Boston). Here are my notes from the morning sessions - I went back to work in the afternoon.