December 2008 Archives

I had an interesting experience over the holiday break. I left work email at work. And I've discovered another advocate of email freedom in the founder of AwayFind, Jared Goralnick.

Here is a not-completely-frivolous test for the end of the year. How are you doing with Getting Things Done? Do you have perspective? Are you in control?

Blogs aren't the only place conversations happen anymore. Have a look around and pick the right tools for you.

Mary Abraham reminds us that Persistence Pays ... when applied correctly. Be persistent in your desire to understand the other side of the fence.

This financial crisis has done a lot of things for the world, including inspiring people to write entertaining and informative articles on the situation.

The problem: I get too much automated email from one of our internal bug tracking system. Yet, I still need to keep up on what's happening with my products.

I attended yesterday's KM Community Call, hosted by Carla O'Dell of APQC. The topic was the 2008 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises as announced by Teleos on Wednesday. APQC were one of the twenty winners.

The interesting thing to me was a find that Chris had from Bob Buckman, father of some of the earliest examples of understanding the value behind knowledge management. Chris found a list of seven points that describe the ultimate idea-sharing system.

I attended a webinar today by Peter Cohan of The Second Derivative on the topic of doing remote demonstrations and doing them well.

Lilia Efimova, Sebastian Fiedler and Ton Zijlstra have announced that they are formally closing the BlogWalk series. I hosted one event in the midst of a blizzard in Chicago.