March 2009 Archives

Smart People Magazine launches on 15 April 2009.

My reasons for being on Twitter.

Nancy Dixon has a great post on "The Incentive Question or Why People Share Knowledge" - mostly it's about the Why. Why not more on the incentives? Because we don't need incentives to share with one another. We need relationships.

Dan Keldsen spoke at the Boston KM Forum this evening with the official topic of "Emergence - Get with it or fade away." Basically, though, it was about social media and how you can bring your company, your idea or YOU to the attention of other people.

Henrik Martensson gave himself an interesting challenge: apply Theory of Constraints to Primus Vicus, a medieval recreation village in Halmstad, Sweden.

Carl Sagan: "Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligent is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used."

A few people mentioned Jonathan Spira's post on "Defining Productivity for the Knowledge Age." He defines the basic problem and promises more in upcoming writing. It will be interesting to see what he has to say.

Matt Cornell, productivity consultant, provides us with The World's Simplest Productivity Method, with Bonus Mini-Processing Examples. I'll cut to the chase: I'd always considered 4 D's, having five helps clarify things.

Did you know that there is a The Federal Knowledge Management Working Group in the USA?

John Tropea has been thinking about teams and communities for a while, and he has a nice article that ponders the differences and similarities.

Headshift's Jon Mell has a useful article on How to find the people you need, focusing on those Enterprise 2.0 services that generate most profile information automatically, based on behavior. A lot of this is already possible on the larger web, though it is interesting to note that much of the behavior-based isn't as consistently possible outside the enterprise due to privacy concerns.

Nancy Dixon and Tom Gilmore have an interesting entry on the idea of help, "When is Help Helpful?: The Capacity to Make Use of Help." No wonder "helpful" programs don't always succeed.

Eli Goldratt is pretty sure the manufacturing sector (barring cars / real estate) should spring back within a month or two.