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Pete Warden - of Facebook mapping fame - also has Mailana that lets you map networks. The main application looks at Twitter, though he seems to have some other analysis capabilities as well.
My friend, Tammy Green, just sent me a copy of her luscious Chicago Cupcake Crawl e-book. Not only is it about cupcakes (cupcakes bakeries) in Chicago, but the pictures are just fabulous. And the writing is funny too - her personality shines right through the pages.
Hello kind readers. I have been thinking that I'd like to "freshen up" my blog, but I don't have a whole lot of energy to make a big update.
My friend, Shannon Clark has posted an article about the various media he consumes, which leads me to several new podcasts to explore. Here is my list of podcasts and some mention of other sources.
It's time for another all-about-me meme. I don't think I've posted one here in a long time, as most of them have moved over to Facebook and Twitter. (Thankfully, for the most part.)
Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.
This week, I get to spend several days in San Francisco at Realization's Project Flow 2009 conference. Hopefully, I get to meet some additional friends.
A little more about blog syndication when it comes to a service like Newstex.
As of a week ago Monday, I have been blogging here for six years.
My reasons for being on Twitter.
Another fun Twitter-analysis website. A mosaic of your followers / followees.
Yet another meme, this time for pictures.
I've been getting a bunch of questions lately along these lines: What's all this about a new job, then? Yes, it is true. I am leaving AspenTech to work with two former Searle / Pharmacia / Pfizer colleagues as a member of P3 Consulting Group.
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?
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.
Typealyzer says that this blog appears to be of the Myer-Briggs type INTJ.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S.A. based friends.
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.
Pumacy Technologies AG are doing a study of Knowledge Management Blogs. This particular report provides a ranking of 50+ blogs in the KM arena for the month of August 2008.
To prove that I haven't vanished into complete thin air, I provide two items of entertainment. I just finished Scott Adams' Dilbert and The Way of the Weasel. And the Bloodmobile video from They Might Be Giants is entertaining.
The Enterprise 2.0 conference was in Boston again this year. Here are some of my thoughts and impressions as a hallway attendee.
Tony Karrer and Michele Martin are pleased to announce the founding of Work Literacy.
Here is what I said in response to, "If you were invited to give a keynote speech on knowledge management, what words of wisdom or lessons learned would you impart?"
I have been blogging for five years now. Amazing.
Usually, this isn't terribly interesting information, but I made connections around the globe with friends in KM and technology.
A totally random find from my friend Camille. Give this tool a list of interests (like in one of your millions of online profiles), and it generates a lovely collage.
This is my first experience with a GPS - the Garmin model that Avis provides. The interface is fairly intuitive. But at the outset, the unit has its hardest time.
Jens Poder has a nice article on his childhood dreams, and it makes me think about my own.
Social networking tools give me awareness of what you are doing, what you might need.
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.
I am leaving independent consulting and Chicago. Many people have heard the basics - here are the details as I know them today.
Pardon the dust. I've been goofing around with my website design, and a few people have commented that it looks like a mess. It is.
I am quoted in Lost Knowledge by Dave Simanoff in The Tampa Tribune.
Apparently, I am a "purist, expert, socialite" blogger.
John Tropea has given us his list of 20 blogs I'm currently enjoying and encourages the people on his list to do the same. So, here we go - I managed 18.
Ross McKillop of Simplehelp was offered paid advertising on his blog by "James" and decided to decline after some consideration. I've had a very similar offer and have also declined.
Lucas McDonnell interviewed me for his blog and calls me a Knowledge chemist.
Here is something I've wanted to visualize with my social network service data, my network of mutually-connected friends. Thomas Fletcher has given it to us on Facebook.
Interesting meme to collect individuals' favorite tools, started by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. They've already compiled results from about 75 respondents.
Matt Thommes is thinking about "Grouping RSS feeds by priority and frequency." This is an idea I've been playing with for a while, but I've never gotten right because of exactly the problem that Matt discusses in his post.
I'll be at BlogHer '07 this weekend, and I know there are several people that I want to meet face-to-face. And I am sure there are more that will be a pleasure to meet this weekend.
23 Skidoo, I am Catch-22. At least this five-question survey suggests that I am.
Someone from my local cycling club forwarded a link to David Byrne's journal entry on "Bicycles in NYC." While I've never had the pleasure of cycling in NYC, I have biked in Philadelphia and Chicago.
I was interviewed for an article on KM in legal departments for Inside Counsel. "Step-by-step guide to a successful KM initiative" has been published in the June 2007 issue, and I am quoted along with Dennis Kennedy and several others.
It's tooting my own horn day. I neglected to mention that this blog has been included with two dozen blogs recommended by Mindjet for writing about mind mapping.
I am now a member of the Newstex "content on demand" collection of blogs.
I'm moving out of the Corante network. I have learned a lot from participating in the network, and I hope I have been able to contribute my share to the readership.
Starting today, I am sitting in the STAR Series seat at the Association of Knowledge Work. Topic: KM in Academia.

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