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A brief review of Digital Barbarism: Mark Helprin is one angry man. And he wants copyright to stay.
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How often do knowledge management efforts get bogged down in the technology? Here's a current media example of the inevitable result. Toyota Europe knew about and fixed a problem a year before a US recall for the same problem.
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Chris Brogan has an article that steps away from the minutia of social media and looks forward to when we us it to DO STUFF.
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When you are looking for experts, you want to find out who the experts are and their areas of expertise. But you also want to learn how they know it and how they are at working with other people. How do they operate?
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Maybe it is the turning of the annual clock, or possibly because CES* is happening in Las Vegas that I have seen several articles that say something like Weinberger's, "The future is a gimmick."
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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.
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How in the world do you get MS Project to show you the calendar-day duration of a task when the "working calendar" of the project is a 5-day work week (or a two-shift, 5-day week; or a three-shift, 7-day week)?
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Is email useful or not? This topic has gotten some energy lately from Luis Suarez and Andrew McAfee (and others). It's clear to me that email is simply not th eright tool for collaboration.
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CommonCraft have published another informative video, but this time the interesting part (to me) isn't the subject of the video.
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Sally McGhee has a piece on the things we tell ourselves about productivity at the Microsoft at Work blog.
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After years and years of promises and science fiction and tons of money spent on artificial intelligence research (in which I participated), computers are still slow and not prone to learning from user behavior.
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Well, not quite an easter egg of the hidden keystroke variety, but I did find something I wasn't expecting when I reinstalled Office 2007 on my computer.
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Andrew McAfee applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.
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Craig Roth has posted his view on how the (Enterprise) Attention Management lens can look at the technical side of email to help with the information overload issue.
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Michael Idinopulos at SocialText has an entry telling CIOs: It's Strategy Time in which he argues that Web 2.0 concepts and ideas (as described by Enterprise 2.0) provide an opportunity to move away from dealing with servers and firewalls to helping define the strategy for the business.
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Stuart Henshall has long been interested in how technology changes and affects the way we work. The other day, he asked the question, "How is your mobile phone use changing? What would your next smart phone do?" Here are my thoughts on top of his.
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I attempt to play with Wolfram|Alpha a bit, but I think my interface isn't fully compatible with Wolfram|Alpha's.
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A reader asked me a question about using wikis for student group projects. I have some ideas, but I'd love to hear from my readers with suggestions as well.
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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.
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Another fun Twitter-analysis website. A mosaic of your followers / followees.
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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.
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I attended a webinar today by Peter Cohan of The Second Derivative on the topic of doing remote demonstrations and doing them well.
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James Robertson points to an aspect of one of my minor peeves with software: manuals that are online PDF's.
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James Robertson and Matt Hodgson had a pair of articles recently that I see as related on the topic of doing something with Enterprise 2.0.
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I'm in Philadelphia this week for the AIChE Annual Meeting, which is its usual collection of networking and technical sessions about all things engineering. There was a session today on the application of Web 2.0 ideas in chemical engineering.
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In a conversation at a user group meeting, we were talking about options for adding foreign language to our products and the need for training in local language. The idea of active and passive knowledge came up.
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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."
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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.
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Seth Grimes talks about the claim that "80% of business-related information resides in unstructured form, primarily text." I remember this being an important element of discussions of information management (and into knowledge management) as I was getting into the topic.
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The Boston KM Forum topic this evening was "Tag Me! Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise," a talk by Laurie Damianos of MITRE.
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Sigurd Rinde has a piece on the purpose of information technology that rings a bell for me. "Teaching how to fish - IT's ultimate purpose"
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The folks in the Mozilla development labs launched Ubiquity to work on top of Firefox 3. It's gotten a lot of notice amongst the technophilic. But is it ubiquitous?
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Oh, pretty. Marcel Salathé has created a java applet that builds a network of your blog (or any other website) based on the HTML.
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One of my colleagues in marketing pointed to the new Google Insights service that helps you analyze the search terms people are using at Google.
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It's amazing to me that smartphones sold today cannot play YouTube (and other) videos and multimedia files. Why in the world should I be limited? Here is what I found to make Windows Mobile 6 work.
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I've had Xobni running on my new work computer since I started in December. Here are some thoughts about how Xobni fits into my worklife.
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It's a familiar refrain, once you get into the business world far enough. "Don't conufse technology with business solutions, focusing instead on what users value most - information."
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Luis Suarez pointed to an article by Dennis Stevenson on his first blush with Twitter, The World is Smaller than You Think. I think Dennis' observations are in line with whymany people get so excited about social media.
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In a blinding flash, Stephen Dale reminds us that "It's not the (social networking) technology - it's the people that matter."
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An article on What are people searching for and where are they looking?in the March 2008 KM World caught my eye.
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There has been a lot of discussion of what the web is all about and where it is going. Nova Spivack has a great discussion of this available as a video.
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According to a collection of researchers centered around MIT, In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an "information hub." I am not sure I believe the conclusions, based on the information presented.
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David Weinberger pointed out some "Cool visualizations" last week, and I just had the chance to take a look. Their visualization of del.icio.us links and tags is nice, but I can't see a way to get at my tags.
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I'd really like to be able to turn off the internet connection across the USB connection. But I want to be able to control it easily. There is no clear answer, yet.
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The ARC Advisory Group have developed a concept they call Collaborative Manufacturing Management. I don't see any collaboration in their description. It's integration.
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Pick just about any word, and you will find many potential definitions or common usages. Take "collaboration," for example.
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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.
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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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Here are a couple lists of social networking and social communications technologies I've come across recently.
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I had an interesting conversation with Luca Scagliarini of Expert System, a company that doesn't make expert systems per se. They are a semantic technology firm with an interesting set of products.
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