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A quick marketing lesson for Graffitti.
2008-01-07 23:55:00 I came across a post on Charles Stricklin’s blog about how the Graffitti content management system was knocking WordPress in their Google ads. Now I’m not really that partial to any technology, and I get a little freaked out when people evangelize to me about how great a particular technology is (people in general, I’m ... More About: Marketing , Wordpress , Quick , Lesson
A quick marketing lesson for Graffitti.
2008-01-07 23:55:00 I came across a post on Charles Stricklin’s blog about how the Graffitti content management system was knocking WordPress in their Google ads. Now I’m not really that partial to any technology, and I get a little freaked out when people evangelize to me about how great a particular technology is (people in general, I’m ... More About: Marketing , Wordpress , Quick , Lesson
Does your organization trust you to collaborate?
2007-12-21 18:16:00 Stephanie at Healthy Simplicity has written an insightful post about why it doesn’t necessarily make sense to ban allergens in schools. In my reply to her post, I talked about how banning something often gives people a false sense of security — and is, in reality, a security that doesn’t usually exist. This post made me ... More About: Organization , Collaborate , Trust , Organ
Does your organization trust you to collaborate?
2007-12-21 18:16:00 Stephanie at Healthy Simplicity has written an insightful post about why it doesn’t necessarily make sense to ban allergens in schools. In my reply to her post, I talked about how banning something often gives people a false sense of security — and is, in reality, a security that doesn’t usually exist. This post made me ... More About: Organization , Collaborate , Trust , Organ
The sad state of Canadian telecommuncations.
2007-12-13 20:00:00 I read an article recently in The Globe and Mail (a national Canadian daily newspaper) about a new notification system from Rogers (a major Canadian Internet Service Provider) that lets users know when they are approaching their bandwidth download/upload limit. The article cites various internet and privacy gurus who suggest that this new technology is nothing short ... More About: State , Adia
The sad state of Canadian telecommuncations.
2007-12-13 20:00:00 I read an article recently in The Globe and Mail (a national Canadian daily newspaper) about a new notification system from Rogers (a major Canadian Internet Service Provider) that lets users know when they are approaching their bandwidth download/upload limit. The article cites various internet and privacy gurus who suggest that this new technology is nothing ... More About: State
Art, bombs and user-created media.
2007-12-04 20:31:00 For those of you who don’t know, I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (there are approximately two and a half million people that live in Toronto, making it the largest city in Canada). A few days ago, I heard about the very bizarre story of an art project gone horribly wrong — where a Toronto art ... More About: Media , Tube , User , Bombs
Art, bombs and user-created media.
2007-12-04 20:31:00 For those of you who don’t know, I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (there are approximately two and a half million people that live in Toronto, making it the largest city in Canada). A few days ago, I heard about the very bizarre story of an art project gone horribly wrong — where a Toronto art ... More About: Media , Tube , User , Bombs
Creating and sharing sure beats managing.
2007-11-06 20:57:00 Today I came across an article in The Globe and Mail (for my non-Canadian readers, the Globe and Mail is daily national newspaper in Canada) entitled ‘Mobilizing minds‘. While the beginning of the article had the usual warnings about the importance of knowledge workers in the knowledge economy, and that catering to knowledge workers was often more ... More About: Creating , Beats , Knowledge Management , Sharing
Creating and sharing sure beats managing.
2007-11-06 20:57:00 Today I came across an article in The Globe and Mail (for my non-Canadian readers, the Globe and Mail is daily national newspaper in Canada) entitled ‘Mobilizing minds‘. While the beginning of the article had the usual warnings about the importance of knowledge workers in the knowledge economy, and that catering to knowledge workers was often more ... More About: Creating , Beats , Knowledge Management , Sharing , Shari
BRIITTER: knowledge sharing principles.
2007-10-31 21:06:00 Building on the principles that Shawn has put together over at Anecdote (which I came across this afternoon via Jack Vinson), I came up with a little acronym that I think summarizes some of the main points. Overall, I think in order to get people to share knowledge, we want them to be… B-R-I-I-T-T-E-R. Borrowing: Taking ... More About: Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Sharing , Principles
BRIITTER: knowledge sharing principles.
2007-10-31 21:06:00 Building on the principles that Shawn has put together over at Anecdote (which I came across this afternoon via Jack Vinson), I came up with a little acronym that I think summarizes some of the main points. Overall, I think in order to get people to share knowledge, we want them to be… B-R-I-I-T-T-E-R. Borrowing: Taking ... More About: Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Sharing , Shari , Hari
Knowledge management news portal: knowledgecog.
2007-10-30 16:58:00 I’m very happy to announce that the new site I have been a part of is now ready for its days in beta. The site is knowledgecog, has been completely redesigned to provide up-to-the-minute knowledge management news. I have to admit, I spend a ton of time on the web reading knowledge management news, articles and updates. But I seem ... More About: News , Management , Knowledge , Portal , Knowledge Management
Trying out PayPerPost.
2007-10-30 14:11:00 So I?ve decided to try out PayPerPost ? with the intent of determining whether I can provide readers with products and services that will be of value. Before deciding to sign up, I took a look at what kinds of opportunities were available through the site. I noticed that there were quite a few opportunities for ... More About: Payperpost
A few new site features.
2007-10-29 02:00:00 Just a brief post to let you all know that there are a few new features that have been added to the site. If you’re reading this in a feed reader, make sure you stop by the site to check out these great new features. The first new feature is that you can now now see ... More About: Wordpress , Features , Site , New Site
Is knowledge management bloated?
2007-10-22 18:10:00 After spending some time categorizing the elements of knowledge management, it became obvious that knowledge management actually consists of many rather disparate components. While it would be nice to think that these components always complement each other, it also seems apparent from this list that there is certainly an inordinate focus on technologies. So the obvious question ... More About: Management , Knowledge , Knowledge Management
Your opinion on the essentials of knowledge management.
2007-10-11 01:31:00 Last week, I dropped the 59 pieces of knowledge management I had identified into 5 interrelated buckets. While I feel the buckets were certainly representative of what knowledge management is about, they are only one interpretation. So I am making the Microsoft Visio document available to everyone who wants it, as I promised last week. This way, if you’re so inclined, you can open up Visio and move the boxes around. Feel free to change colours, resize shapes, add or remove items and generally do whatever you want (I’d appreciate it if you mentioned the origin of the diagram if you’re going to republish it). If you don’t have a blog or website, and feel you’ve put together something that’s worth showing off, feel free to send it to me (use the contact form to get in touch, and I’ll give you an email address to send it to), and I just may post it here on this site. Enjoy playing around with the diagram — hopefully we’ll get some in... More About: Management , Opinion , Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Essentials
59 categorized pieces of knowledge management.
2007-10-04 20:34:00 After coming up with my own list of 51 potential pieces of the knowledge management puzzle, Jack Vinson made some great suggestions as to other pieces that could be included. Jack also suggested that these disparate elements be categorized somehow — so I took a stab at putting them into broad categories. These are the groupings ... More About: Management , Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Pieces , Tego
51 pieces of the knowledge management puzzle.
2007-09-24 20:34:00 Knowledge management just seems inordinately complicated sometimes, doesn’t it? Like there are so many disparate pieces to the puzzle that we’re not even sure what they all are sometimes. I was doing some thinking over the past week about the reasons for this complexity — and what strikes me as a major reason is the amount ... More About: Puzzle , Management , Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Pieces
Knowledge chemist: an interview with Jack Vinson.
2007-09-18 17:31:00 Jack Vinson ’s blog is one of the first knowledge management blogs I came across — several years before I decided to go off and create my own site. Check out Jack’s blog archives for proof of that fact — you’ll find loads of useful content in there. I’ve been reading Jack’s blog since I found it — and considering ... More About: Interview , Knowledge , Jack , Chemist
How to break up with knowledge management.
2007-09-17 21:43:00 Heard enough about knowledge management in your organization? Getting tired of it? Maybe it’s time you learned how to uninstall it. If you’re looking to dump knowledge management, Dr. David Vaine’s guide should provide you with all of the information you need. While it’s quite funny, the points made are also incredibly true (thanks to Patrick Lambe for ... More About: Break Up , Management , Break , Knowledge , Knowledge Management
SPONSOR POST: Incorporate your business
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Business as war: winners, enemies and casualties.
2007-09-14 23:39:00 Upon receiving the latest issue of KMWorld, I noticed an article on the front page called The adversity of knowledge by David Weinberger. The article is a take on ex-General Electric CEOÂ Jack Welch’s book Jack: Straight from the Gut. In the article, David Weinberger suggests that Jack Welch’s adversial, even combative approach to business doesn’t work so ... More About: Business , Enemies , Winners , Casualties , Sine
Thoughts on knowledge? Guest post here.
2007-09-11 01:52:00 As I’m always interested in getting other people’s perspectives on knowledge management, collaboration and sharing, I’ve decided to open up the floor to guest bloggers — people who have a perspective on any of the above disciplines and would like to share their thoughts. Interested? Great. I’m looking for guest posts that are informative, well-written and ... More About: Post , Thoughts , Knowledge , Guest
Openness, social networks and instant messaging.
2007-09-05 16:22:00 Michael Clark has written up some fascinating ideas about the need for more open social networks. While I agree that this an extremely important area, I’m a little more concerned by the fact that social networking sites don’t have much incentive to share. I’m reminded of the fact that it took (in the web world equivalent ... More About: Social , Instant Messaging , Social Networks , Networks , Penne
When wikis won?t work: 5 questions to ask.
2007-09-02 16:54:00 Doug Cornelius has put together some interesting thoughts about corporate wikis. Doug points to CNN Money’s Why commerical Wikis don’t work as evidence of the failed commercial wiki — with Penguin Books failed attempt to write a novel through a wiki being the article’s shining example. Despite the assistance of a British university’s creative writing team, ... More About: Questions , Work
Bootstrapper?s 100 essential free business tools.
2007-08-30 16:06:00 I like to get things done more efficiently — but I also don’t like paying for software or tools to help make me more efficient. Bootstrapper has put together an excellent list of 100 free business tools, along with links to and descriptions of each tool. While I was originally going to put together my own ... More About: Business , Tools , Free , Rapper , Essential
More essential knowledge management sites.
2007-08-08 18:37:00 A few months ago, I rounded up 26 sites and blogs (which ended up growing to 35) that I thought were essential voices in the knowledge management world. I got lots of great comments on that list, so I decided to repost the list as a new page. In the past few months, that list has grown ... More About: Management , Sites , Knowledge , Knowledge Management , Manage
Do we need participatory information architecture?
2007-07-26 17:00:00 The phrase information architecture (although it is, I suppose, what I do) always conjures up an image of information architecture as building materials that need to be assembled properly in order to function. Perhaps this is a good analogy — and perhaps it’s not. In some sense, information is a bunch of building blocks we can assemble and tear down as we need to. But we can also recombine it many ways that we wouldn’t normally think of when it comes to bricks, wood and steel. When we talk about information architecture, there’s often an argument either for user-level tagging (which is so often, and so unfortunately, called folksonomy) and a rigid, centrally-controlled hierarchy of terms (taxonomy). The arguments on both sides hinge around how much control you should give end users over how their information is organized (since they’re usually the ones creating most of this stuff). Some would say that increased control by the end user is an inevitable r... More About: Information , Architecture , Information Architecture , Tory , Artic
2,171,905,896 spam: is information 94% garbage?
More articles from this author:2007-07-25 18:41:00 While wading through my daily dose of spam (which originally never plagued my Gmail account, but now has risen to approximately 50 spam a day), I started thinking about the quality of information. How do we gauge the value of something that there is so much of out there? How can we filter out the good from the ... More About: Information , Spam , Garbage 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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