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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
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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?
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
Work: an increasingly fractured narrative?
2007-07-24 22:19:00 On the way home from visiting some friends at a cottage on the weekend, I had the opportunity to listen to Richard Senett (here’s another interesting profile of him) discussing work, life and sociology in general on the CBC’s Ideas radio program. One of the recurring themes in the discussion was the fractured nature of work ... More About: Work
Hope you like the new theme!
2007-07-18 01:24:00 Once again, I’ve decided to recalibrate things here a little bit at the site. The site had had the same look for a few months now, and I wasn’t quite as happy with it as when I first changed themes. I’ve come up with what I think is a cleaner, less obtrusive theme (which I think ... More About: Hope , Theme , Like
?Knowledgeitis?, fast food and other metaphors.
2007-07-05 19:38:00 I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a good metaphor. A good metaphor just has a way of wrapping things up neatly — and is a great way to start a discussion. I came across a few interesting ones today that I want to share. First of all, there’s chronic organizational knowledgeitis. You have to ... More About: Food , Fast Food , Fast , Metaphors
Another way to find: KMSearch.
2007-06-29 02:11:00 Anyone who’s been reading here for a while will know that I like intelligent information reuse. It just makes so much sense to use information you find in one place in a new and innovative way. Dave Briggs dropped me a line the other day to let me know that he’s put together KMSearch, a site ... More About: Find
Personalized indexing: could it find what you want?
2007-06-25 20:33:00 Well, my other somewhat-experimental site, Knowledge Cog, has now reached 734 posts. A few of these belong to me, but the majority of them are the works that other people have created — and I’ve used Knowledge Cog as a public medium in order for other people to see the stuff that I like to ... More About: Find , Index , Persona , Sona , Xing
The message behind the mundane.
2007-06-04 22:52:00 Sorry if things have been a bit quiet around here, but I just returned from Costa Rica yesterday (and was very determined to not touch a keyboard while I was there). Costa Rica’s a beautiful country (as is Nicaragua, which I was in only briefly) — full of friendly people and great food. It was a ... More About: Message , Behind , Sage , Mund , The Message
This blog will self-destruct in?
2007-05-15 19:19:00 There are many different reasons people blog — reflecting more and learning are good examples of common reasons to blog. A few weeks ago, I was listening to a (pre-recorded) session where Debbie Weil, author of The Corporate Blog ging Book, was talking about time-limited blogs. While the session was about a year old, I was still ... More About: Will
Social network map? Try an organizational chart.
2007-05-02 01:24:00 I was speaking to a good friend of mine a few days ago, who was busy trying to juggle demands from a few people who wanted an organizational chart completed of their entire organization. We’re not talking about a small company — it’s a mid- to large-sized multinational company. Taken to the next level, there are ... More About: Social , Network , Social Network , Chart , Char
Knowledge Cog: knowledge management feeds.
2007-04-24 22:58:00 While I’ve owned knowledgecog.com for a few months, and I’ve had a few ideas of what I wanted to do with it, it wasn’t until recently that I actually put my ideas into practice. I wanted to create a site that acted as a portal for all the great knowledge management blogs out there, and would automatically ... More About: Management , Knowledge , Feed , Know , Edge
How knowledge management relates to innovation.
2007-04-23 23:12:00 I’ve often heard the argument that one of the best reasons to implement a knowledge management program is to harness innovation — yet the relationship between knowledge management and innovation is certainly a complex one. While it seems intuitive that more knowledge sharing equals more innovation, since it enables us to think and act collaboratively, knowledge sharing ... More About: Management , Innovation , Knowledge , Know , Edge
Where?s the return on knowledge management?
2007-04-17 19:30:00 In February, I talked about the ROI of blogs – and how it’s often difficult to measure the time or effort that you put into them. While reading an article in the Special Libraries Association monthly publication, Information Outlook, I was reminded of the fact that’s it not only blogs that are tough measure a ... More About: Management , Knowledge , Know , Here , Return
44 essential knowledge management sites and blogs.
2007-04-10 17:00:00 A few weeks ago, I published a list of 26 essential knowledge management sites — which has gotten a few thousand visits since then. So I wanted to update my list with some more sites that were suggested to me by visitors (as well as some new sites I’ve visited since then). Check out the updated ... More About: Management , Men , Blogs , Blog , Site
Collection and connection: does this relate to blogs?
2007-04-02 18:38:00 One of the endless information science/knowledge management debates is on the value of connection versus collection. For anyone unfamiliar with this debate, it’s basically this: is collecting information all in one place better than providing connectors among the people who share that information (or knowledge, if you like that word better). Or vice versa? Obviously, there’s ... More About: Connection , Blogs , Blog , This , Connect
Today?s featured site: North x East.
2007-03-29 17:43:00 First off, I want to welcome everyone who’s coming to this site for the first time. Traffic doubled last week, and by this week, it has quadrupled. So if this is your first time here, welcome. You can take a look through some old posts as well as the front page features by using the category ... More About: Site , Feature , Today , East , North
Business, Technology and Knowledge 0.7.
2007-03-27 18:16:00 It’s been a while since I’ve featured all of the contribution I get to Business , Tech no logy and Knowledge . I’m absolutely astounded by the number of submissions received. There are really some quality posts in here this issue — take a few minutes to browse through some of these. You’ll be glad you did. Barbra Sundquist presents Incorporate ...
Mesodata and the true Technorati traffic test.
More articles from this author:2007-03-26 19:36:00 On every post I write, I use Ultimate Tag Warrior to insert some Tech no rati tags, which show up at the bottom of the post. I’ve been thinking lots about metadata lately — and started wondering how useful those tags actually are (and how much traffic they actually generate). Wikipedia describes metadata as “‘data about data.’ It ... More About: Traffic , Data , Technorati 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
