Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
After my Knowledge Gardening talk was accepted for Penguicon 5.0, Matt Arnold the Programming Wrangler copied me on email asking who was interested in co-panelling on [a list of possible topics]. I picked "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job, Or Your Mind", and emailed my co-panelists ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
My Knowledge Gardening talk at Penguicon went very well. I was delighted with the interest in my talk and the discussion afterwards. I had put in a lot of prep time putting what I knew into slide format and researching examples (saved to my links library) of knowledge ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I had a great time at Penguicon. My talk and my panels went pretty well (more on them in future entries), I attended interesting talks, got to dance, and met some pretty cool people. There was a lot of neat stuff to be found just wandering the halls; ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
It turns out there are a lot more search results on "knowledge garden" than "knowledge gardening" -- I've found some very cool articles I'll write about later (in the meantime, you can look in my links library under "knowledge gardening").
I've also read more academic knowledge management papers. It occurs ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
erp4it: A metadata rant is an example of folks reacting badly to the term "metadata". In the linked entry, the rant is in the context of IT and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but I've also seen other vehement objections to the term (see the Wikipedia criticisms on it). ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on.
If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Occasionally I run across blogs I'd like to follow, but they make it hard to point my readers to the bits that particularly interested me. But I'm not going to add this blog to my list for reading regularly, because half the value of good stuff I read is the ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
I've read a lot online lately. I can't keep up with everything that interests me. I've begun abandoning new sites I'm exploring as soon as I notice typos or grammatical errors or stylistic quirks that annoy me, even if some of the other content looks good -- if it's good enough, I'll ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Toby Getsch points to eweek's Top 100 Most Influential People in IT list and says ""It’s interesting to see concepts so prevalent in Knowledge Management and Information Management so frequently noted."
I agree. I think more companies are waking up to the importance of helping their people deal with ...
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