Archive for the ‘Knowledge gardening’ Category
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
I first heard about this program some months back: fellowships for 20 people to leverage the web for city governments across the US. Selection criteria included talent, experience, and passion.
They announced the 2011 Code for America Fellows in November. I was delighted to see a friend of a ...
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
I've had some experience working with fielded wikis since I wrote disgruntledly about LibraryThing's implementation of them in October 2007. I knew at the time of their potential for being able to extract info for other purposes, but I had come into using wikis with a great appreciation for ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Jack Vinson's impressions of a recent conference caught my eye. I'm not crazy about the name (I so much prefer "participatory web" to web/anything "2.0"), but I know I'm fighting against the tide here. Anyway, several interesting bits:
"The Wachovia presentation this morning appears to have opened some people's eyes on ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I've used the tag "sustainability" (on Connotea) for close on to two years to organize and track articles about ecology, esources, and other matters concerning living on the earth in the future. A few days ago, without thinking about that, the phrase "sustainable development" popped into my head during a discussion of the future of OLPC. I like my use of that phrase, ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sorry for the downtime last week -- the host box developed a motherboard / power supply problem. It's back up on a new box, and I'm hoping to tinker with WordPress next month. Sooner than than that, I'll post about my election judge experience.
In the meantime, here are links to ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
When you want lots of people to contribute specific kinds of content, how can you encourage them?One can always try to influence the culture (storytelling, glory boards, begging). One can give individual incentives (rewards for best contributors, points systems). One can send out reminders ... or put reminders ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
What happens when an organization tries to foster a community, but there's disagreement between them (and/or within the community) over priorities, principles, and procedures of knowledge management?
Not that most of them are quick to identify them as knowledge management issues, but many of the recent organization-community conflicts I'm aware of ...
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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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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Penguicon is an open source / science fiction con mashup. Penguicon 5.0 will take place April 20-22, 2007, in Troy, Michigan. They're estimating they'll get about 800 attendees this year. Geekery will abound, from Nanotech Safety to Security and Psychology to Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. Guests ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
I came up with this term when I was discussing knowledge management (and where I come in) with Joe McCarthy in comments on my January entry "Learning". I was trying to come up with a term to describe where I fit in knowledge management (at the practitioner/encourager end rather than ...
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