Archive for the ‘knowledge management’ Category
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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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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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
This morning I'm at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group meeting. The topic is photo management software for Linux (presentation by Theodore Ruegsegger), but they also asked anyone with an XO to bring it along, so Jonathan Blocksom put the word out on the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Unless they extend it again, this is the last day to get your own One Laptop Per Child laptop (by paying for two). I have enjoyed mine more the more I've used them -- I got one with Paypal and the other by ordering over the phone (credit card). ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Paper magazines seem to pile up unread at home. I'm better at keeping up with online news/research. I can tag and point others to online sources, after all. I've been considering letting my ACM* membership lapse for a while, at least partly due to guilt over unread ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I took a longer break from blogging here than I'd anticipated, but I'm cranking back up again.
Recently I noticed that Pieter Spronk, the author of my favorite PalmOS game, Space Trader, is the Director of Studies of Knowledge Technology at Universiteit Maastricht. He also teaches Logic and Games & ...
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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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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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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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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
My first job out of college was at Xerox, where I got a great foundation of training in many subjects. While I was working there, there was a big push on Document Management -- if there was going to be a "paperless office", Xerox didn't want to be left behind. ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
If you missed CIKM 2006, you could get a copy of the proceedings from the ACM. Conveniently, they distributed the papers to attendees (one disk of CIKM, one of WIDM). Some of the more interesting papers not mentioned in the links in my previous entry:
Mining Blog Stories using Community-based and Temporal ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Jeff Heard's review last week of his favorite paper from CIKM 2006 reminds me that I never got around to writing up the same ACM conference I attended in November (it was in DC ... the next one's overseas, out of my reach). I looked around to see if anyone had saved me the ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state). The most interesting panel I attended was "Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction" -- panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer. The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
In a way I've circled around (spiralled around?) to an area where I spent a fair portion of my college years. I don't think any of us there (profs, me, other students) called it knowledge management. Still, different classes touched on different aspects of it:
Metaphysics: What can we know, objective v. subjective, ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
I mentioned "my" book club in passing during my review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. Since Jack Vinson sounded interested, I thought I'd explain a little more about the book club: it's one of my work group's weekly activities. We pick non-fiction books with applications to our work. We discuss a chapter ...
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