Archive for the ‘knowledge management’ Category
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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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
This is the start of a list of knowledge management-related blogs I've come across:
Knowledge Jolt with Jack: http://blog.jackvinson.com/
Weekly Knowledge Management blog (Stan Garfield): http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/
Portals (and blogs, and other technology) and KM: http://billives.typepad.com/portals_and_km/
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Review: Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business, Todd R. Groff and Thomas P. Jones
I read this book in the fall. I wanted to get a better grip on ideas in and application of the discipline, for my group's use of collaborative software. This book turned out to have some ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Now that a handheld trigger-scanner is coming my way, I've created a LibraryThing account for myself. So far, I've just manually added books I had at the office; the major imports will come when I get the scanner and a friend helps me whip through my bookcases at home. I'm ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
While attempting to hunt up free web presentation software options for a friend (anyone know of any?), I came across the article Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation. Claim: Knowledge is created through conversation (which can take place over time). Libraries can provide a service by facilitating conversations. Gives examples ...
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
I like to check the Talk pages of Wikipedia articles every now and then (especially when I'm going to link or otherwise refer to a given article). Sometimes they give a good idea of differences of opinion about the subject (including cites and pointers to broader theoretical/academic discussions), sometimes ...
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
I was put off when I came across the term "thinkLet" today, but went looking for more info to find out if there was more to it than buzzword coinage in pursuit of publication (a phenomenon I've run across before).
I remember an old episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ("Sidehacker", ...
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Kathy Sierra's Crash Course in Learning Theory has a nice illustration of how knowledge is not something one can just thrust on another person like a data dump. It also has a lot of suggestions on how to improve the chances of someone "getting" whatever you're trying to help ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
According to 7 things to do with your blog when you take a vacation, Wordpress allows scheduling of blog entries. So, a test. But to stay on topic ... what does time management have to do with knowledge management? I can think of several overlaps:
Attention. There's ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
It amuses me that one of the most-requested pages I've created so far in my team's wiki is the chocolate chart -- it's traditional here to bring in truffles from a certain chocolatier after California visits. I've taken pictures of the tops of the truffles (which have patterns which ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Associative memory plays a big role in information retrieval. What context we're in when we start trying to process new information (or search for old) can dramatically affect how it's stored or what comes up first in the search.
For instance, today we had a potluck at work. Lots of ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Welcome! I'm coming up a learning curve and expect to blog as I get more of a handle on intellectual asset management (especially information and knowledge management), but also will write about configuration management (my background) and other matters in my life and the world around me.
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