The Trillion-Dollar Question. Jakob Nielsen has released another alertbox, this time discussing the value of a usable intranet. To quote: The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level… [Column Two]
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What’s Info Got to Do…
What’s Info Got to Do With It?. David Weinberg is wondering what information has to do with the web. [ia/ – news for information architects]
Weblogs and Leaky Pipes [1].
Weblogs and Leaky Pipes. Ross Mayfield writes: 1) The time cost of email is driving adoption of other modes of communication like blogs and online communities like Ryze. 2) Blogging is at the early adopter phase. Today the majority of users are programmers or writers. For blogging to cross the proverbial chasm, the whole product needs to support the needs of…
I’m surprised at how much…
I’m surprised at how much I like the new “Radio” aggregator feature that emails the latest news to me every hour. All I want now is to be able to hit a POST link on any of the stories to route it through my own weblog… [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Guerrilla knowledge management [1]. I’ve…
Guerrilla knowledge management. I’ve just become aware of a website created by Greg Searle devoted to Guerrilla Knowledge Management. This consists of a weblog, articles and other resources around growing the use of Communities of Practice. There’s a fair bit of good stuff… [Column Two]
InfoWorld [1]. Ray Ozzie uses…
InfoWorld. Ray Ozzie uses an example to point out why certain tools work for KM and collaboration and others don’t: Offering a timely example of how collaboration tools may be present, but not used, Ozzie related the experience of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, an intelligence and military branch of the U.S. government, during the investigation of the bombing of the…
Are weblogs legit business tools?…
Are weblogs legit business tools? Mike Masnick says yes. Mark Hurst says that Mike’s company does nothing but blogs, so of course he thinks they’re business tools. To Mark I’d say, one day someone said that about phones, and today every company organizes its business on the phone, and using other communication tools such as airplanes, hotels, notepads, whiteboards, email,…
NWFusion [1]. Mark Hurst falls…
NWFusion. Mark Hurst falls into the anti-hype trap regarding weblogs. Like many consultants today, he is using anti-hype in a way that sounds very much like hype. In this new anti-hype bubble (which seems to emerage during every tech downturn), consultants emerge to say the predictable things: all new technology sucks, existing tools can do the job, IT departments should cut their…
Portals, Blogs, & RSS: Why…
Portals, Blogs, & RSS: Why They Are Your Future. HTML Slide Show presentation connecting the dots between portals, blogs and RSS, from the point of view of librarians. [Hypergene MediaBlog]
Building A Community Wireless Network…
Building A Community Wireless Network From Scratch [Slashdot]