Email Search Utility. Information Management for the Desktop: “I’ve wondered from time to time, however, how I might use the database to centralize all the information on my system. For example, I have some useful information floating around in e-mail archives, never to be read again. I suppose I could learn the search/grep [E M E R G I C…
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Could bad IA get you…
Could bad IA get you arrested?. The Intranet Focus Blog is, from what I understand, the only public blog dealing specifically with intranet issues. A recent post entitled Enron ? The Intranet Implications talks about how, with all this talk lately of document retention policies and email backups, little attention is paid to how documents are stored, accessed, and kept…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software:…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software: Digital Dashboard (Part 3). The two themes central for the New Desktop are Chronology and Events. A blog (a personal journal or diary) lends itself to capturing thinking and displaying based on time. [Examples of blogs: John Robb, Mine] We would be expected to narrate events, tell stories about the work we are doing, [E…
How to boost employee productivity…
How to boost employee productivity by using a news aggregator.. An interesting claim. “A small change in the way we work could shave 45 minutes off of the average workday. That small change is to use a news aggregator to get news instead of gathering it by hand.” – John Robb via Jeff Cheney: Radio. It might even be true; it feels…
vCalendar Answer! [1].
vCalendar Answer!. Phil: “Click here to add this event to your Outlook or Netscape calendar.” Me: “Phil, how did you create the vcs file??!! I’ve wanted to learn how to automatically generate these in our online calendar at work, but I don’t know enough about vCalendar.” Phil: “How did I do this? Manually, for now.” Me: “Phil, you da man!”[The…
Web Services Security Issues [1]….
Web Services Security Issues. Analyst firm ZapThink sees immaturity is the only real roadblock; over time, Web services security will dominate authentication, authorization, administration [Line56: B2B News]
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software:…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software: Digital Dashboard (Part 2). What RSS does is get information to you from the sources you want (your subscriptions). This fundamentally changes the quantum of information that one is able to process, very much like the way Samachar has changed the news habits of people. Earlier, one used to go to multiple sites and [E…
Steve Yost on ubiquitous collaboration…
Steve Yost on ubiquitous collaboration tools. Steve Yost, inventor and proprietor of QuickTopic, disagrees with David Weinberger’s assertion that collaborative software fails to thrive because companies are afraid to “hyperlink the hierarchy.” The real problem is more mundane, Steve says: … [Jon’s Radio] An intriguing hypothesis on the challenges of getting new technology ideas to take root in organizations[McGee’s Musings]
David Gurteen [1]: “Personal Knowledge…
David Gurteen: “Personal Knowledge Management is taking responsibility for what you know, who you know – and what they know.” Bingo. Knowing something isn’t enough, we should all actually share what we know and make sure that we’re communicating effectively as well. Personal responsability. What a concept. “:-)” [Steven Vore: KM][McGee’s Musings]
RoadWired MegaMedia Bag [1].
RoadWired MegaMedia Bag. Musing upon the shortcomings of laptop bags, I was very excited to find a company called RoadWired out of Henrietta, New York. They make bags for just about any kind of computer/electronic equipment that you can imagine. One of the products that caught my eye was a bag for laptops called the MegaMedia Bag. This is a…