Wicked (Good) Wikis. Blogalyst Stowe Boyd has a seriously great article on wikis in Darwin. Its a good intro to wiki, compares them with weblogs, highlights their emergent properties and role as social tools. …Wikis are built upon an inherently open model of… [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
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Six steps to better interviews…
Six steps to better interviews and simplified task analysis. Indi Young discusses how to conduct effective interviews, as part of a needs analysis process. Her five suggestions: Focus on Deeper Goals Slow Down Ask Why Forget the Clock Dig for Details Scrap the Questionnaire [Thanks to elearningpost.]… [Column Two]
Ethnography applied to new product…
Ethnography applied to new product development. Elizabeth Sanders has written an article on applying ethnography to product development. To quote: Applied ethnography is gaining widespread acceptance as a research technique. But many companies are still puzzled by it, or do not know how to use it… [Column Two]
New topic map tools [1]….
New topic map tools. Peter Van Dijck has pointed out a few new topic map tools and approaches: tinyTIM: a very small easy to use (50kb jarsize) in memory Topic Map engine. It implements the TMAPI interfaces, so one can work with TopicMaps via… [Column Two]
NewsMasters
Jon Udell points to Robin Good writes on the need for a new type of professional to “to concert, orchestrate, edit, and refine quality search formulas that tap into the whole RSS universe and beyond, and that filter out relevant content based on selected keywords, sources, type of content, ranking and many other possible criteria.” The guy I am envisioning…
Managing New Product Development for Strategic Competitive Advantage – Kellogg
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/course/newprodev/npd_000.htm
Scoble on corporate blogging
Scoble writes about his Corporate Weblog Manifesto. Good stuff. (Via Doc via Loic.) [Joho the Blog]
Basecamp: New blog-based team collaboration tool
A new Web-based collaboration tool for small work groups, Basecamp, is designed to help team members share information easily and manage projects very efficiently. [Innovation Weblog]
Search Engines and Yellow Pages
David Galbraith writes about the opportunity: The market for local services has traditionally been owned by the phone companies who used phone numbers as the key for Yellow Pages listings, however, Yellow Pages publishers have been lazy and arrogant and are just realizing that they could be crushed by the likes of Google, since the majority of revenues will…
Lots of new feeds from Apple.
Lots of new feeds from Apple. [Scripting News]