A oft repeated question / assertion in KM is the link between explicit documentation and knowledge. The point I’m trying to make, is documentation alone does not = knowledge. To retain knowledge against attrition you have to have a community that can appreciate the context, understand the issues, talk the language, adopt the assumptions, share the tricks, interpret and…
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Intrapreneurship [1].
Intrapreneurship. A new beautfully designed blog by Seed Capital Partners, The Weekly Read, has an interview with | George Kassabgi, BEA VP (from May 2003). Among other things, George talks about Intraneurship (entrepreneurship within an existing organisation): 1. The intrapreneur lives by his or her optimism. The innovator is like the explorer. Ernest Shackleton in his diary listed the 5…
RSS: RIP 2004 [1]. Dave…
RSS: RIP 2004. Dave has found a great example of the future of RSS. It is going the way of instant messaging. Closed systems that break unification efforts. The only way to fight this is to keep using desktop aggregators. However, I don’t think they will last as personal portals pick up steam in this area (myYahoo, AOL, MSN, and Google). …
A search engine for sounds…
A search engine for sounds. SearchEngineWatch.com: Ever wonder what a kookaburra sounds like? Want to use the Roadrunner’s “beep beep” as your “you’ve got mail” sound? FindSounds can help you find these and hundreds of other sound files on the web. FindSounds is a specialized… [JD’s New Media Musings]
New web-based project management launches…
New web-based project management launches. Basecamp uses a 30-day trial and three pricing plans based on the number of active projects you want to handle. There’s also a free 1-project plan you can upgrade from later on. [The End of Free]
Interesting series of articles on…
Interesting series of articles on innovation management. Intelligent Enterprise magazine is running a 3-part series of articles on innovation management, and how several emerging types of software can be used to help catalyze and manage innovation in your organization. Here are links to the first two articles, along with a synopsis of each one. [Innovation Weblog]
Knowledge competencies [1]. What skills…
Knowledge competencies. What skills and abilities are needed to make KM work? 1) Wrestle with the meaning of knowledge until you feel & understand it. 2) Walk your talk with knowledge practices, share, search, structure, make meaning, learn, seek connections, teach &… [Knowledge-at-work]
Google tutorial [1]. GoogleGuide is…
Google tutorial. GoogleGuide is a pretty good tutorial on building good Google queries, covered by a Creative Commons license. Link (Thanks, Robert!) [Boing Boing Blog]
Weak ties make for stronger…
Weak ties make for stronger innovation. Social networking and innovation is the subject of a Stanford Business School study that says “disparate information and its transmission are keys to innovation.” Study author Martin Ruef says weak ties “allow for more experimentation in combining ideas from disparate… [IdeaFlow]
Wireless News: Idle Mode For…
Wireless News: Idle Mode For Now. : Well, for newspapers, that is…most smaller newspapers have not seen enough returns or revenues form their wireless/mobile efforts.. But that will change, according to Mike Dame, business development and product manager for Tribune Interactive-Orlando. “Within the next year, we?ll… [PaidContent.org]