Status reports in the knowledge based enterprise. Status Reports 2.0. At a start-up, there are two organizational inflection points which drastically change communication within the organization. The first change occurs around fifty or so people — this is the moment when, if you’re an early employee, that you first see… [Rands In Repose] Some nice reflections on the potential for…
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From status report to discovery…
From status report to discovery tool. Weblogs as status reports – It can work but the barrier is cultural not technological. (SOURCE:Rands In Repose: Status Reports 2.0 via McGee’s Musings)- We’ve tried over the last 2 years to replace status reports with blogs at a e-commerce company I do consulting for. Success has been mixed. Even though most of the…
Working with Bayesian categorizers [1].
Working with Bayesian categorizers. There’s been some discussion in the blog world about using a Bayesian categorizer to enable a person to discriminate along various interest/non-interest axes. I took a run at this recently and, although my experiments haven’t been wildly successful, I want to report them because I think the idea may have merit. [Full story: O’Reilly Network: Working…
Using Twiki as a PIM
http://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/categories/blogtools/ For example, I have to keep track of client contact data, status reports, assorted documents and comments while I work at a client site. It was quick to setup a customer list page, create the customer page, add a link to an engagement list, status reports, etc. You can easily create page templates for creating more structured content like…
RSS Portlet, served rare. [1].
RSS Portlet, served rare.. I want to put my program in your program. Really, I want users of your program to use some of my user interface. You, know, kinda like a rectangle of stuff on MyYahoo!. That’s what portlets are for, packaging up what gets shared and how. Documentum and Plumtree and friends set up the Portlet Open Source Trading site…
Personal Wiki PIM – Update…
Personal Wiki PIM – Update I. Personal Wiki PIM – Update I. I’ve been using MoinMoin as my personal information management platform for the last several weeks. This had several goals. First, I needed to get my growing collection of documents under control. Secondly, I really wanted to dive into wikis a lot deeper and this gives me a great…
Wiki – KM survey. [1].
Wiki – KM survey.. Wiki – KM survey. Martin Cleaver and his fellow students from the Michael G. Degroote School of Business are running an interesting questionnaire on using TWiki for KM. BTW your inputs would be greatly appreciated by their class. KM surveys have become something of… [Knowledge-at-work] Something to follow up on later this week.[McGee’s Musings]
Lomographing the World [1].
Lomographing the World. The “Lomo” is a strange, cheap little camera that has a world-wide cult following. Fans have sent images from cities all over the world, and there’s a browsable map interface. Quite fun. Link found by way of blogalization, a nice site about multilingualism, blogging, and globalization. (Thanks, Patrick!)General Igor Petrowitsch Kornitzky, right-hand man to the USSR Minister…
DRUCKER ON INNOVATION [1].
DRUCKER ON INNOVATION. I‘m a big fan of Peter Drucker, and his book Innovation & Entrepreneurship remains in my opinion the definitive work on business innovation. Following is my synopsis of the innovation process he espouses. Let’s look at an example. The banks are trying to figure out how to get more revenue from services that aren’t connected to the…
The Meanings and Implications of…
The Meanings and Implications of Convergence. : It’s a ubiquitous buzzword, used to describe everything from corporate strategies to technological developments to job descriptions. But what does convergence really mean? From the new book, “Digital Journalism,” a chapter by Rich Gordon…. [PaidContent.org]