Why Johnny Can’t Klog. [1].

Why Johnny Can’t Klog.. Why don’t people write? Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of criticism. Fear of reprisal. Fear of looking stupid. Fear of removing all doubt. Fear of permanence. Fear of strangers. Fear of invaded privacy. Fear of falling behind. Fear of the blank page.     Motive.  I’m thinking a lot about folks who haven’t written a paragraph since high…

Blog your Project Status Flash…

Blog your Project Status Flash Reports for communicating up.. Reporting a project’s status upward shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. The technique is to boil everything down to a well structured, bullet-heavy, one-pager you can forward weekly or monthly. Be sure you can back up what you report with more detail. Flash reports, if timely and shared electronically, can eliminate…

Keyless klogging for the rest…

Keyless klogging for the rest of us.. David Gammel suggests… Perhaps we should enable the writers to write and find another way for the others. Absolutely. A few approaches come to mind. Capture experiences and thoughts differently. Photo/caption. Like Spretzatura for the work context. Video blog. Is Marc Canter listening? Vogs and vlogs. Daily movie. Hand drawings and notes. Pencil to…

Weblog as my backup brain…

Weblog as my backup brain. Blog This at Con Jose. Towards the end of the panel, Bill Humphries said “The web log for me is a research tool,” and pointed (verbally any way!) to Cory Doctorow‘s reference to Dorie Smith’s explanation of her web log as her “Backup Brain.” Teresa Nielsen Hayden said “One of the reasons I have a…

Ten Best Intranets of 2002…

Ten Best Intranets of 2002. Jakob’s article promotes their annual Intranet report, which is perhaps most interesting to people who want to benchmark their intranet against some best of class intranets out there. There appear to be some good general observations about how corporations approach intranet re-designs and buy in. [ia/ – news for information architects]