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{ Monthly Archives } December 2009

Merry Christmas to you all

We’re opening presents now but with the magic of Wordpress this will post while we’re otherwise engaged. We hope you are also otherwise engaged with family and friends.

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2009 12 25 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus

Who doesn’t love Handel at Christmas? Here’s a clip of the Hallelujah chorus as performed by monks who’ve taken a vow of silence yet found a way to celebrate the season.
The video quality is a bit rough, but it captures the essence:

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2009 12 24 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Scientist at work: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species a Facsimile of the First Edition, Darwin, Charles
Earlier this year, I came across the Darwin 150 Project, an effort to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. They’ve got a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and all the rest of today’s modern social [...]

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2009 12 23 Jim Books/Reviews Comments (0)

Storytelling advice from one of the masters

Luis Suarez pointed me to this excellent clip by NPR’s Scott Simon on how to tell a story:
 

 
I’m with Luis that storytelling skill is an essential in today’s knowledge intensive organization.

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2009 12 22 Jim Knowledge work
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Excellent tips for more productive conference calls

Jessica Lipnack provides an excellent set of tips and best practices for making conference calls more productive. For all the time I spend on calls, I frequently find them immensely frustrating. I plan on incorporating these practices in whatever calls I can influence.  I’ve excerpted a few highlights here:
Could you please repeat the question?
As promised, [...]

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2009 12 22 Jim Knowledge work Comments (0)

New Friends and New Perspectives from KM World 2009

One of the best parts of participating in KM World 2009 last month was the opportunity to catch up with some long-time friends, turn some long-time e-friends into face-to-face friends and to make some new friends.  One of those new friends was Allan Crawford, who directs an online master’s program in knowledge management at California [...]

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2009 12 21 Jim Knowledge Management Comments (0)

Insight on the back of a business card

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, MacLeod, Hugh
Maybe all business authors should be encouraged to start their writing careers doodling on the back of business cards. Wouldn’t we all be better off if more of us invested in distilling our messages as crisply as Hugh MacLeod does here.
MacLeod started drawing on [...]

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2009 12 10 Jim Books/Reviews Comments (0)

Smart engineers

XKCD strikes again. Food for thought wrapped in a laugh. Something for you to ponder on a Monday morning.

Spinal Tap Amps Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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2009 12 07 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Good advice from the trenches of public speaking

Confessions of a Public Speaker, Berkun, Scott
Scott Berkun is an ex-software development manager from Microsoft who is in the midst of a transition from manager/geek to author/public speaker. So far, I’ve interacted with Scott in his writer persona and have yet to hear him deliver wearing his speaker hat. Based on Confessions of a [...]

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2009 12 03 Jim Books/Reviews Comments (0)

Learning to love the backchannel

Just before Thanksgiving I was at the KM World 2009 conference in San Jose listening to a keynote presentation by Charlene Li. Like many others, I was tweeting during her presentation and posted the following:

At just about the same time, on the right coast, danah boyd of Microsoft was delivering a keynote at the [...]

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2009 12 01 Jim Knowledge work
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