Patti Anklam and I have reconnected after first meeting several years ago. We navigate in the same circles and our networks overlap, but I hadn’t been carefully following her work. My mistake and I’ve fixed that now. Here’s a recent piece from her with a very good overview presentation on moving from a general understanding [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, Social mediaOne of the lovely things about the Internet is that the good stuff is there whenever you finally manage to stumble across it (so is the crap, but that’s another story). I’m in the process of cleaning up a bunch of stuff that has been lingering in my various queues and stopped long enough to [...]
Tagged BloggingLuis 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.
I’ve been part of the private beta of Gist for the last several months and am still wrapping my head around it. They’ve just opened up the beta for wide consumption. Here’s the announcement from CEO T.A. McCann.
Today, Gist brings you a better way to communicate and build stronger business relationships. After a year in [...]
Espen reminded me of the following passage from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is a wonderfully succinct description of the scientific method and its power to protect us from the risks of wishful thinking when problems call for discipline. We used to use this passage as a piece of our basic training [...]
The critical leverage point for an organization seeking more effective innovation is establishing new attitudes toward curiosity. Industrial organizations were optimized to extract value from tiny doses of curiosity and cannot tolerate larger doses. Today’s organizations require more frequent and intensive invention and innovation, which depends in turn on learning to foster and effectively channel [...]
Excellent insights from Cory Doctorow on the skills and techniques needed to ensure reasonably civil and effective discourse in online environments. You would also do well to take a look at Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s advice on moderation in online forums.
Which troll-fighting techniques work
Cory Doctorow: In my latest InfoWeek column, I look at what [...]
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are deadBenjamin Franklin
I’ve been following the controversy and conversation around Digg, HD-DVD keys, and the AACS-LA response. I’ve found the following to be among the more thoughtful and useful posts on the topic for my interests:
Digg Users Revolt Over AACS Key
AACS Plays Whack-a-Mole with Extracted Key
EFF [...]
This looks to be an excellent set of materials on how current US law applies to blogging. Thanks to David Maister for the pointer.
Laws abouut Blogging (Really – Legal Stuff!)
If you blog, then you’ll want to read Aviva Directory’s “12 important US Laws Abaout Blogging.”
Very important and very clearly written.
Over the last several years I’ve gradually been replacing PowerPoint with MindManager as my presentation tool of choice. Most audiences seem to like it. Nick Duffill of Gyronix offers some excellent advice on how to make more effective use of mindmaps in presentations. Here are Nick’s key points, although all of his advice (and his [...]
