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 [...]
I won’t be able to attend this since I wll be on Spring Break with the family, but I intend to watch it after the fact. Eric’s weblog is also well worth your time if you’re interested in knowledge work and personal productivity. Sign up for my “How I use MindManager” webinar MindJet has asked [...]
[cross posted at FastForward blog] Over a lunch conversation on Thursday with Andrew McAfee, a group of us discussed barriers and enablers for adopting Enterprise 2.0 technologies within organizations. One objection that I have often seen raised came up in this conversation as well; that blogs, wikis, and other collaboration technologies represent new risks in [...]
Chuck Frey is doing a new research project on the uses of mindmapping. If you’re using mindmapping tools take a few minutes to help with his research. It’s now time for my next research project. This time, I’m focusing on issues like sharing your maps and collaborating with others, exporting maps into other data formats [...]
There is an excellent discussion of learning as sensemaking going on over at Creating Passionate Users. Dan Russell has a series of posts (Sensemaking 1, Sensemaking 2, Sensemaking 3) about his thoughts and practices when he takes on a new research based project. In addition to the value of Dan’s thoughts, each post has also [...]
Here is a simple, short, video introducing the notion of technography as a technique for using technology you already have for improving meetings. The notion is to use an outliner, a laptop, and a projector to create a running, transparent, set of discussion notes during the meeting. I’ve used the technique in the past with [...]
Dave Snowden(PDF), formerly of IBM’s Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity, has been blogging at Cognitive Edge for a relatively short while. Here’s just a little tease from one of his recent posts. Go read the rest of the post and meditate upon it. No surprise, I suspect, that the wisdom came from the women. … SCENE 3: [...]
I agree with Espen’s assessment that this is a good general argument for why anyone who has an abiding interest in a topic might want to consider a blog as one primary outlet for their interests. Granted, I may be biased given that I started blogging when I was a professor. Dan Cohen has an [...]
Earlier this year I wrote a column for the Enterrpise Systems Journal on the linkage between knowledge management efforts and innovation. You can find the column at: Get Better at Reinventing the Wheel To succeed with knowledge management, organizations should focus on getting better at reinventing the wheel instead of avoiding it. The rant that provoked [...]
