Lilia Efimova, aka Mathemagenic, is doing PhD research on weblogs and the connection to personal knowledge management.
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Lilia Efimova, aka Mathemagenic, is doing PhD research on weblogs and the connection to personal knowledge management.
I had an interesting conversation the other day. An organization that does both research and manufacturing wants a system that will help them see knowledge across all their products. Does anyone know of such a monster?
This will be a short entry. Abbott Laboratories are the biggest Chicago-based pharmaceutical company. With all the trouble at Baxter and the departure of Pfizer (Pharmacia / Searle), they are pretty much the only large drug research firm in town. The only current reference to KM at Abbott is the work...
At an upcoming meeting, there will be talk about how good data management can support ongoing research. IFPAC04 Detailed Program (near the bottom of the page) Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement Chairs: Ali Afnan, FDA and Chris Watts, FDA Real time or near- real time measurement tools typically generate large volumes...
At the AIChE meeting, Cawas Cooper from Air Products talked about a project that evolved from their Innovation Week, where people were encouraged to come up with new ideas and collaborate with their colleagues to sell the idea to their respective management. Those projects that get management blessing are pursued.
Judith Meskill points us to an article that mentions some new technology for knowledge workers: knowledge management barriers... The following article is really about getting spammed on a continual basis, finally flipping your proverbial 'bit' and sending an email to the offending spammer threatening them with bodily harm and getting arrested...
Some more thoughts about designing experiements based on talks at the AIChE annual meeting.
People are talking about status reports and the new world of work. Writing, in general, is one of those hidden arts. Done well, people thrive. Done poorly, no one knows why people starve.
Allan Bonner talks about some of the history behind knowledge management and the difficulty we have in separating new technology from what might be more interesting in Locating the Human Element: In Search of Knowledge Management We are all striving to manage knowledge in such a way as to benefit workers,...
I've been looking for a description of K-Collector, as I have heard a number of people talk about it, including its creators. Matt Mower calls it a "Knowledge Centrifuge."
I was pleasantly surprised today to hear a knowledge management paper presented. The research group of Antonis Kokossis at the U of Surrey has been involved in the h-TechSight project through an EU grant. The basic idea for h-TechSight seems to be that they want to enable organizations to monitor the...
My wife and I met two friends from the KM world for brunch this morning. Noreen Kelly is a communications specialist who has recently decided that this job market needs her to be a freelance specialist. Noreen and I are both e-zine writers for the Association of Knowledge Work (AOK), and...
At a party last night, I met Todd, a young high math teacher from Chicago's Nicholas Senn High School. Along with high school algebra, he is teaching a two-year program on The History of Knowledge in the Chicago Public Schools' International Baccalaureate program (pdf). This is an advanced academic program, but...
From Knowledge Board, comes an article about The use of Knowledge Management in Project Management in Russia - 28 Oct 2003 Knowledge Management - to understand and use the value of the relations between people. In order to gain an stable profit, the relations and interactions between people within one organisation...
Ian Glendinning of Psybertron comments on my recent find of the WIKID Power hierarchy that adds Intelligence, Wisdom and Power to the usual Data-Information-Knowledge lineup. The D-I-K hierarchy is limited by the view of bits-of-stuff, whereas our full understanding of these higher properties ecompasses much more than bits: experience, culture, context. Attempting to break everything into bits typically loses the meaning of the whole. As Ian suggests, Power is orthogonal to all of these elements.
Good reference from Denham for what to do throughout a project. Knowledge-at-work: Information gathering template When collecting information or doing research, I have found this collection of 'Ps' to be a useful way to organize the information, sequence intelligence gathering activities and ensure domain coverage. People Places Problems Promises Principles Patterns...
From Content Company: Content News No. 3, June 2003 we get "The Myth of Content Management" (about half-way down the page): The hype about content management is that technology exists that will, by itself, enable organizations to be more productive and reduce the cost of publishing content. However, unless an organization...
Drool. It sounds like I need to get to the library. Joy London points to a David Gilmour article that suggests taking advantage of our natural tendency to hoard knowledge. Make that work really well and then set up a system to help people broker that knowledge. I hear strains of...
To Talk of Many Things has an entry on What if Clients Were to Pay for Knolwedge Management that focuses on legal KM. The "aha" moment is that inhouse counsel should cause their outside counsel to create "debriefings" at the conclusion of most large matters. Such debriefings would require some or...
The focus of this post is RSS and knowledge, but he provides an interesting description of what you get with freedom of knowledge. ICTlogy :: The four kinds of freedom of free knowledge Let me adapt the GNU project definition of the four kinds of freedom of free software: The freedom...