It seems so easy to start with the tools before we think about why and what we are doing. The Agile Manifesto for Software Development provides a suggestion: People and Interactions over Processes and Tools.
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It seems so easy to start with the tools before we think about why and what we are doing. The Agile Manifesto for Software Development provides a suggestion: People and Interactions over Processes and Tools.
Chris Brogan has an article that steps away from the minutia of social media and looks forward to when we us it to DO STUFF.
After years and years of promises and science fiction and tons of money spent on artificial intelligence research (in which I participated), computers are still slow and not prone to learning from user behavior.
Matt Hodgson has pointed me to the writings of Anne Zelenka and a discussion they've been having about Peter Drucker and the implications of Drucker's thinking on work in a Web2.0 world.
George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.
Rich McCue provides an interesting paper, "Research in a Digital World - or - Personal Knowledge Management for Researchers." This could almost be summarized as "pay attention to your toolbox."
Kyle McFarlin makes a fun analogy in "Knowledge and Yardsale Exercise Equipment" with the picture that people collect information because they can, like the exercise equipment you see at yardsales.
Bill Ives has done his first podcast with the Otter Group's Learning2.0 podcast series. His topic is Blogs as Personal Knowledge Management, and he does a nice job of summarizing in six minutes what blogs are and how Bill (and others) use blogs as their "backup brain."
Thomas Vander Wal has a nice essay, describing his views of his Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud, The Come To Me Web. His view is that we are moving from a place where "I go get" what I want to a situation where what I want "comes to me."
Jeremy Hiebert found an interesting article about learning and personal "stuff" management. "Can personal digital knowledge artefacts' management and social networks enhance learning?" by Riina Vuorikari.
Dave Pollard has been thinking about personal knowledge management for a while. "Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) -- an Update" is a nice summary of where his thinking has come from and where he stands today.
Ton Zijlstra has been thinking about his information strategy and focuses on his tools this time. I particularly like that his graphics that show his process.
Godfrey Parkin hits on the topic of knowledge retention in "Knowledge managing the retirement brain drain" based on an Accenture survey. I also uncover a David DeLong article that suggests some quantifiable impacts of knowledge loss due to brain drain.
"A computer is just a tool. It's just a hammer. Let's get these tools to as many people as possible, let's teach them how to use it, give them an idea of what they can do with it, and then let 'em go. And that's really exciting." - Leo Laporte