KM Euphemisms – ‘Culture’

Knowledge Management is something I love to do and to talk about.  Nonaka and Taguchi is music to my ears. However, in my education we talked around a central KM issue that needs to be considered more. The euphemism that is used in KM is ‘culture’.  What exactly does this mean? It means considering what [...]

Why you need an Information Professional – Checking your Sources

I watched an episode of CSI a few nights ago, # 180 – The Theory of Everything.
The episode itself is pretty amusing, for a former physics geek like me the name-dropping of famous scientists was a lot of fun. The big issue with this episode (and it’s huge) is their choice for the portrayal of [...]

Frontiers of Business – Reputation Monitoring on a Budget

Reputation management companies are a small but growing community, listing services that monitor blogs, forums and the mainstream media to alert a company about disgruntled customers publicizing their grievances. With a little experimentation you can get similar service from an RSS reader and some careful internet searching.

The symbol above is something you might recognize. It [...]

Knowledge Management Tools – Storytelling

Storytelling?
Once upon a time?
In business?
You do it all the time.
I’ve made learning a professional career since I was 5 and one of the most efficient ways of processing a large amount of information is to tell it in a story. I learned trigonometry through distance estimating problems in Scouts, I learned the history of [...]

Personal Knowledge Management – Gmail

I am a huge fan of Google and their various services, including Gmail. One of the most helpful aspects of Gmail is the ability to automate the handling of recurring emails. For example, my phone service, Vonage, gives you the option of receiving notifications of voicemail by email. Using a couple of Gmail settings, I [...]

Document Managment – Personal

Version control software and practices has mad a big splash in the software world and is beginning to make an impact among knowledge workers. Of the different kinds I have used, I find them to be easy to use at first, but any attempt to reverse changes requires painstaking work through a mess of [...]

Knowledge Management Tools – Freemind

Welcome to my personal website. It’s a small beginning, but I hope to make this a personal repository of ideas, solutions, projects and ideas that I come across and work on. To spark things off I’m featuring one of my favorite tools for taxonomy building, Freemind.
What can you do with Freemind?

Planning
Brainstorming
Outlining
Mind Mapping

Freemind is an open [...]