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Zodiac of Knowledge Capture

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The start of a new year gives me a rare chance to measure my knowledge capture output over time. I maintain electronic journals for the various projects I am driving, business units and functional areas I support, and people I work with. This results in a hundred or so separate MS Word documents, with generally [...]

No Silver Bullet for Group Collaboration over Distance?

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Lots of organizations have to deal with the challenge of implementing standard work and best practices over physical distances. With sales offices, distribution centers, and manufacturing locations scattered across the country, what’s the best way to get people who know their stuff to collaborate on process improvement – and then take that knowledge back to [...]

Rules of Golf – Project Prioritization Process Needs Clear Documentation

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Different areas of our IT department are using internal blogs, wikis, and collaboration spaces, with varying degrees of participation, readership, and success. Some observations: Blogging is Easy … The blogs and wiki(s) have effectively removed the hassles of capturing and distributing information quickly. One important early decision was to not implement an editorial approval process [...]

More Challenges for Applying Web 2.0 inside the Firewall

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 2, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

After my last post … more experiences at work, and observations in the trades and other blogs, regarding Web 2.0 tools for use in business … Improving Knowledge Capture is Half the Battle In last week’s Information Week magazine, the story of Procter & Gamble’s push towards collaboration – the tools can meet some resistance. [...]

Catching up on Mind Mapping; collaborative tools and some "market research"

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve written about mind-mapping before – definitely a fan of the concept, I’ve used it for project tracking, organizing threads for blog topics, and even planning major multi-project initiatives. Here’s a quick catch-up on some links I’ve been seeing over the past few weeks … From Vinson, a link to Keldsen’s latest podcast on mind [...]

The Joy of Programming, the Challenge of KM

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

alternate title – Techs Managing Techs; not Required, but it Helps This evening, catching up with my RSS feeds, I happened upon this old screencast from Jon Udell, looking over the shoulder as he and Anders Hejlsberg take a look at LINQ, a work-in-process set of extensions for the .NET framework. Udell captured my curiousity [...]

Selfish KM, Web 1.9, and the ‘Death’ of Tagging

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

In a recent NetworkWorld piece, Gibbs wrote about the tagging meme, and where it apparently sits on the technology life cycle. No new insights for me there (but possibly fits the CEPP rule for others); I was involved in a number of knowledge management (KM) projects back in my Monsanto days (IAPL) [note to self: [...]

Two candidates for the KM Killer App

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 7, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Vinson had a post recently, discussing the concept of the Killer App and what might fit that bill in the KM world. His list contains all the usual suspects in the area of “knowledge presentation”, but skips over what I think is the most critical KM element; how to capture all thatknowledge in the first [...]

Digging into open source for a New Big Project leads to Yak Shaving

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, it’s been over a year since I started this site / blog, and it’s about time I listen to my own coaching, and dig into some new technology, and get my hands even dirtier with Open Source. I have an idea for a New Big Project, something to keep me busy through the upcoming [...]

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