November 24, 2004

Tag line for bloggers

From Cyril Connolly ... Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - New Statesman 1933 Makes me fell better. Well, sort of. [thanks Piers]...



November 14, 2004

Publish-subscribe mechanism for feeds: the essence of social software?

I realized a few weeks ago that as soon as you adopt a publish-subscribe model for information feeds, the Information Management model for a "knowledge cell" (individual or community) becomes very simple. The process goes like this: 1- The "knowledge...



What KM Governance in corporations?

I am currently reading From Knowledge to Intelligence of Helen N. Rothberg and G. Scott Erickson. The intent of the book is to explore a common framework for competitive intelligence and knowledge management. I jumped on it because I believe...



Defining the weblog

From Elmina The weblog, or blog, is a webpage on which the author publishes pieces with the intention to start conversationExactly. [Harper's Small World]...



November 12, 2004

Knowledge Transportation

Reflecting later upon the Personal KM workshop at KM Europe, maybe the transportation industry could be a good metaphor for KM. In the early days of the industrial revolution, the railway was the only industrial transportation system, and of course,...



Report from KM Europe 2004

KM Europe this year was not very busy, and the atmosphere was rather relaxed(left). I found the trade show itself somewhat disappointing. There was nothing really new since last year, with the exception of Google, and a short conversation...



November 7, 2004

Making money by blogging

Many people as for the "business model" behind blogging or behind whatever social activity on the web. It seems like such a waste of time! I just read a partial answer from BloggerCon News (impossible name in France!)I myself have...



November 5, 2004

A fine hour for French corporate KM

Today was a great day for CoP-1 the community of corporate knowledge officers I co-founded two years ago in Paris when I came back from the US. Twenty community members and twenty guests, most of them senior executives from big...



November 3, 2004

The essence of management?

From Peter Drucker:Ninety percent of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get things done...