November 24, 2004

Tag line for bloggers

23:28 on Wednesday November 24, 2004 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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?

22:28 on Sunday November 14, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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?

19:09 on Sunday November 14, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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

18:51 on Sunday November 14, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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

16:06 on Friday November 12, 2004 | 3 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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

14:51 on Friday November 12, 2004 | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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 07, 2004

Making money by blogging

22:32 on Sunday November 7, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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 05, 2004

A fine hour for French corporate KM

1:04 on Friday November 5, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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 03, 2004

The essence of management?

10:05 on Wednesday November 3, 2004 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

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