Archive for September, 2004
September 22, 2004
New Association for Content Management Professionals
The formation of CMPros was just announced. It is a professional society for content management professionals. From the home page:
A group of thirty content management experts from around the world has announced the formation of CM Professionals, an international community of content management professionals whose purpose is to further best practices based on shared experiences of experts and peers.
A lot of organizing seems to be going on in the web professions, which is a stage of growth for any new field. If they follow the pattern in other industries, there will be a lot of new organizations over the next few years which will eventually consolidate into just a few dominant associations. It will be interesting to watch from an association management perspective.
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September 12, 2004
Collaborative Innovation Networks
Just learned a new acronym/concept today: COINs. Denham Grey posted a comparison of
Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) to Communities of Practice (CoPs): On COINs and CoPs.
As I now understand things, a COIN is a specialized form of CoP, an informal network that spans business boundaries and has a prime focus on innovation rather than individual participant identity, awareness and learning.
COINs follow examples of the open source ethos, participants are early adopters and they adhere to principles of collaborative knowledge networking. This seems to a fusion of social networks, enabled by web technology and knowledge sharing.
Denham provides several links to source material in his post. Check it out.
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September 11, 2004
Definition of Do It Yourself IT
I spotted this definition on Doc Searls’ IT Garage (paraphrase):
DIY-IT is happening wherever you see shelves full of O’Reilly books.
So true! I’ve learned a lot and advanced my career by reading as many O’Reilly books as I can get my hands on and find the time to read.
Which reminds me of one-half of a cell phone conversation I overheard in the M Street Borders in DC one day. This young guy in dockers was kneeling in front of a shelf of operating system books and his phone rang. Here is the half of the conversation I heard:
Young Dockers Guy: Hello?
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YDG: Yes.
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YDG: Yes, I know the server is down.
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YDG: I’m looking for a book on it right now!
Ouch.
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September 10, 2004
Ecto
I’m writing this entry using Ecto, a little OS X program for managing and posting to a weblog via a rich text interface that runs on your desktop (or laptop, in my case). Pretty slick so far. I’ve tried a few of these over the years but have never stuck with one very long. We’ll see how I do with this one.
One thing it has that I can definitely use is the ability to write an entry when I have no connectivity and then post it later when I can get online. That will be useful. And I just used the auto create a link using the url in the clip board buffer. Excellent.
Spotted via Deane’s review on Gadgetopia.
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