Archive for June, 2005
June 15, 2005
Knowledge Abundance
Gerry McGovern opens a recent article with an incredibly clear statement about the current environment for KM:
We are in an era of knowledge abundance. Traditional management theory focuses on knowledge scarcity. We need new management strategies to deal with so much communication and so much knowledge.
This is why blogging, RSS, newsreaders, wikis and similar technologies are coming to the fore now. They are effective tools for communicating in an environment of abundance. Love that quote! This will definitely be making its way into my presentations (with attribution, of course).
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June 12, 2005
Movable Tags
SixApart recently released a plugin that adds tagging to Movable Type.
The tagging is only done by the author of the post so you don’t get the benefits of social tagging like you do on delicious. However, I think it is useful for creating simple categories without having to think much about it. If the tag is already used, it gets associated with other posts. If not, voila!, a new category. Much easier interface and probably meets the needs of most bloggers who are casual about their categories.
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June 12, 2005
Wiki that Project!
Here is a nice post offering four ways to use wikis for project management. It has suggestions for planning meeting agendas, real-time note taking, brainstorming and easy document maintenance.
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June 9, 2005
Conference Blogging Debrief
Here is a nice debrief on using a blog in conjunction with an association meeting. Note the lessons learned about the pitfalls of sponsorship and starting the blog well before the conference actually launches.
(Via Rich Westerfield.)
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June 7, 2005
Google Sitemap Protocol
Google has announced a new protocol that they are now using to better index web sites: Sitemap Protocol
he Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform search engine crawlers about URLs on your Web sites that are available for crawling. A Sitemap consists of a list of URLs and may also contain additional information about those URLs, such as when they were last modified, how frequently they change, etc.”
I imagine it won’t be long before most of the major CMSs out there have the ability to create one of these sitemap files. The primary benefit is to reveal pages to search engine crawlers that they would not find via their normal crawling of your site.
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June 7, 2005
Steve is a Showman
So, yesterday Steve Jobs announced that Apple will be switching to using Intel processors in their computers (abandoning the PPC chip). What I loved about how Steve announced it was that after showing several product demos and announcing the switch, he said that all the software he had shown were running on an Intel chip. I’m sure that built some confidence about how far along they are on the conversion. Nicely done!
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June 4, 2005
Feed Update
I am trying out redirecting my weblog feeds through Feedburner so that I can get an idea of what my traffic is like in some more detail. This should be transparent to all current subscribers although it might make all my recent items flagged as unread. If that happens, sorry for the extra clicks it might cost you!
BTW, if you use WordPress, this feedburner plugin is great for managing the redirect to Feedburner.
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June 2, 2005
Congressional RSS
Plogress.com is a site that blogifies data from the THOMAS, the online database of congressional activity. Using Plogress, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of your representatives’ votes. Great tool! I have subscribed to the feeds for my Congressional delegation.
(Via Gadgetopia.)
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June 1, 2005
Content Garden Hoses
Photo by Nikolaus Büttner.
In the past I have always described the task of coherently organizing the flood of content that ASHA produces as trying to sip from a full blast fire hose. However, as I kicked around the idea with some folks at work as I prepared for a presentation, I realized that ASHA doesn’t have a single content fire hose. ASHA, which has dozens of decentralized content producing groups, actually has the equivalent of several hundred content garden hoses. Taken individually or in small groups, they are easy to manage. However, when you have 100 garden hoses pointed at you, you get just as wet as getting hit by a fire hose.
So there you have my deep thought of the day. I mainly wanted to share the photo above that I found on Flickr. I’ll be using it in my presentation. Very apt.
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June 1, 2005
Yahoo! Blogging Guidelines
Yahoo! has published their employee blogging guidelines.
After a lot of work internally, the Yahoo! Employee Blog Guidelines have been published. Yahoo! employees can find them on Backyard (our corporate Intranet) and the rest of you can get the PDF file by clicking that link.”
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