tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30088632011-04-21T19:58:59.376-07:00Organizational Learning, Info Arch/Design, etc.My research and findings on organizational learning, information architecture & design, experience design, knowledge management, process improvement and so forth.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-37319572978681595432007-05-31T11:53:00.000-07:002007-05-31T11:53:36.124-07:00Initial Reactions to Microsoft Surface / frogblog / frog designInitial Reactions to Microsoft Surface / frogblog / frog designSeems like this technology has been leveraged for the Microsoft smart-desk platform recently demo'd in a manufacturing context.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-1061991232155480282003-08-27T06:33:00.000-07:002007-03-08T13:28:15.913-08:00MIT takes the audacious step of posting all their course content on the web for all the world to see and use ... for non-profit. It's called OpenCourseWare and wouldn't be noteworthy if it were, say, Podunk State U. doing it. It's MIT, though, and that makes it noteworthy.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-947382952003-05-22T07:31:00.000-07:002003-05-22T07:31:52.236-07:00This is an excellent and detailed description of how knowledge is managed and transferred on the modern battlefield using what amounts to be a wireless intranet, commercially available off the shelf GPS and microsoft chat. Chat is used for real-time consideration of issues from the field by experts with quick turnaround. There are some great (and funny) examples of application of knowledge Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-923177762003-04-09T15:01:00.000-07:002003-04-09T15:10:00.000-07:00Summary:
I did a bit of digging into Knowledge Management professional associations and certification so that I could determine whether being "certified" might be a good thing to do in terms of lending credibility to my employer's KM practice. My findings are as follows.
Certification organizations:
Knowledge Management Consortium International: KMCI
Knowledge Management Certification Board:Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-919207322003-04-03T08:16:00.000-08:002003-04-03T08:16:03.280-08:00This article focuses on Donald Schon (Schön) , a trained philosopher who enhanced our understanding of the theory and practice of learning.
Significantly, he was also an accomplished pianist and clarinettist – playing in both jazz and chamber groups. This interest in improvisation and structure was mirrored in his academic writing, most notably in his exploration of professional’s ability to ‘Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-919191542003-04-03T07:47:00.000-08:002003-04-03T07:47:05.076-08:00In this article: ongoing·Why XML Doesn't Suck (a mostly technical thesis of the good points of XML in response to an earlier complaint of his wherein he points out the difficulties of programming with XML), Tim Bray relates:
When I'm doing a standup speech, I often ask: “Everyone in the audience who thinks they're going to be using the same word processor in ten years, raise your hand.“ No handsMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-918457122003-04-02T06:57:00.000-08:002003-04-02T13:53:15.000-08:00I can't recall if I've blogged this, but John Seely Brown writes about Organizational Learning as it *actually* happens; not as the corporate entity would design it to happen via the development of shared narratives in communities of practice (Watch, Participate, Do). He discusses how organizational learning occurs because people desire to *become* part of the community (good 'ol aspiration and Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-815542942002-09-13T07:36:00.000-07:002002-09-13T07:36:48.976-07:00This touches on how we store information and the extraordinary efforts we must go through to find something in digital milieu. The case cited here is a documentation of the first use of The Smiley :-)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-811569182002-09-04T14:20:00.000-07:002002-09-04T14:20:28.253-07:00Dr. Carla O'Dell, the president of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) writes in the Navy's Chips online magazine an overivew of Knowledge Management, What's Now and What's Next.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-811440972002-09-04T09:02:00.000-07:002002-09-04T09:02:31.420-07:00Here's an article at GanttHead (a site for project managers, natch) that discusses a technique that integrates the hemispheres of the brain by allowing creativity and imposing order. The technique, using a Mind Mapping, was developed by Tony Buzan in the 1970's. There are books out about this stuff too.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-809237452002-08-30T10:06:00.000-07:002002-08-30T10:06:38.150-07:00Alright! Ben Hammersley of "The Guardian" newspaper (UK) writes an accessible treatment of how you can use a piece of software called a "Newsreader" to efficiently process news on the web. He even describes RSS (and what it's written in: XML) in an understandable fashion. Good job, Ben!Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-805722072002-08-22T08:51:00.000-07:002002-08-22T08:51:34.193-07:00Chris Goetz referred me to this article on the Accenture website about the subtleties of virtual collaboration. This came up in an email thread about the usefulness of instant messaging.
This whole area on the Accenture site, "Outlook Online", looks like it will be an interesting read and area to track.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-805271222002-08-21T09:27:00.000-07:002002-08-21T09:27:15.900-07:00Nathan Shedroff's new book, Experience Design, arrived in the mail yesterday. I enjoyed diving into it. I've heard Nathan speak at a couple of web builder conferences and have enjoyed following his development of experience design as a discipline on his website and in the AIGA Advance for Design, an initiative to define Experience Design from the Graphics Artist direction, I suppose.
One of Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-804902572002-08-20T13:32:00.000-07:002002-08-20T13:32:41.683-07:00Andrew Dillon, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Texas at Austin is interviewed by IT@UT as to what he's trying to accomplish there. I wanna go, I wanna go!Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-804361472002-08-19T10:30:00.000-07:002002-08-19T10:30:12.173-07:00Ok, I know you'll think it's nuts but here is an Evangelical Christian Pastor, a specialist/thinker on how the church should respond to the cultural paradigm shift towards postmodernism, proposing that making the "church" into a "learning organization" as part of the solution. Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Post-Modern Matrix.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-760081882002-04-30T11:24:00.000-07:002002-04-30T11:24:07.756-07:00I'm in the middle of reading George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things : What Categories Reveal About the Mind. It's tough sledding (read: serious research-y stuff) but very interesting as a primer on how people process and deal with "information".Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-33373262001-04-23T16:51:00.000-07:002001-04-23T16:56:11.216-07:00Gerrit Visser's view on Learning Organizations, what got him interested in them and what books have been helpful. Addresses the question: "What is the difference between a LO and OL"Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-33373092001-04-23T16:50:00.000-07:002001-04-23T16:54:27.776-07:00Closing the Cognitive Gaps: How People Process Information, An article from the March 22, 1999 Financial Times of London Mastering Information Management Series.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-33372122001-04-23T16:43:00.000-07:002001-04-23T16:47:30.146-07:00Constructivism explained. Systems of classification are interesting to me as a means by which we acquire and use knowledge (epistimology). Course notes from: P540 - Constructivism, defines it in two was: as a philosophy and a set of instructional practices. "As a philosophy, constructivism suggests that, while there is a real world out there, there is no meaning inherent in it. Meaning is Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32751802001-04-19T09:10:00.000-07:002001-04-23T19:10:20.683-07:00Idea Management. David Weinberger, editor of the "Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization", discuses in Internet.Com's Buzz Soup what Idea Mgt is all about (article posted TODAY! so very current). Dave is a co-author of "Clue Train Manifesto" and explains what he thinks the real differences are between "information", "knowledge", "know-how" (!) and ideas."Whatever you do, keep the three types Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32751072001-04-19T09:05:00.000-07:002001-04-19T09:08:58.990-07:00Idea Reservoir - Interactive Idea Management GroupWare. A tool for creating a "reservoir of innovation opportunities" sort of. Looks "not very professional" (like it was done by those more "technically" inclined).Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32750172001-04-19T08:58:00.000-07:002001-04-19T09:02:16.593-07:00Idea Management A consultancy based on the concept of Idea Management. The author claims to have thought of the whole thing in 1995 (at the dawn of the web age).Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32749562001-04-19T08:54:00.000-07:002001-04-19T08:57:34.823-07:00Idea Management. This is the Original Idea Management Homepage by Dave Beckwith where he offers up an index of I.M. toolsMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32749352001-04-19T08:52:00.000-07:002001-04-19T08:55:56.666-07:00CMC Magazine: A Proposal for Web Idea Management. An essay about how to use keywords (defining a protocol the author calls "Nostradamus") for idea searching.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32748972001-04-19T08:49:00.000-07:002001-04-19T08:52:43.506-07:00ShyGenius. I just discovered this category of tools today. Len Beasley passed on the link to this via his wife Cara who works with me. Cool idea but short on details as to how they do it.Looks like "glue" between all the systems. Interesting idea ... what motivates people to generate ideas? Why do they do it? I'm a natural communicator and love to tell people about my ideas but not Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008863.post-32748042001-04-19T08:42:00.000-07:002001-04-19T08:45:50.890-07:00Organizational Learning as a tool for team performance improvement. This is my blog for capturing related information and ideas as to how to do this.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559254262445527142noreply@blogger.com