the ties that bind
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leaving and beginning
Ive handed in my notice and am thinking about how to practice what I preach, namely a smooth transition of the most valuable bits of knowledge I have acquired over the last 5 years at the NPSA. I am having a curious time at the moment.the nearest thing I can compare it to is when you buy a new car a …
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eCommerce gone wrong
Let me set the scene.my dad died several years ago and this week would have been my parents wedding anniversary. My mother is always (understandably) down on that day, so I wanted to send her some flowers to cheer her up. I looked online for some, saw that Marks & Spencer presented theirs nicely …
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A fascinating lecture
This evening I went to a lecture given by Atul Gawande. He is a endocrinal/ general surgeon who just happens to be a fantastic writer as well. His first book, Complications, is reputed to be the basis for the TV series - Greys Anatomy. He was brought to London by the World Health Organisation, and t …
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The beginnings of KM (perhaps) at my workplace…?
Several years ago, I tried to push through a knowledge strategy; it was blocked by a director who has since left saying that the organisation wasnt ready for that yet. Today, two people passed me a draft document they have written that urges the creation of a corporate memory. They, and many others …
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should I stay or should I go?
I think this Tony Blair mashup video is excellent. Must have taken a HUGE amount of editing
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Best practice versus next practice
This post from Derek Wenmouth really captured my thinking. ??I have never been a great believer in the concept of best practice. In fact, it sits somewhere just beneath my contempt for the terms world class and value added. None of these phrases are applied generally in a way that benefits the ulti …
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Forget general knowledge, it’s Google knowledge
A very interesting article from Stan Schroeder on Mashable??that argues that by its very ubiquity, Google is dumbing all of us down. People are using it to do conversions rather than remembering simple formulae as they used to. I remember reading an article some time ago that said that most people s …
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Pop!casts - the best of Pop!tech
Another conference on science, technology and innovation - Pop!tech seems to attract an eclectic mix of speakers from Brian Eno to Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine, and writer of the Long Tail, which my wife has just finished listening to on her iPod, downloaded from audible). The latest Pop!casts hav …
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Socially doing business over the web
I am finding more and more sites that are building social networking and collaborative tools into them as a means to further marketing, profitability??and general business performance. I have seen it said that Amazon is a social networking site that happens to sell books and other things. Perhaps th …
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The map of online communities
Acknowledgementto Savageminds pointing me to a great cartoonist XKCD
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Turning water into power
?? If its true, then it is an amazing technology that could alter life as we know it and completely overturn the current economic models that we use. It does require electricity for the electrolysis process, but if that could be generated from sustainable sources rather than fossil fuels, it is??mig …
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Product Development with a web2.0 model
I think that Idea Exchange might just be the start of web2.0 for the??product development function??of an organisation. It is effectively a form of on-line, on demand product development. Customers interact with the developers of a product (in this case salesforce.com) and put forwards suggestions f …
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Web 2.0 collaboration - a process model
This from Dave Pollard (in his blog called How to Save the World) via Gearoid Garvey: A Methodology for Web 2.0 Collaboration Experiments (in Reluctant Organizations) Im not sure how different the process model might be if the organisation wasnt reluctant, most of the stages are activities I would w …
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A strange but musical evening
Tonight we went to a place in Cologne called the dinner club that we found out about??in a local guide called insomnia??(free at the hotel reception desk). We got there about 7pm and the place was empty. The menu looked very short, but we thought wed take a chance. It turned out to be a very good de …
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As if life wasn’t scary enough already
Some of these people ought to be locked up for their own and our safety. However, when you look at some of their roles, you wonder if they got there by espousing this sort of rubbish. via Euan Semple and Dave Snowden Tags: General
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At HL7 in Germany
I arrived this evening at the Maritim Hotel in Cologne for a week of HL7 meetings. I am a global co-chair for a particular special interest group here and so will have a pretty full week. I called my co-chair when I had unpacked (at about 8.45pm local time) and woke her up. She had flown in from the …
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Dabbling for fun
I quite often use a website I know to catch up on what new web2.0 sites are up and running. A number of the new ones I looked at over the last couple of days have mentioned their use of a Dabble database. I had never heard of this strange animal, so decided to explore further. I then stumbled onto t …
the ties that bind
