Friday, August 23, 2002

A kloggers strength.... Lunch break: switching from work to reflection... Curiouser and curiouser! in You cannot make people smarter: My fear is that klogging will only thrive in organisations that are healthy, and that there may not be enough of them.  Or, worse, that klogging will thrive as a control mechanism imposed by insecure and fearful management.  I don't want to be a part of that. I don't think that klogging could be imposed: in "no trust culture" even if someone asks me what I'm thinking about, I can always say something else. If imposed, klogs can only capture formal activities, that in many cases go to all kinds of reports in any case. Klogs can turn in a new kind of reporting tool. This could be not so bad if it replaces all other reports. If we think about klogs as project management tool, why not to extent it to the reporting tool? Finally, I would put it broader: I don't want to be a part of unhealthy (in cultural sense) organisation. I simply wouldn't be able to realise my ambitions in this case. [Mathemagenic] » I feel I should clarify my remark. I agree that valuable klogging activity cannot be imposed, I am worried about the darker aspects of klogging techniques as they might be employed by weak and insecure management. To paraphase a master of KM: "Remember, a Klogger's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, agression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny." My hope is that they're all too busy giving their employees random drug tests and installing spy cameras to figure out what we're doing. [Curiouser and curiouser!] 7:17:46 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

ASP.NET Web Matrix (Project Saturn). I'm either the first or the last one to notice - TPFKAS (The Project Formerly Known As Saturn) has been released some days ago: New! Free ASP.NET Web Development Tool The Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix Project is now available as a free download. Web Matrix is a community-supported, easy-to-use  development tool for building ASP.NET Web applications.   Download and learn about ASP.NET Web Matrix today! [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] 3:09:47 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Book Review: Tiwana's KM Toolkit, 2nd edition.. My review points to a gap in my knowledge management library: I'm hungry for a similar book written in a Quick & Dirty style: Small, practical steps that earn trust for KM efforts. Projects teams finish in a week. Projects teams finish. Easily measurable payback in 5 weeks. Free and cheap first-rate tools. Scripts for the stories you need to tell and conversations you need to have. Ways to brag about success. I want ways to get KM in under the IT radar, within first line supervisor signature authority. [diJEST: a journal of extrapreneurial strategy and technology] 2:58:41 PM    trackback []     Articulate []