Sunday, September 01, 2002

Road Trip to Happiness I spent a very enjoyable day yesterday on a major road-trip. I drove from our home in Tega Cay, SC to Columbus, OH. I spent just over 17 hours driving for one purpose, to pick up our brand new Australian Shepherd puppy from a breeder in Orient, Ohio. He is a blue eyed Blue Merle that we have named Rocky. He is an absolute joy to be around and my fiancé and I spent most of the day getting to know him and of course started potty training. 8:09:03 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

More on software demos. I have recently wrote that doing demos of your software is a great marketing technique. After some more browsing I found that some people call such demos "viewlets" and that there's a tool for making viewlets. You can read other people's opinion about this tool here and here. There are some viewlets to be found here. [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog] 7:41:42 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Knowledge Management Primer. The University of Toronto has published a Knowledge Management Primer, providing an introduction to KM in 14 modular sections. The... [Column Two] 10:48:21 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Not caring. Showing that you care is something you're not supposed to do. Better to stay aloof, uninvolved, like a TV character. "I don't really care," I say, when nothing could be further from the truth. This is the American way. (Or at least the California way.) But, at some point you have to take a stand. Maybe it's in the last days or hours of life, struggling against cancer, heart disease or diabetes, or whatever's gonna getcha. Maybe at that point it's okay to care, to take a stand, to fight. But I suspect not. Even then people say "What's he getting so riled up for?" The answer of course is fairly obvious. It's called living, and it's worth getting agitated over, in theory. [Scripting News] 10:44:43 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Using the Mozilla SOAP API. With the release of Mozilla 1.0, the world now has a browser that supports SOAP natively. No longer do the tasks of assembling, executing, and handling SOAP operations fall solely on the server side. This article shows you how Web applications running in Mozilla can now make SOAP calls directly from the client without requiring a browser refresh or additional calls to the server. [O'Reilly Network Articles] [Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!] 10:04:20 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Knowledge Is Not a Zero Sum Game. From Blunt Force Trauma comes this great post about KM: Share More, Get More Knowledge isn't like money, when you give it away you don't have less. Ron Lusk points us to a wiki page on knowledge sharing started by Denham Grey. Denham is out there, often on the way, far, celestial event horizon of knowledge management, but he comes up with some excellent stuff. This page is a great resource with case studies, strategy papers, essays and fruitful links on every aspect of knowledge sharing. KnowledgeSharing. Wanted to bring this page (last updated a few days ago) back to mind for all of us. Asking WIIIFM before you share defeats the objective, you are starting off on the wrong foot. In the same vein, asking you to enter a password protected space with the aim of sharing should send up the warning signals. If your CEO comes back from a KM conference and sets up Lotus Notes with complex access privileges you should question if they have really got the message. Is giving in the knowledge economy just being naive? How about the groupware vendor that sells tools, but sponsors no work on understanding collaboration, group processes or conducts no ethnographic research? Do you believe they have collaboration at heart or are they just selling more software? [Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog] [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 10:02:53 AM    trackback []     Articulate []