Tuesday, March 18, 2003

New York KM Cluster The New York  KM Cluster® is a professional, academic and business community of practice focused on knowledge management and enterprise collaboration in the greater New York City Metropolitan area. It was launched in 2001 to address the needs of the local KM community and business stakeholders. The NY KM Cluster is devoted to creating a common understanding, shared vision and focused action regarding applied KM and enterprise collaboration for business. The KM Cluster is a user community. It represents the greater New York City Metropolitan area. It is vendor-agnostic and draws support only from participants. The purpose of this New York KM organization is to enable and sponsor a New York cluster of Knowledge Management (KM) practitioners, executives, academics and researchers. The mission of the New York KM Cluster is to fundamentally advance the art and science of KM and its application to business. Events and membership are free. 11:39:58 AM   comment []>   KM Clusters The KM Cluster® is an open community of practice founded in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley in 1998. The focus is knowledge management (KM), enterprise collaboration (EC) and electronic business communities. The KM Cluster sponsors and leads future-focused events in the Bay Area and beyond. All are welcome. Membership in the KM Cluster and its electronic community is free. The KM Cluster is vendor agnostic and receives sponsorship, guidance and advice only from participants, members and its network at large. The KM Cluster does not endorse or embrace any particular KM orthodoxy, method, organization or technique. Rather, it draws upon its open community to set event themes, drive agenda and recommend speakers.  Open, frank conversation, productive interactions and member-led community-of-practice are among the most effective means to advance KM and enterprise collaboration for all organizations.  11:36:23 AM   comment []>   Another State Implements Live, Online Reference. AskUsNow is a new 24/7 online reference service for Maryland residents. [via LibraryPlanet.com] "It uses the expertise of librarians to provide answers to questions, research guidance, and help navigating the Internet. Expand your resources, connect with an information expert!" I love their tag line: "Get answers from a librarian, not a machine." As I start to ponder my next cell phone, it will most certainly include texting ability and better web browsing. I can't wait to take advantage of this kind of service. It seems like we always have important reference questions when we're driving down to Springfield, and this type of service would provide us with those oh-so-essential answers. Illinois will be implementing something similar later this year! Side note: The term "virtual reference" is often used in this context, but I'm working to stop using it myself. As Andrew Pace points out, "there's nothing virtual about online reference. It's real librarians answering questions from real people." [The Shifted Librarian] Being a librarian and an information service provider I think this service sounds great; and I will even try it out! 9:24:48 AM   comment []>   InfoPath: Golden path or mantrap. OneNote and InfoPath. I just saw the demos for OneNote and InfoPath.  OneNote is just a glorified Notepad, no where as good as NoteTaker is.  InfoPath, on the other hand, is going to be a catalyst, an monster underwater earquake that will start a tsunami of changes across industries.  Its going to generate Office suite upgrade momentum as well as Microsoft server and middleware software sales.  Buy Microsoft stock.  Their revenue will rise sharply in the near future because of InfoPath.  I am not exaggerating, folks. [Don Park's Blog] Reading Don's blog these past few months I've come to trust his judgement on this kind of thing.  The InfoPath demo certainly offers some attractive possibilities.  Looks like M$ may have a winner. Of course the usual M$ questions remain: Not browser based, back to the proprietary client XML forms but not XForms How easy will it be to work with non-M$ platforms I guess that the last question is, ultimately, key.  If InfoPath is just another Web Services Architecture client (and something that propels that future) then it's a good thing.  Otherwise... [Curiouser and curiouser!] I got the Office System in the mail yesterday.   I have not done much more than open each of the apps.   I am underimpressed with OneNote, and I have not spent enough time yet with InfoPath to understand it's functionality.   I will report back when I know more.   The outlook applicaiton however seems stable and has lots of new functionality that will make it more useful for managing mail.   I agree that more of these apps should be avialable through a browser not through the proprietary applications interface which Microsoft provides us with.   They should do much more work on standardizing the interface.   9:01:38 AM   comment []>   Voices from Baghdad. A voice from Iraq. Seems reasonable today to hear what Salam, the lone local blogger in Baghdad, has to say. He seems like a normal, intelligent guy, who says what he thinks, but he has been very courageous in sticking his neck out so publically. He supports a regime change, but he doesn't support war, and he thinks the human shields should go home. "No one inside Iraq is for war (note I said war not a change of regime), no human being in his right mind will ask you to give him the beating of his life, unless you are a member of fight club that is, and if you do hear Iraqi (in Iraq, not expat) saying 'come on bomb us' it is the exasperation and 10 years of sanctions and hardship talking. There is no person inside Iraq (and this is a bold, blinking and underlined inside) who will be jumping up and down asking for the bombs to drop. We are not suicidal you know, not all of us in any case.I think that the coming war is not justified (and it is very near now, we hear the war drums loud and clear if you dont then take those earplugs off!). The excuses for it have been stretched to their limits they will almost snap. A decision has been made sometime ago that 'regime change' in Baghdad is needed and excuses for the forceful change have to be made. I do think war could have been avoided, not by running back and forth the last two months, thats silly. But the whole issue of Iraq should have been dealt with differently since the first day after GW I.The entities that call themselves 'the international community' should have assumed their responsibilities a long time ago, should have thought about what the sanctions they have imposed really meant, should have looked at reports about weapons and human rights abuses a long time before having them thrown in their faces as excuses for war five minutes before midnight.What is bringing on this rant is the question that has been bugging for days now: how could 'support democracy in Iraq' become to mean 'bomb the hell out of Iraq'? why did it end up that democracy wont happen unless we go thru war? Nobody minded an un-democratic Iraq for a very long time, now people have decided to bomb us to democracy? Well, thank you! how thoughtful." [Ming the Mechanic] It'll be interesting to see if & what this guy is publishing over the next few weeks & months.  Assuming he lives. [Curiouser and curiouser!] 8:56:25 AM   comment []>

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