Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Chalkboards? Try Using Chessboards. Maurice Ashley's goal is to improve teaching by guiding a group of teachers through the problem-solving strategies that are part of a good chess player's arsenal. By By SUSAN SAULNY. [NYT > Education] 7:56:09 PM    comment [] Enterprise Collaboration. Siemens Communications' HiPath OpenScape 2.0 is this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards winner for Enterprise Collaboration because of its ability to extend presence and real-time collaboration beyond instant messaging through SIP to seamless voice and Web conferencing. [eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration] 7:52:58 PM    comment [] Read any 'fake' or 'character' blogs lately?. Steve Rubel is tracking them and Shel Holtz offers his opinion on them at great length. Cartoon characters have them. Gourmet Station has one. Blogs certainly offer a unique opportunity to express the ‘voice’ of an organization and invite readers into a conversation. There’s an interesting conversation taking place in the comments of Steve Rubel’s ‘fake blog’ post. Why create a ‘character’ to speak for your group, company, or organization, when you can have a group of characters blog as themselves? Is there a future in ‘character’ blogs? Heck, there sure is a ‘present’ in them as their numbers actually abound. RSS feeds brought to you by Userplane Apps: Live communication applications powering the world's leading online communities. [The Social Software Weblog] 7:49:16 PM    comment [] Communities of Practice - progress on the study Site visits are complete and we are in the midst of writing the final report. Based on the past study, the big difference this time was the confidence factor. Communities of practice are here to stay. They are not a temporary experiment or pilot, they are recognized as organizational structures that lead to business results. Another interesting observation was with regards to technology. There was no focus on fancy technology to support communities. Partner organizations have made investments in acquiring some missing functionality such as collaboration space (only if the community requires it) but mostly they are using their own existing systems building on capabilities to support their communities. One dissapointing factor for me was that none of the partner organizations are actively using blogs within their organizations or within their communities to share knowledge. - Farida Hasanali [APQC's Knowledge Management Blog] 7:43:00 PM    comment [] APQC's Knowledge Management Conference If you have not already registered for APQC's conference please do so quickly as it is filling up fast. We got a record 80 registrations in 3 days last week. Its being held in St. Louis this year and is on May 5th and 6th. You can find details at APQC's Web site. Click on the banner at the top of the page. - Farida Hasanali [APQC's Knowledge Management Blog] 7:42:23 PM    comment []

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