Saturday: October 1, 2005 10:49 PM
The first thirty minutes are the most difficult, that’s when the smell, devastation and enormity of the tasks at hand hit you. The stench is from the mold, mud, spoiled food, and rot that emerges. The devastation of a 20 foot storm surge resembl...
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Sunday: October 2, 2005 4:14 PM
This month I take a look at James Surowiecki's book called The Wisdom of Crowds. The book was published in 2004 by Double Day publications. The sub title reads Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Econom...
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Sunday: October 2, 2005 6:24 PM
Career development is one of the most important topics today with the advancements of technology, out sourcing of jobs, and continuous evolution of standards. Our employment environment is changing and we need to ensure that we are focusing on ca...
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Tuesday: October 4, 2005 3:43 PM
Published in the October Issue of CIO Magazine
In Bricklayers or Architects? [Aug. 1], Gary Beach asks what we can do to make a difference in the U.S. education crisis.
First, we must change the mind-set of the individual knowledge...
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Tuesday: October 11, 2005 1:05 AM
Interesting article written by Om Malik and Anders Lotsson, on seven technologies that will change everything. Specifically, I like #3 has it addresses the dark side. Maybe metadata should be on the dark side after all.
WHAT IT ...
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Thursday: October 13, 2005 1:46 PM
The Global Corporate Circle web page has recently been updated to include our new activities for the year, along with some new resources. We have posted our bibliography on the web page. There is still a bibliography on the corporate wiki, which y...
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Monday: October 17, 2005 2:34 AM
A new book should be published next year on open source; focusing on the technical, economic, and social implications. My perspective will bring the concepts around the Open Source Repository and Governance of the environment. The goal is to ens...
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Tuesday: October 18, 2005 1:21 PM
This is hard to believe but over the weekend I heard a speaker make the statement:
The average business person only reads 0.70 business books every five years.
The reason I find this hard to believe is that people tha...
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Thursday: October 20, 2005 12:49 AM
Nice reminder on ensuring usability for your blog by Jakob Nielsen. Here are his 10 factors
1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don't Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits...
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Thursday: October 20, 2005 8:19 PM
This month I want to bring to this column an awareness of the need in the hardest hit areas as well as lessons of leadership. Nothing we do in meta data can come close to the work done when others are in need but we can relate those observations a...
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Monday: October 24, 2005 2:48 AM
This week I am off to the second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on October 27-28, 2005. The conference will bring together academics, re...
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Wednesday: October 26, 2005 7:34 PM
If you want to build a great collaborative or metadata environment, simply follow the lead of others
Dell; Cut out all of the crap and eliminate the bureaucracy
IBM; Add Services and Solutions Galore
Harley Davidson; ...
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Saturday: October 29, 2005 1:53 AM
What a wonderful city: Charlotte, NC. I cant imagine walking through down town Atlanta with two children at 9Pm. Great Job to the city officials for making everyone feel safe.
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Sunday: October 30, 2005 6:39 PM
This month I took time to read a gem of a book by Charles Handy. The title of the book was The Elephant and the Flea; the elephant was analogous to a large organization while the flea represented a free agent or independent worker. The ...
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Sunday: October 30, 2005 8:30 PM
The ICKM Conference was last week in Charlotte, NC and what a wonderful city. Congratulations to the city planning officials for what they have done. We stayed at the Westin and the service and conference hosts were excellent. The conference it...
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