tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39157772011-04-21T19:29:18.035-07:00Ton's In<I>ter</I>dependent ThoughtsMy current thoughts repository on the webTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-938048582003-05-05T08:36:00.000-07:002005-11-27T00:14:44.853-08:00Moving BlogPlease all be advised that I have MOVED MY BLOG to WWW.ZYLSTRA.ORG/BLOG!In the coming days I will still be posting my messages in both this and the new blog. Please adjust the rss-feed you subscribe to for my blog in your news aggregators.You can find my new RSS-feed here: .I would appreciate meeting you all on my new URL to continue the discussion, as I have greatly valued all your Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-938045152003-05-05T08:29:00.000-07:002003-05-05T08:29:46.516-07:00Tipping Point Questions
In my last post I talked about the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. The point of view it offers is certainly intriguing, but at the same time I formulated several reservations. I'll try and list my questions here.
Law of the Few
Three specific type of people, Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen, are the ones to target for creating your own epidemic. These types of people Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-938044242003-05-05T08:28:00.000-07:002003-05-05T08:28:12.860-07:00The Tipping Point
How little things can make a big difference is what Malcolm Gladwell sets out to show in his book The Tipping Point. He does this by outlining how epidemics can be characterized. This book certainly was an interesting read, as it offers a way of looking at change from a different perspective. Because how is it that a brilliant idea might not become a huge success, and other Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-937459422003-05-04T07:24:00.000-07:002003-08-08T04:41:56.083-07:00Broadband for Rural Communities
My brother in law works with 1st Broadband, a company that sets up wireless broadband internet infrastructures in rural communities where the big telco's are unlikely to provide wired infrastructure any time soon. They've just kicked off their first project in Penwith in Cornwall, UK. I think these are great initiatives.
(image removed, due to objection by owner)Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-937454232003-05-04T06:57:00.000-07:002003-05-04T06:57:53.150-07:00Planning to Move
After writing this blog at Blogspot for 6 months now, I have found that it increasingly bothers me not to have personal control over content and comments and being dependent on third party services, that sometimes proof unreliable. Not really surprising since these are all free services. Since I think the experimental phase of my blog is now over, in the sense that blogging has Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-935885562003-05-01T04:10:00.000-07:002003-05-01T04:10:51.040-07:00Koninginnedag
Or in English "Queens Day", is a national holiday in the Netherlands, celebrating the Queens birthday, even if April 30th isn't her birthday, but her mothers. It's just that her own birthday on January 31st isn't exactly the ideal time of year to turn the country into one big open air festival.
Koninginnedag is the day the country turns brightly orange, after the name of the Royal Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-935873282003-05-01T03:21:00.000-07:002003-05-01T03:21:02.330-07:00Blogtalk Papers
Jose Luis Orihuela (blog: eCuaderno) has posted his paper for the Blogtalk Conference, titled 'Blogging and the eCommunication Paradigms'.
Lilia Efimova has posted some of the collected data for her paper online as well, and struggles to keep to her schedule.
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-934029932003-04-28T08:16:00.000-07:002003-04-29T01:12:12.000-07:00Small Pieces Loosely Reviewed
Recently I read Small Pieces Loosely Joined, a unified theory of the web, by David Weinberger. This by way of preparation for the Blogtalk conference in Vienna, May 23rd-24th, where David Weinberger will be a key-note speaker.
It is a well written, easy to read book, and that is where I at first got off on the wrong foot. The conversational tone of Davids book is Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-933544992003-04-27T12:21:00.000-07:002003-04-27T12:26:09.000-07:00The Techie Viewpoint
Last Friday I attended the presentation of a fraternity friend of mine who presented his masters thesis, as the last step in finishing his study in informatics at our Alma Mater.
He had made a theoretical model for, and built a prototype of, a webportal for a defense contractor here in the Netherlands. From his presentation I concluded I have moved away significantly from Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-933512292003-04-27T11:05:00.000-07:002003-04-27T11:05:28.783-07:00Merging Your Blog Seamlessly
One of the things that can become a pain in the proverbial you know what is having to do things twice. That's why I bought a PDA, and want to synchronize my PDA with both my Outlook and my CRM calendars, in stead of keeping more than one diary/calendar at a time. Via Terry Frazier here's the story of how to add items from your calendar to your Blog seamlessly.
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-933478242003-04-27T09:43:00.000-07:002003-04-27T09:44:07.000-07:00Template Changes
As a result of Stuarts posting on the possible relationship between blog design and conversational effects, I decided to implement some changes to my own template.
It is a further adaptation of a default template by Blogger. I moved away from the blue color scheme that seems to be prolific in the blogs I read.
If you're wondering about the picture in the header: it's an Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-930352712003-04-22T01:39:00.000-07:002003-04-22T01:39:14.806-07:00Conversational Blogging, or Lack Thereof
Stuart Henshall adds to the discussion of blogs as facilitators of dialogue. He is the first I've seen who takes the design of the blog as a possible cause of little interaction through comment-boxes etc. Personally I still feel that the dialogue blogs foster takes places in large parts in other media, with the blog as startingpoint, so that the dialogue Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-927085362003-04-16T04:11:00.000-07:002003-04-19T01:53:40.000-07:00Are You Addicted to Blogging
As a lot of us are preparing for a visit to the Blogtalk conference, some spending a lot of energy and time on academically sound research into the use of blogs, this simple test might be fun as well:
Are you a blogaholic? [found via Cyberwriter]
My score was 56 out of 100, which means You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-926396522003-04-15T02:15:00.000-07:002003-04-27T06:32:20.000-07:00Let's meet at Blogtalk
For those of you who, like me, plan to go to Blogtalk, in Vienna next month, a forum has been opened to meet those who plan to come, and perhaps set up some meetings in advance. This will help make you the most of your time in Vienna.
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-923763222003-04-10T11:53:00.000-07:002003-04-10T12:03:39.000-07:00The Importance of Showing Appreciation
I have thought a bit if I wanted to blog this, but here goes anyway.
This afternoon we, being me and a couple of colleagues, organised a session on cooperation between organisations involved in youth care, and the role of ICT as an enabler for cooperation. There were three presentations and a forum discussion afterwards. The presentations were by two peopleTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-923712012003-04-10T10:18:00.000-07:002003-04-10T10:37:36.000-07:00Blogging: Why would you, why do you?
In preparation for her paper to be presented at the Blogtalk Conference in Vienna on May 23rd and 24th, Lilia Efimova published two on line questionnaires:
One for bloggers: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/blogger.htm
One for would-be bloggers: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/wouldbe.htm
The goal of this study is to understand factors that Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-922841182003-04-09T04:45:00.000-07:002003-04-09T04:45:51.543-07:00Scope and Social Capital of Blogging
While I was referring to posts by Ross Mayfield on audience sizes and blogs, he himself brings them together in Social Capital of Blogspace.
Also interesting: John Udell on Scopes of Audiences. (via both Ross Mayfield and Lilia Efimova)
I would like to argue that overlap in scope is not only a matter of addressing other numbers of public (3, 300, 3k, 3M etc)Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-922823752003-04-09T03:48:00.000-07:002003-04-09T03:58:09.000-07:00The Role of Blogs, continued.......
In the last few weeks we already saw several contributions by Lilia, Denham and others, like myself, discussing whether blogs can actually serve as a place for knowledge sharing, dialogue (or deep dialogue, although I don't really know what that is supposed to mean).
Lilia points to, writes and comments on some new entries into the debate:
Blogs, dialogue and Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-920844732003-04-06T04:07:00.000-07:002003-04-06T04:09:17.000-07:00Debate, dialogue and humour
Yesterday I was at the `Night of Philosophy` in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. From that evening I took two observations home.
First Peter van der Geer, made a remark on the relation between debate and dialogue. Earlier on I wrote on debate and dialogue as opposites. He said that debate is a precursor, not an opposite, for dialogue. You have to switch to dialogue as soonTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-917849672003-04-01T10:22:00.000-08:002003-04-03T02:01:33.000-08:00Building trusting relationships from blogging
In the past few months I've wrote several postings on trust and how blogging is part of the way I build my social networks.
Today I found a quote on David Weinbergers blog, that is a nice illustration of what I mean:
Paolo and I know each other through our weblogs and decided to meet in person. (We got a little encouragement from Marc Canter. Thanks,Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-914068262003-03-26T04:19:00.000-08:002003-03-26T04:19:50.483-08:00Feedster
Rick Klau writes about a new service to search RSS-feeds called Feedster. Had a look at it a few days ago. Haven't yet figured it out really, but looks useful. Will check it out later on.
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-913368532003-03-25T01:54:00.000-08:002003-03-25T01:54:43.530-08:00Microblogosphere and Bloglet
On the left hand side I have added a few things in the last days. First I have created a set of links called 'My microblogosphere'. It contains links to technorati, blogdex etc. by which it is easy for you to find out who the blogs are in my conversational cloud. Of course the blogroll does this too, but it gives no clues as to what the interaction, if any, between Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-910586452003-03-20T06:16:00.000-08:002003-03-20T06:16:16.390-08:00The 7 habits of highly effective bloggers
Mike Sanders in his blog Keep Trying, translates Covey's book on the 7 habits of highly effective people to blogging. While always somewhat sceptic of lists like "the 7 best ways to" and the "top 10 critical success factors of" and the "just do this and you'll be happy and famous too" sort of message they convey, I think Mike says a lot of good stuff in Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-910455792003-03-19T23:26:00.000-08:002003-03-19T23:26:27.060-08:00Super Power
This morning I woke up with the first footage of air raids on Iraqs capital city Baghdad coming to the tv-screen. Even though I want to be careful not to make this blog a political forum, it is dedicated to knowledge management and learning after all, I feel the need to make this post and clarify my position. War, once declared, is no thing to be neutral about.
The last weeks, but Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-907729362003-03-15T11:40:00.000-08:002003-03-15T11:42:36.000-08:00Dialogue is difficult
Last week I wrote about listening as attaching strings to what someone says to you from what you already know and what you think to know. That last part of the statement brings a large caveat on the scene. What if I listen from assumptions that won't bear up under closer scrutiny and am not aware of it? Denham Grey said "it takes two to listen" rightly, even if I only partlyTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-907583342003-03-15T03:31:00.000-08:002003-03-15T03:33:22.000-08:00The passion of sharing
In an article on the passions that (should) drive blogging, Jim McGee eloquently answers the classical challenge 'people just don't want to share':
Discussions about knowledge management in organizations always raise the issue of sharing with the argument that people will be reluctant to share out of fear that their efforts will be appropriated by others. This is rooted inTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-907054832003-03-14T04:33:00.000-08:002003-03-14T04:35:24.000-08:00Blogs and Knowledge Sharing, III
As Lilia picks up a comment by Denham Grey on blogs from KnowledgeBoard, Sebastian Fiedler adds his responses to those points of comment:
Denham Grey:
At times I think k-logs are hyped by a few evangelists (converted bloggers). If you look closely at the record, things are not all that rosy
reciprocity is very poor - bloggers tend to say this does not matter,Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-906472162003-03-13T06:33:00.000-08:002003-03-13T09:04:40.000-08:00Search Tool Added
Through Lilia Efimova I found Micah Alpern's microblogosphere search tool (go see Micah's weblog).
As a search tool to search my own blog, and the ones I read, was something I already had on my wishlist of improvements for my blog, I've imeddiately added it on the left hand side, directly below the blogroll.
Great work Micah!
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-904750182003-03-10T12:19:00.000-08:002003-03-11T00:34:11.000-08:00Blogs and Knowledge Sharing, II
In yesterdays posting I left three issues open: relationships around blogs, the road of discovery through the blogosphere, and the blogging dialogue.
I will start with both dialogue and the road of discovery. Not only do the stories in my blog describe my road of discovery through listening, but following the dialogue that often results from these stories is a Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-904113732003-03-09T11:11:00.000-08:002003-03-12T03:42:53.000-08:00Blogs and Knowledge Sharing
Already in January I promised Denham Grey to write something about blogs as a medium for knowledge sharing. Denham and I seem to have different views of the capacity of blogs in this regard (Read his comment on KnowledgeBoard regarding blogs). Promises are often easy, sometimes even lightly, made, and it is in extremely busy weeks as I have been having recently when Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-904059872003-03-09T08:59:00.000-08:002003-03-09T08:59:48.700-08:00Listening as the Road to Acquiring Knowledge
Huub Rutten, who is into linguistics, described "listening" to me when we met last November at KM in Europe as "fastening strings on things you already know and then attach them to parts of what someone is telling you.", while moving his fingers from his own forehead (him being the listener) to mine. Please try and visualize this for a sec, while I tryTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-889899272003-02-12T12:21:00.000-08:002003-02-12T12:21:44.000-08:00Blogging in the Workplace
Our company recently acquired CAB as a partner. We are currently teaming up people from both companies who work in the same areas of expertise, encouraging them to share info, and discuss clients and projects together.
A colleague of mine, whom I introduced to blogging recently, has now suggested to give these intercompany-teams a blog to jot their references and Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-889893572003-02-12T12:08:00.000-08:002003-02-12T12:17:31.000-08:00Thinking Tools
Everybody I guess sometimes ponders questions like "what is it I want to do?", "where do I want to stand in five years?", "what exactly are my capabilities and will I be able to use them in the next project?". This is especially so in an environment where what you actually do is quite abstract, and the competences you bring into the project probably even more so. Anyway, as I see Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-889886452003-02-12T11:53:00.000-08:002003-02-12T11:54:20.000-08:00CEN/ISSS Good Practice Guide to KM
Last Thursday I spent a great day in Brussels contributing to a project that will produce a good practice guide to KM for SME's. This takes place under the flag of CEN/ISSS.
There are five items in the guide, that is due to appear in Octobre:
Terminology
Frameworks
Measurement
Implementation in SME's
Culture
I have taken up interest in the items on measurementTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-882229902003-01-29T12:01:00.000-08:002003-01-29T12:01:12.410-08:00KnowledgeBoard turns even more polyglot
Zones for other languages than english on KnowledgeBoard have been around for some time now. This week a Zone in german was added, called Wissensmanagement und Networking. The last word being as german as can be of course ;)
This is of interest to me as I live near the German border and have several contacts in other german speaking countries like Austria, Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-882223722003-01-29T11:50:00.000-08:002003-01-29T11:55:22.000-08:00Quick links to follow up on later
Lilia Efimova points me to a new blog by Andy Boyd with the explicit goal to try and find out how blogs might be useful in commercial surroundings:
Here as part exploratory and as part of our KM research program I will be keeping a blog and asking my colleagues and others to come in and comment on it's use for commercial companies employees - our main purpose Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-881490422003-01-28T02:45:00.000-08:002003-01-28T02:49:15.000-08:00The Science of KM
Often KM as a subject in Academia and as a practice in organisations seem to lead completely different and also isolated lives. Both regularly tend to shy away from the multidisciplinary aspects that are at the core of KM. In my opinion KM should embrace its multidisciplinarity because that's excactly what KM should do: network-straddling. That's why I am suspicious of Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-879133582003-01-23T11:28:00.000-08:002003-01-25T03:55:07.000-08:00Contagious Blogging
A while ago I commented on Rick Klau's experience with corporate blogging, and ended with the question if blogging would be something to use within my own company.
The first thing I did was add the link to my weblog to my business e-mail signature. This to trigger curiousity, both amongst colleagues, as well as clients and others. In my experience seeing something is a more Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-878941902003-01-23T03:55:00.000-08:002003-01-23T03:55:41.833-08:00Creative Commons
I've just added a Creative Commons License to my musings here. Not to say don't touch my stuff, but to advocate the fact that it's ok to use what I post here, to advocate I explicitly want to share (why else publish it on the web). With a few restrictions that is: correct source attribution, no commercial use, and no alterations to the original texts. In return, I'll make sure toTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-877230682003-01-20T03:29:00.000-08:002003-01-20T03:29:44.686-08:00Open Branding
Last Friday I attended a roundtable of some 20 people in Amsterdam on "Open Branding". Now I don't know the first thing about branding, apart from being a consumer that is, but nonetheless it was a great day. The people behind the meeting call themselves Chief Brand Officers Association, or CBO, and envision honest brands (hence 'open branding') as the only way to go for Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-871779432003-01-09T11:21:00.000-08:002003-01-09T11:21:06.880-08:00Trust, Emotion, Ratio
Continuing the explorations of what trust is, Julian Elvé, the author of Synesthesia, picks up on my discussion with Gary Lawrence Murphy and adds his own thoughts and questions on how to bring Gary's view and mine under one hat. I wrote a lengthy comment on his post which I won't bother to reword here, so I'll just quote it verbatim:
Hi Julian,
Thanks for giving this Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-871758032003-01-09T10:32:00.000-08:002003-01-09T10:35:50.000-08:00European K-logs on the Rise
When I started blogging myself last november I received a comment from someone in the US, saying that it was great that KM weblogs were being started in Europe as well. I don't know anymore who the comment came from, but this will be certainly good news to him or her (and I happen to agree):
Helen Baxter, editor of KnowledgeBoard.com writes:
Another exciting Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-870724692003-01-07T11:32:00.000-08:002003-01-08T07:18:51.000-08:00My Neighbourhood in the Global Village
My neighbouring websites, blogs and the like can be mapped now thanks to GeoUrl. The map is still a bit sparse, but the speed I see it going through the blogosphere with will change that fast enough I think. Thanks to Martin Roell for pointing me there.
Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-870002612003-01-06T02:01:00.000-08:002003-01-06T02:43:06.000-08:00What is Worth Knowing?
This is the question that Peter Dear asks in his book 'Revolutionizing the sciences' (see right hand side under Just read) for two points in time: around 1500 and at the start of the 18th century. From the differences between both answers he builds a picture of the changes that brought about modern science in the period usually referred as the Scientific Revolution.
The Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-868712862003-01-03T02:30:00.000-08:002003-01-03T02:30:34.000-08:00SNA Comes to Blogosphere
The Blogger Tribe at Ryze has been the subject of a social network analysis and mapping experiment by Ross Mayfield, Valdis Krebs and Pete Kaminski. The results of this SNA are interesting as it actually did two surveys at once. It checked out the connections between the members of the blogtribe both as members of Ryze and by their blogrolls on their blogs. Now we can tryTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-868409442003-01-02T12:01:00.000-08:002003-01-02T12:01:48.000-08:00New Year, New Blog, part II
Olaf Brugman, SIG-editor at KnowledgeBoard.com, Europes premier KM-portal, has started a blog experiment for his SIG.
Welcome to the Blogosphere!
The SIG, Neighbourhood, focusses on KM in NGO's. This is a type of organisation with somewhat different kinds of problems compared to businesses. NGO's differ greatly amongst themselves, but I think generally that money isTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-868219502003-01-02T01:19:00.000-08:002003-01-02T11:44:42.000-08:00New Year, New Blog
(retry: as something went wrong posting this just now)
Andrea Janssen, just within the last year, launched her new weblog on her new domain. Fliegen von ferne has moved to AndreaJanssen dot com under the title A Ja!
She now owns her own domain and has started using Moveable Type, in stead of Blogger. This adds categories and search functionality to the features in her blog. Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-868215592003-01-02T01:00:00.000-08:002003-01-02T03:01:30.000-08:00Happy New Year!
I wish you all a splendid, succesfull 2003 richly filled with all kinds of learning experiences.
My own new learning experiences this year will start with a course "Knowledge Management in Learning Organizations", next Tuesday, at university. I've just looked up the material to be (partly) studied for the first session:
Management Gurusand ManagementFashionsThe Fifth Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-862749272002-12-19T08:23:00.000-08:002002-12-19T08:37:52.000-08:00Blog silence
Within a day after Sebastien Paquet announced he was going to reduce his blogging activities, my own blog fell silent as well. Which was rather an untimely event since Sebastien was advocating me as a possible destination for a daily dosis of blogging on what he describes as 'human knowledge management', to compensate for missing his own daily posts. By the way I am delighted by the Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-857386042002-12-09T10:51:00.000-08:002002-12-09T10:51:51.660-08:00Flying CoPs
Andrea Janssen posts a text by Diane Le Moult of Siemens with lessons and guide lines concerning Communities of Practice. I could have, or maybe should have, seen it myself, as I am a frequent visitor of KnowledgeBoard.
In our company we have transformed the way we work in the last year. Earlier we had senior researchers, all responsible for acquiring accounts, with a pool of juniorTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-856076342002-12-06T12:31:00.000-08:002002-12-07T00:32:00.000-08:00Fun is in! Or is it?
While on KnowledgeBoard the role of having fun in motivating knowledge workers is highlighted, and attempts are made to identify the building blocks of having fun in your work, counter initiatives are reported from elsewhere. Via the Trust e-mail group Nick King of BT points me to an attempt to bring back Prussian discipline to the workplace. Thirty year old Judith Mair Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-855516242002-12-05T11:34:00.000-08:002002-12-05T11:34:19.040-08:00Blogging Cold Turkey
Lilia Efimova returns to the Blogosphere with Mathemagenic after being unable to blog for two weeks due to the fire at Twente University that knocked out both her work and home internet connection. She describes the effects of not being able to blog: thoughts and ideas not followed up on, notetaking on articles frustrated, and concludes that her productivity was lower than Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-854235292002-12-03T02:26:00.000-08:002002-12-04T00:14:45.000-08:00Grass Roots: Learning to Share
Me, I'm more of a thinker than a practitioner, and that is also the case for a significant part of my colleagues I believe. This translates into lengthy debates on almost anything in our company, without resulting in decisions, and implementation thereof. Part of the problem is, in my view, that we're good at thinking up grand schemes concerning internal Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-853391842002-12-01T11:13:00.000-08:002002-12-01T11:25:36.000-08:00Appreciating Your Neighbours
Sebastien Paquet uses Thanksgiving as a trigger to start putting into words what it is that other people add to his life:
So on this occasion I've started a Neighborhood Tour page where I try to acknowledge how the various people listed in my sidebar influence my thinking and actions.
Expressing thanks and acknowledgements are very important in creating a Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-853336232002-12-01T08:09:00.000-08:002002-12-01T08:33:53.000-08:00Karl Sveiby's key note speech at KM in Europe 2002
As I wrote before, I visited the KM in Europe 2002 convention in London November 13-15th. On the last day Karl Erik Sveiby held his key note speech. I did not find time before to make a report from my hand written notes, so I'm doing it now.
The powerpoint presentation (even though he thinks powerpoint is a very bad way of 'pushing' information Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-852443422002-11-28T23:28:00.000-08:002002-11-29T04:06:10.000-08:00My Bookshelf
I don't know about you but the first thing I do when I visit a friends house I've never been in before is take a look at his or her bookshelves.
It gives me extra insight in interests, scope and depth of interests, and more often than not points me to interesting reads I had not discovered yet myself.
To create a bit of that feeling right here in my blog, I've added the titles Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-852441262002-11-28T23:19:00.000-08:002002-11-29T04:16:53.000-08:00Join a Tribe!
The historical development of western man went from hunter-gatherers, to nomads, to tribal farming villages, to industrial age towns, and now to cybernavigating city-dwellers. And this week I took a step back and joined a tribe. A tribe? Yup!
My anthropology teacher already told me that the steps in western man's history do not form an evolutionary path in the sense that all other Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-852062732002-11-28T03:52:00.000-08:002002-11-28T06:39:03.000-08:00Knowledge Roles Rolling
The Knowledge Roles are rolling around the blogosphere, notes Andrea.
Thought?Horizon warns us not to take these roles as who we are, but as actions, what we do.
I agree totally. Like with Belbin's Teamroles I see several roles I feel very comfortable with, several that I don't feel comfortable with at all, and others I'm pretty neutral to. However, as Thought?Horizon Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-851572502002-11-27T04:04:00.000-08:002003-02-04T09:40:58.000-08:00The Seeds of Success
Dianne Ford of the Queen's School of Business in Kingstown, Canada, has written a very useful paper on Trust in KM. She addresses different aspects of trust, and directly links them to different knowledge processes in organisations. This paper might be very useful in translating what I have said earlier on the role of trust in organisations and km into practical approaches. Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-851560842002-11-27T03:20:00.000-08:002002-11-27T04:05:44.000-08:00Knowledge Roles
In Fliegen von ferne, Andrea Janssen's weblog, David Skyrme is cited on the roles in KM he distinguishes. The different roles build on different strengths ands personality traits. Andrea posts it as a means for determining your career 'anchors'. It reminds me however of the Team Roles by Belbin. Thus David's roles in KM become not only a means of determining your personal positionTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-850651192002-11-25T10:24:00.000-08:002002-11-26T00:35:55.000-08:00Trust, Organisations, and Philosophic Jargon
While preparing for an exam Tuesday afternoon, I started correlating the material under study, dealing with the task description and fields of operation for a 'philosopher of technology', with what I have said here earlier on trustflows in organisations.
First of all it seems not clear to everyone that organisational structures are able to convey Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-850179212002-11-24T12:02:00.000-08:002002-11-25T04:59:12.000-08:00How to Measure Trust in Your Organisation?
In recent months I have spend time regularly on trust and its implications for knowledge management. This has all been sparked by a article of John Moore on the value of trust. Only last week a whole new Trust Special Interest Group on KnowledgeBoard.com has been started, which John moderates, since the topic had become too large to be just a part of theTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-849182882002-11-22T03:19:00.000-08:002002-11-23T06:10:10.000-08:00What is the Mark of a Master?
Gareth published this list of tips on how to write texts properly, or at least increase the chance of it being written properly. An article that was referenced to a lot in the last days.
Last weekend in a Waterstone's in Salisbury I picked up a book on how to write philosophical texts, which is of interest as I am currently studying philosophy.
What is the use of Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-849163622002-11-22T01:56:00.000-08:002002-11-22T01:58:45.000-08:00Corporate Blogging
Rick Klau published an evaluation of his klog-experiment in his company, which makes a very interesting read.
Valuable lessons can be learned from this posting. He ran a pilot with 12 people from the 125 in the company for a month. Interesting are the comments on how blogs were used by these 12 people:
A senior developer saw Radio as a great annotated bookmark tool - a way toTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-848266542002-11-20T10:45:00.000-08:002002-11-23T06:11:00.000-08:00Alma Mater up in flames
This morning around 8 I logged on to work from home. While discussing (by phone) and jointly editing a file with a colleague, suddenly my connection to the office was lost. In the office, 30 minutes later (yes I live only 5 mins from work!), an internal e-mail made clear why: one of the buildings of Twente University stood ablaze. This building accidently not only houses Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-846148352002-11-16T00:28:00.000-08:002002-12-02T01:57:35.000-08:00Three days very well spent
Yesterday saw me getting up as early as 06:00 to reach the Ally Pally in time at 09:10, for Karl Erik Sveiby's keynote speach. An journey that should not take more than little over an hour, can get quite challenging when there's a strike on. It wasn't too bad however, and I actually arrived too early.
Sveiby's speech really was worth getting up early, no doubt about Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-845462962002-11-14T14:30:00.000-08:002002-11-14T14:30:11.230-08:00An art-convention selling brushes and paint
Today was a motivating day. After struggling through the tube-system, with the Picadilly line out of service due to the fire-fighter strike, and taking the bus from Finsbury Park up to the venue, I met up again with the same lady I already talked to shortly yesterday. Then, as today, we just happened to walk from the busstop to the main entrance at the Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-844902262002-11-13T13:34:00.000-08:002002-11-13T13:34:02.310-08:00My first impressions of KM in Europe 2002
Some quotes that sparked my attention (I’ll expand on it after my return)
Dr. Panagiotis Damaskopoulos of Insead talked about the causal links between knowledge and innovation.
His proposition is that the basic unity of the economy is no longer the company, but the network it resides in.
Organisational capital then is the (quality of) relationships Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-843605212002-11-11T05:26:00.000-08:002002-11-11T05:26:09.126-08:00Managers don't realise they're rolemodels
In the latest issue of Management Team, a Dutch magazine, I found a short interview with Muel Kaptein, professor of management studies at the Erasmus University, and also consultant with KPMG. He recently wrote a book called "the sincere manager" in Dutch (The Balanced Company: A Theory of Corporate Integrity in English), in which he explores the Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-843552482002-11-11T01:54:00.000-08:002002-11-11T02:06:33.000-08:00A course on Blogging?
Xi:blue offers a course on Essential Web Journaling, which seems to entail not much more than learning to install and use Userland's Radio. And that for about 500 euro's.
I don't know, I think I've learned more this last week by reading the Blogger FAQ, and looking how other blogs were made, than I could learn in these two days Xi:blue is offering. But hey, maybe it wouldTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-843185432002-11-10T08:21:00.000-08:002002-11-10T08:25:19.000-08:00KM Europe 2002, part II
Here's my rough schedule for the KM Europe 2002 convention, at "Ally Pally", or Alexandra Palace, London from Nov. 13th-15th:
Wednesday, November 13th
11:50 - 12:35 Passages from organisational knowledge to innovation
13:00 - 17:00 Workshop by Cezanne Software
Thursday, November 14th
12:10 - 12:55 Virtual community, real world problems (by British Telecom)
13:00 - 16:00 Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-843146832002-11-10T05:56:00.000-08:002002-11-10T06:08:28.000-08:00Business' Prime Directive: Awareness and explicit choice?
Sometimes different observations lead to the same conclusion. Or maybe it's just that these observations are made because they fit an intuitive conclusion that was already brewing somewhere in the recesses of my mind, where there always seems to be a lot of brewing going on.
The first of these observations came when David Gurteen held an Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-841240592002-11-06T09:11:00.000-08:002002-11-06T11:16:43.000-08:00KM in Europe 2002
Starting a week from now on Wednesday Nov. 13th, the Knowledge Management in Europe 2002 Congress will take place in Alexandra Palace in London.
I will be attending for the full three days. To me it is primarily an opportunity to meet with the people I have been discussing KM with at KnowledgeBoard since last May. I like the way the European KM forum, through KnowledgeBoard andTonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-840732922002-11-05T11:16:00.000-08:002002-11-05T11:16:35.860-08:00Just moved in, and moving out again?
I started this blog only a day ago, and already I am thinking about moving. Not to quit blogging. As yet, the responses of others have been positive, and it is way too early to draw any conclusions on this experiment my blog is.
No, it's the service of blogger that's the point. Not that I think I have much ground to complain, as this is of course a free Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-840510562002-11-05T01:15:00.000-08:002002-11-05T07:42:55.000-08:00On the role of trust in knowledge management
In my recent article on the role of trust in knowledge management, I discussed trust as an action. Something I do to jump over uncertainties in decisions or choices I have to make. In another thread on the same topic, Gary Lawrence Murphy plays devil's advocate and challenges this view of trust as an action, as a verb.
I begged to disagree with him Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915777.post-840016192002-11-04T05:07:00.000-08:002002-11-05T01:17:41.000-08:00My first Blog-entry
Hi there,
In recent weeks I have come across several blogs with professional aims. Now I'm trying my hand at blogging myself.
This even though I don't really know if this is added value for me or not.
During the last couple of days I discussed blogs with David Gurteen, Lilia Efimova and Sebastien Paquet, who all have their own blogs.
I asked them why they blog, and what it Tonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10724486867175762977noreply@blogger.com