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KM practices. Which KM practices are the most important in your opinion? I've been giving this some thought and have this short list: Facilitate conversations – this is where connections are made, trust is built, new knowledge emerges. Fostering deep dialog, creating a meeting space to surface issues, heighten awareness, exchange ideas, increase understanding and… Continue reading KM practices

Knowledge managers.  The knowledge manager may well be an endangered species as the KM meme fades and firms rush to stay abreast of complexity, social networking and chaos theory. So exactly what did a knowledge manager do and what were they responsible for? Strategic issues related to individual and group networking & learning, business intelligence,… Continue reading Knowledge managers

The Paperless Hacker. By Tim O'Reilly Jason Hunter's latest article on oreillynet.com, “Personal Document Management Made Easy,” is a great example of my thesis that “alpha geeks” tell us something about the shape of the future. Jason describes how he's done away with filing paper documents by scanning everything and keeping the scanned documents in… Continue reading The Paperless Hacker

Harnessing Collective Intelligence. By Tim O'Reilly I've long made the assertion that one of the central differences between the PC era and the Web 2.0 era is that once the internet becomes platform, rather than just an add-on to the PC, you can build applications that harness network effects, so that they become better the… Continue reading Harnessing Collective Intelligence

Zimbra Adds Offline Use of Their Productivity Apps. By Brady Forrest Zimbra announced at Web 2.0 yesterday that they were going to add an offline mode to their AJAX office suite. Any actions done offline will be stored in the local cache until you are back online. This will work for their email, calendaring, contacts,… Continue reading Zimbra Adds Offline Use of Their Productivity Apps

Democrats may use probes to force policy shifts. WASHINGTON — The new Democratic leaders in Congress are likely to move quickly to use their investigative powers as a key lever to force changes in the administration's policies on the Iraq war and domestic spying, according to congressional staff members. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Hub's ballot practice illegal, Galvin says. Boston's longstanding election policy of stocking polling places with only enough ballots for half the registered voters violates state law, Secretary of State William F. Galvin said yesterday in a letter lambasting the city for its handling of Tuesday's election. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

It's Patrick in a romp. Completing one of the most extraordinary political journeys the state has seen, Democrat Deval L. Patrick won a landslide victory yesterday over Republican Kerry Healey and two other candidates to become the first African-American elected governor of Massachusetts. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary After Big Election Gains for Democrats. Robert Gates, former head of the C.I.A., was nominated to replace a Cabinet member who came to symbolize President Bush’s controversial Iraq policy. By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JIM RUTENBERG. [NYT > Home Page]

Tomboy note searching just got easier. I spent a bunch of time yesterday hacking on an improved search interface for Tomboy. I'm still waiting to get “approval” to check this in, but some variation of it will hopefully make it into Tomboy soon. I wish all apps would adopt this style of searching instead of… Continue reading Tomboy note searching just got easier