Author: Vince Kimball

Rick Klau (and others) on De-Captivating Markets. I enjoyed Rick Klau's post today on IT innovation in the next decade is worth a careful read and tracing back to the linked sources. Rick covers a lot of important territory, as does Doc Searls, whose De-Captivating Markets inspired Rick's post. At the root of both posts… Continue reading Rick Klau (and others) on De-Captivating Markets

The Current State of KM in Law Firms. Cindy Chick has written an important article called “West KM/Lexis TotalSearch or Enterprise Search Engine?“ The short article does an excellent job of spelling out the differences between the West and Lexis approaches (tend to be more useful for litigation practice) and enterprise search engines. such as… Continue reading The Current State of KM in Law Firms

Tinderbox Weekend Trip Report. Lisa Firke has posted a fine trip report on Tinderbox Weekend. ” The whole weekend was like this, really. The best moments were those sudden glimpses into other people's Tinderboxen. I am grateful to Rosemary Simpson of Brown for unseating a very fixed prejudice against MS Word, showing me that the… Continue reading Tinderbox Weekend Trip Report

Blogging at a new level With the release of his new blog, friend and associate, Greg Fisk, has just raised the bar on what an aesthetically pleasing blog site can look like. Greg and I first started working together many years ago, when the web was still in its infancy and companies were still trying… Continue reading Blogging at a new level

Xamlon reaches beta 4. Xamlon, the product (and company) of my old friend Paul Colton, just reached Beta 4. As I wrote before, Xamlon is a XAML engine that runs on Windows 98 through Windows XP. And XAML is the user interface development language for Longhorn.In addition to the new beta release, Xamlon-the-company now has… Continue reading Xamlon reaches beta 4

Guest Host: Ideas Are Free.  Next week, Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder will join contributors to FC Now as guest hosts. The authors of Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations, Robinson and Schroeder wrote the Readers' Choice selection for June. Robinson teaches at the Isenberg School of Management… Continue reading Guest Host: Ideas Are Free

Well, I finally have an internet connection again.  Since the thunderstorms of Monday night, I've been dealing with internet withdrawal.  Not a pretty sight.

For those about to blog, we salute you. In my InfoWorld column this week (“Blogging behind the firewall“), I write about a small but really amazing outpouring of information-sharing in InfoWorld's IT department since we started a group weblog a few months ago. After I filed my column, I came across a Jon Udell column… Continue reading For those about to blog, we salute you

Project Logging. Blogging Behind the Firewall “Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we’re beginning to see more tangible benefits as we’ve begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors…. Since then, my team has been using the blog-driven IT roadmap in weekly staff meetings as a platform to discuss the initiatives… Continue reading Project Logging