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It is about becoming a KM practitioner. Integrated and Aggregated Teaching, Training, Theory, practice, service, and research prospects. Areas of Interest: Activity (capture, index, disseminate, and utilize); Background knowledge (tacit, explicit, and cor
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Whaddya Call It? All-a-do-about terminology management
"While using multiple terms to describe one thing is common, doing so can lead to product confusion and even compliance issues in the business world. Why you should be worried about terminology management."By Donald DePalma"...That’s not to say tha...
Which flavour does knowledge have on the web?
In recent debates within the KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki project, the need arose to further refine and find a common understanding of the type of knowledge that is (ideally) managed and processed using (semantic) wikis. One of the proposals evolved ar...
What I Know for Sure...In Information Management
AIIM > Infonomics Magazine September/October 2008, by Joan Moumbleaux*Extract: "For readers of O, The Oprah Magazine, you will recognize my article title as a riff on the title of her monthly editorials. Oprah’s column ruminates on unchanging tru...
Difference Between Overstanding and Understanding?
Do You Know The Difference Between Overstanding and Understanding?Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 21:32 in connect the dots, octaves, perturbations, resonances, rhythm, sounds, spoken words, syllables"Sometimes meanings are conveyed in sound...
KM & E-Social Science - Revisited
Amazon.com WidgetsKnowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, application of Knolwedge Management (outside the corporate work culture) in the social and cultural lives of the Netizens is the focus:4th International Conference on e-Social Science philbu'...
Who's tracking your health? Paging Dr. Internet
IVOR TOSSELL, The Globe and Mail, May 23, 2008 [posted here with permission of the author]Google, pursuing its strategy of monetizing omniscience, has launched a product that will track every bit of your health information. Everyone together now: Yik...
Microsoft kills Book Search project
From Microsoft's Live Search blog:"Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be int...
Researching with Wikipedia: The Experiences of Experienced Librarians
A quote from 'Many hands make crappy work' New Jack Librarian's blog: "Its largely unsaid, but Wikipedia is thought to improve by means of a strange evolution-like process...1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, ...
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew t...
