I have come across a frustrating number of feeds of late that put no work into their headers or feed displays. I don't understand why folks would not take every opportunity to scream who they are and what they're trying to accomplish. That's marketing 101, right? I'm going to pick on BusinessWeek's new blog, blogspotting,
Lee Lefever at Common Craft asks what's your RSS reading strategy? I think it's a good question since more and more of the content I read on-line has gone to RSS. My strategy goes like this: I have +/-175 feeds in Bloglines categorized by the subjects I'm currently pursuing (Topical, Chicago, Economics, Media, Education, Personal
In Fast Company's article Free Agent, Free Spirit, Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea says he uses voice mail as his favorite knowledge sharing tool.If Orfalea is at a Kinko's outlet and he hears about a good idea, he immediately dials into the company's voice-mail system, introduces the coworker who described the idea to him, and lets
PIM In preparation for this class, we were asked to describe our personal knowledge management (PKM) schemes. How did we organize e-mail, paper, bookmarks, files, etc.? There were, of course, a variety of answers: to do, doing, donethe 4 Ds: deal with it, delete it, delegate it, date activate itin the headin directoriesby devices such
I've seen more posts written about information overload syndrome over the past few days. Scott White at Extracting Knowledge from Data has a revealing post about information overload. I completely understand what he's saying. I lost my Internet access last night and part of me was twitchy and restless because I could feel the posts
The CEO Bloggers' Club has a list of ideas for corporate RSS feeds. I think it's fantastic. Highlights: #5. "Provide specific informational categories so people can just receive what they are most interested in." #8. "By setting up an RSS feed that captures and publishes everything that is being said about your organization online, you
Homework! I have homework for my knowledge management class, and I thought the questions were interesting enough to share with you. Unless my instructor objects, I'll post assignments here. Please add your two cents because I'm always interested in how other people manage. What does your personal knowledge space look like? How do you organize
You don't value the feeds in your readerThe feeds you're subscribed to don't meet your needsYou prefer to get information another way. It's okay to surf in the age of RSS...really. It's even okay to prefer e-mail subscriptions.You may not have the skills, time, patience, etc. to find what you need.Needed feeds may not exist...though
I find it's nice to have a few aggregator feeds in my daily mix. For Chicago, I've found Oodle (a classified aggregator, still in beta) and Topix (headlines from around Chicago). They're a useful chorus to the single notes in my feed subscriptions and give me a good idea of what's happening around town. And
This is a great flickr meme that I'm going to try -- transparent desktops.(Via Gizmodo)
