October 2004 archives

October 30, 2004 by Patti

Declaration of success

The Boston KM Cluster was a great success. My partner-in-design, Nat Welch, and I had nothing but positive feedback and responses from attendees. Getting something like together is always an exercise in generation and closure. Generation because you have an idea about how things go together. In this case, once all the topics emerged, we [...]

October 14, 2004 by Patti

Perspective with Alacrity

My friend Karl Hakkarainen (who blogs at )pointed me to a wonderful article on Life with Alacrity about the history of social software. It roots the idea of using computers as tools to support individual memory, people-to-people, content-to-content, and people-to-content connection and coordination. From idea to experiment to practice, the language has changed and evolved [...]