August 2004 archives

August 21, 2004 by Patti

The Collar of the KM Coat

I received an email from a very weak tie yesterday. Bijoy Goswami is former Nortel employee who knew someone named Greg (whom I can’t remember with only a first name for a clue) who referred Bijoy to me. Bijoy noticed that Rob Cross gave me an acknowledgment in The Hidden Value of Social Networks, and [...]

August 20, 2004 by Patti

Innovation & Technology

I’m catching up on the reading pile, mostly looking at strategic directions in knowledge management technologies for a client report, and came across a couple of articles my friend David Hartzband (VP for collaboration at EMC/Documentum/eRoom). He summarizes the Software 2004 conference managed by Sand Hill associates, and one of the insights he reports from [...]

August 19, 2004 by Patti

Expertise location via Buddy Lists!

Here’s a great bit from Technology Research News passed on to me from a knowledge broker extraordinaire at one of my client sites: Messenger taps social nets describes research at the University of Michigan in the development of a tool that constructs expertise profiles for people on instant messaging buddy lists. If you and all [...]

August 3, 2004 by Patti

AOK Connect

KM Magazine arrived yesterday. Jerry Ash, who has created an awesome conversational space in the AOK network, is on the cover. Full PDF available. Coincidentally (or not), I was Googling “social network analysis” and “Tacit” (for Tacit the company), and discovered that Jack Vinson blogged my entry on Dennis’ Smith’s article. I know Jack through [...]