I use my blog as a personal knowledge management tool. Every day I collect up 20-30 blog posts, web pages, PDF files etc to read. They are all there on my Tablet PC as different tabs in Maxthon, the following morning I read them and then for those that need...
For the last few weeks I have been testing an iMate SP5, I had high hopes for it thinking it would be a great complement for my TC1100 Tablet. My main requirements (with scores) were as follows: small enough to take anywhere ***** worked great as a phone ***** seamlessly receive...
Microsoft have just published a set of short videos that give a great introduction of the new features in Exchange 2007, definitely worth checking out. Most of these videos use OWA, for more information on Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 check out the better together site. I liked the unified messaging videos...
I must have been asleep during May because I missed the announcement of this tool, which is an add-on to Office SharePoint 2007 and also includes a client component that allows an individual to control the information from their local Email folders and IM that they want to submit to SharePoint...
Activity centric computing is central to IBM’s personal knowledge management and collaboration vision and this paper lays out some of the underlying concepts that we will hopefully see start to emerge in the Hannover release. The following snippet from the paper lays out the challenge IBM is trying to address: The...
Rob Boothby has written yet another excellent paper on the subject of web office, which is his term for a collection of web based tools which are rapidly disrupting established business systems for knowledge workers, key elements of the toolkit include not surprisingly blogs, wikis, social networking, search, podcasting/event recording,...
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to come across a recorded talk by Thomas Malone on the future of work. Tom is a great speaker and conveys his key messages very clearly, and the implications of the message is definitely important for anyone working on personal knowledge...
A couple of days ago I wrote a post that discussed the importance of considering blogs and Wikis as a complementary pair technologies. Today I came across this great description of a blog on Rod Boothby’s blog: a blog is an entire CMS implementation for one person, available free and at the...
Larry takes issue with the fact that people always talk about “Blogs and Wikis” at the same time when in fact they are are very different. To further the point Larry quotes Tim Bray who said in this post “I don’t think blogs are really a new thing in the...
A study was conducted in a software engineering company, which was already above the norm in terms of efficiency. The Trial consisted of 7 teams who were co-located compared with the rest (more) who used audio, video and application sharing. The co-located teams averaged double the output and reduced time...