I want to focus on knowledge capturing in this post. It’s often overlooked as ‘self-evident’: something that doesn’t need further discussion. “We create documents and save them in a document library.” Of course, capturing information is about so much more than that. First off, I think it’s worthwhile setting up a simple conceptual framework of [...]

What you need to know about Knowledge Management (Pt. 1)
If you’re like me, then you’re coming to lofty concepts like ‘Knowledge Management’ through a technology lense: you’re a practitioner from an IT background and you’ve been tasked with addressing a business challenge you feel is much bigger than your abilities or experience. You’re not alone: for all the big business talk about the knowledge [...]

Why I’m using WordPress
Someone will ask sooner or later, so I’ll just post my reasons for using WordPress here. Quite simply, it’s the best blogging platform for public blogs, period. It’s small, elegant, easy to use and has thousands of quick-to-install, stable plugins to automate everything from metadata, web analytics and Flickr integration to collecting and posting my [...]

Laptops, laptops everywhere
Recently observed at a Starbucks inside a Chapters (sorry for the crappy Blackberrycam pic). There’s practically nobody in this picture who’s not using a laptop. It’s a little puzzling and disorienting: there used to be a time when I would have thought this was really cool. You know, wireless network access, everybody collaborating or telecommuting [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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- Klout scores are like the oil price. 1-day: +0.06, 7-day: -0.11, 30-day: -0.69. 2 hours ago
- Great profile of Regina Spektor in NYT Magazine. j.mp/L78vyY 2 days ago
- RT @JPBarlow: Google is Skynet. Pass it on while you still can. 4 days ago
- @metromorning Merci. 4 days ago
- @metromorning That last piece of music--what was it? Can't find ref. on Lula Lounge site. Stunning track! 4 days ago
- RT @sivers Smart people don't think others are stupid: sivers.org/ss 5 days ago
- @jshuey @idubbs Isn't there also some app that lets you use an iPad via bluetooth or wifi that way? Might have better battery life. 5 days ago
- I'm learning to always use a space after a forward slash ("/ ") in diagrams. Helps minimize the line-breaking pain. 5 days ago
