Posts in the Technology category RSS feed for this section
Arrows and blocks

What you need to know about Knowledge Management (Pt. 2)

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 [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 }
Arrows and blocks

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 [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 }
WordPress logo

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 [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

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 [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 }