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Oh good grief…

Posted in Culture, KM, Tradition, Web2.0 on 10 October 2008 | 7 Comments »

I think I am grateful to Mary Abraham for pointing me in the direction of Venkatesh Rao’s densely argued article opposing knowledge management and social media. In fact, it made me as despondent as Charlie Brown faced with yet another opportunity to kick Lucy’s football. This is not a generational war: it is a battle of the [...]

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Prescriptivity and appropriateness

Posted in Knowledge, Language, Lawyering, Learning, Rationality, Tradition on 30 September 2008 | 2 Comments »

One of the links in my blogroll is to Language Log, which is home to some of the most rigorous blogging on the internet. As its name indicates, it deals with language and linguistics, but in the broadest possible sense. So its authors have taken on sex differences and biological determinism, science journalism, lolcats, and [...]

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Some things about KM that we now know are wrong

Posted in Culture, Irrationality, KM, Tradition on 16 September 2008 | 7 Comments »

There are a few things that act as talismans for traditional knowledge management. Here’s a couple of blog posts undermining commonly-held KM superstitions.
Superstition 1: We need an expertise directory
This sounds like a great idea. Clearly “know-who” is an essential part of good knowledge management. Without it, how can we justify David Weinberger’s claim that “A [...]

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Back again

Posted in Culture, History, KM, Personal, Tradition on 8 September 2008 | No Comments »

There’s been another long gap in transmission. This time I can blame work followed by a holiday in Ireland and catching up with work again for the past week.
(I don’t know how some people manage to find the time to blog as much as they do. I only do this from home — because access [...]

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The new Glossators

Posted in KM, Lawyering, Tradition on 30 July 2008 | No Comments »

Today I stumbled across Paul Maharg’s account of last April’s KM Legal conference (Day 1 | Day 2). I was glad I did: having helped the conference organiser to design the programme, I was very cross that I couldn’t get to it because of clashing commitments. In particular, I had wanted to see Paul again [...]

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Perspectives on different traditions

Posted in Lawyering, Tradition on 28 April 2008 | No Comments »

Reading Legal Week this morning, I was impressed by an article drawing on reports from a journalist embedded with the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team. Ben Hallman, who is a reporter with The American Lawyer, spent ten days looking at how Iraq’s civil justice system is being restored.
In the middle of his account, one sentence leapt [...]

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Who am I?

Posted in Culture, KM, Learning, Management, Tradition on 21 April 2008 | No Comments »

Patrick Lambe has neatly joined Dave Snowden’s challenge to the traditional MBA with a thoughtful piece by Olivier Amprimo of Headshift on the consequences of corporate specialisation. All of these are worthy of reading. For me, however, the post that brings everything into perspective makes no reference to any of these. It is Shawn Callahan’s [...]

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My mate, not yours

Posted in Clients, Culture, KM, Tradition on 3 April 2008 | 1 Comment »

In my last post, I said that I wanted to refer constructively to something that Doug Cornelius wrote in his series of blog posts on Household KM. Here it is.
Doug’s posts are an interesting review of the tools available to manage domestic calendars, contacts, libraries and information. I found his take on contact management particularly insightful. As [...]

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Recognition and understanding

Posted in Irrationality, Rationality, Science, Tradition on 18 March 2008 | 2 Comments »

It is important to us that people listen to our needs, understand them and adapt to them. We know this about ourselves, but very few of us can naturally empathise with others. One reason for this, I think, is that human beings are almost infinitely complex and yet our brains cannot cope with this variety.
So [...]

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The opening gambit

Posted in Blog, Tradition on 31 January 2008 | No Comments »

This is a bit more sudden than I expected it to be. I have been thinking of blogging outside the firewall for some time, and had hoped to be able to build up a body of posts before putting my head above the parapet. One of the reasons for reticence is that I hadn’t identified [...]

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