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Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 9 - 19th February 2001 |
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The Gurteen Knowledge Letter is a monthly newsletter that is distributed to members of the Gurteen Knowledge Community. You may receive the Knowledge Letter by joining the community. Membership is totally free. You may read back-copies here. THE GURTEEN KNOWLEDGE-LETTER (ISSUE 9, 19 FEBRUARY 2001) ======================================================== You may have noticed the question "What have you achieved today?" on my website banner. What's it about? Well it's primarily there to prompt me to pause and reflect on the question. Sometimes the answer is "not a lot" - so I re-ask it "What have you achieved this week". If the answer is still "not a lot" then I start to worry! At the beginning of the day - I interpret the question as "What do you intend to achieve today?". I'm concerned - if I do not have at least one key objective in mind. So let me ask you - "What have you achieved today?". I hope you are more satisfied with your answer than I am - so often with mine! CONTENTS ======== 1 - Personal Knowledge Management 2 - Groove Update 3 - Quotation: On Children & learning 4 - iOra Mobile Intranet 5 - The Coffeemachine Lecture, 28th February, London 6 - Quick Clicks 7 - Gurteen Discussion Forums 8 - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) 9 - The New Intermediaries 10 - Events PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ============================= For sometime now I have been interested in the concept of "Personal Knowledge Management" and have developed a 1 day workshop on the subject that I ran for Unicom Seminars last year and will be running again later this year. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is about taking a personal or individual perspective to Knowledge Management rather than an organizational or corporate one. PKM is a smorgasbord of principles, concepts, disciplines and tools that we can all apply as knowledge workers to improve our ability to meet our business objectives. In short - PKM is about taking responsibility for what you know, who you know - and what they know. PKM is an emerging discipline - you will not find any books on the subject or much information on the web. I recently come across an article however entitled "The Power of One" by Steve Barth which is a good introduction to the subject. He also has a lot of additional information on his site. For more on PKM including the Steve Barth article: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00028452?open&r=1&p=0 Unicom PKM Event: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0002E476?open&r=1&p=0 GROOVE UPDATE ============= Over the last 10 years I have grown up with products such as Lotus Notes and so called "collaborative technology" or CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work). This technology has fundamentally changed the way that many large organizations work and slowly but surely as company Intranets mature - it is entering the main stream. To my mind the most exciting new product since Lotus Notes is Groove from Groove Networks. Ray Ozzie - the developer of Lotus Notes - founded Groove Networks. I am convinced Groove is set to be a huge success and to have a far greater impact than Notes. I am looking for 3 or 4 people who would like to form a virtual team with me to play with Groove and more fully evaluate it. If you are interested drop me an e-mail. If would like to know more about Groove, its background and the new field of P2P (Peer-to-Peer Networking) - a good place to start is the recent article in the on-line version of Fortune Magazine. Groove Networks: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00024376 Fortune Magazine Article: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0002701A QUOTATION: ON CHILDREN & LEARNING ================================= Another of my favourite quotes from the educationalist John Holt: "Children do not need to be made to learn to be better, told what to do or shown how. If they are given access to enough of the world, they will see clearly enough what things are truly important to themselves and to others, and they will make for themselves a better path into that world then anyone else could make for them" More quotations from John Holt: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00004132 John Holt: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0000496A IORA MOBILE INTRANET ==================== I recently came across an interesting company - iOra - and their main product "iOra Mobile Intranet". Quite simply this product allows you to access your corporate Intranet from a laptop or other mobile device even when disconnected! As I have always worked with Lotus Notes/Domino that is built on this sort of replication technology I appreciate its value. All my files (Word, Excel, program files, whatever) are stored in Notes databases and are available off-line on my PCs and laptops. This includes my website which is a single Domino database. I could never ever go back to not having this capability - all my essential digital information is always right at my fingertips - on-line or off-line! iOra's technology provides this capability for any corporate intranet. But what makes it outstanding is its download speed. The replication technology behind it (called Epsilon Technology) downloads only the parts of files that have not been downloaded before. This means that when you modify files (e.g. a large Word document or PowerPoint file), or even when you create new files based on an existing file, the time to download is typically 10 to 100 times faster than downloading the whole file. It is absolutely ideal - if not essential - for mobile workers such as salespeople and consultants and its speed makes it practical. iOra website: http://www.iora.com Lotus Domino: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00046736 THE COFFEEMACHINE LECTURE, 28TH FEBRUARY, LONDON ================================================ The first Coffeemachine event of 2001 is to be given by Jim Moffat of Lotus Development on Wednesday, 28th February. Jim 's talk will demonstrate the latest technologies that Lotus has developed for the Knowledge Management market and he will give a guide to the Lotus philosophy on Knowledge Management. The doors will open from 6.00pm to allow for an opportunity to network and there will be a post lecture drink at a local venue for those interested in continuing the discussions. Location: Room 1214, Level 7, City University Business School, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican Centre, London,UK. *** The session is free and anyone is welcome to attend. *** *** RSVP to Angela Hector mailto:ahector@degw.co.uk *** Full information, including directions: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0003E056?open&r=1&p=0 Other Knowledge Management events: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000033AE?open&r=1&p=0 QUICK CLICKS ============ Mental Model Musings - Full of interesting resources on "systems thinking" and KM. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000066FE?open&r=1&p=0 The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) - US society for information professionals. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0000D802?open&r=1&p=0 Dilbert - The Dilbert website! http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000055D6?open&r=1&p=0 Philosophy Pages - Great website on Philosophy from Garth Kemerling http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00015042?open&r=1&p=0 GURTEEN DISCUSSION FORUMS ========================= I have recently implemented two new features on my website. The first is a feedback feature that allows visitors to post Comment documents against every page on the site and effectively give feedback or discuss the contents of each page. The second is a Discussion Forum feature that allows me to host many discussion forms. Both features are still being tested and incrementally improved. I'd greatly appreciate any feedback that you might have. To kick things off I have created 3 forums. Go take a look! 1. KM Forum - to discuss general KM issues. 2. PKM Forum - to discuss "Personal Knowledge Management". 3. NFO Forum - to discuss "New Forms of Organizing". Gurteen Discussion Forums: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0003AE02?open&r=1&p=0 For the Feedback feature see my home page or: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0001117E?open&r=1&p=0 UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION, DISCOVERY, AND INTEGRATION (UDDI) ======================================================== The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project led by Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft has the goal of creating a Web-based business registry containing information on what a company does, what software standards it uses, and how other companies can conduct electronic transactions with them. UDDI will be a comprehensive directory of business operating on-line and the web-based services they offer - in other words - a "Global Yellow Pages" for the web. If you take a look at the Microsoft UDDI site below - you will not only be able to find more information but also search the UDDI registry and register your own business. UDDI Community website: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0003A816?open&r=1&p=0 Microsoft UDDI website: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0003E012?open&r=1&p=0 THE NEW INTERMEDIARIES ====================== The New Intermediaries is a UK based "community of practice" for people who are working to bring about change, both those who are inside and those outside organisations. They hold regular meetings, host a website and have an on-line community to which you can subscribe. Their second event this year is an opportunity to explore how Masks, as used in the theatre, can teach us about ourselves, the roles we play and new ways to release creativity in organisations. New Intermediaries website: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00039BBA/ More information on the Masks event: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00045F66/
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