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Entries from December 2007

Social Networks – Patti Ankram

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

I had the opportunity to see Patti Anklam speak at the Conference Board KSEN session on Social Networking and Social / Organizational Network Analysis in September. The depth of her understanding and work in this area shows well when she presents. You can find Patti in Boston or through her website. I would [...]

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Blocking social networking sites

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I continue to be curious about companies who block social networking sites. The common argument is that these sites reduce productivity as employees lolly-gag on company time checking their personal pages.
I found this post recently on Business Week that referred me to a survey done by Barracuda Networks (who sells tools for email and web [...]

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You can find me on SLAW

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Some of my longer pieces are on www.slaw.ca – once a month you can find me there. Here are two recent pieces:

A review of David Weinberger’s book – Everything is Miscellaneous.
Law and the Semantic Web – a thought piece.

I will try to keep you posted of other columns as they get posted there.

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Conference Board KSEN Meeting – September 2007

December 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I hosted (at BLG) and attended meetings with colleagues through the Conference Board KSEN group in September. This meeting was largely “in camera”; but here are some quasi-public thoughts for others. If you are in KM in Canada – you should consider joining this group. It is a fascinating collaborative group full of ideas and [...]

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Open for business

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Well world, this Blog is up and running. I am playing a bit with the design still. But stay tuned, it should be active within a few days.

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