Knowledge Rocks!

Business week maintains a good collection of health IT articles worth browsing. You may want to check on this periodically.

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The Atlantic magazine carried an excellent article recently on electronic government. This article highlights some of the possible applications of technology to streamlining government services.

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I have started a list of expertise books on Amazon. There are several books on the subject that I have read over the last two years. I will try to keep this list up to date.
If you know of other books that should be on this list, I would love to hear from you.
/Joel

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Sir Francis Bacon was right about knowledge. It is power.
Ben Franklin agreed. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
We think our perspectives on knowledge are new. Think again.
If you have any old quotes / perspectives, please share them with us.

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I recently did a presentation as part of the KMDI alumni series for students interested in a career in Knowledge Management.
The presentation is on SlideShare (this time I edited it in advance to avoid the formatting problems).
Enjoy
How Can Studying Knowledge Media Design Help You With A Career in KM
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I recently did a presentation on Expertise Networks to colleagues in the Toronto Knowledge Workers Group.
I have posted the slides on SlideShare (if you have not explored SlideShare, I would encourage you to do so. A great place to find and share slides on almost any topic. Some of the slides are shared with a [...]

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For a number of years, I have explored a concept (or framework) I call “Information Integration“. Whether we are looking intra-organizationally, at groups or inter-organizationally, information has a number of roles to play. For example, information acts as a vector for the transfer of knowledge (boundary spanning) or as a means of coordination. But one [...]

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One of my favourite magazines, The Futurist Magazine (July-August 2008), has an interesting article (“The 21st-Century Writer“) as the cover story. I was fascinated by this examination of knowledge media and its impact on the publishing industry. The article was reporting on a conference in  February — in midtown Manhattan — publishing magnate and [...]

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In January, Business Week ran an article about how cosmetics group L’Oréal uses an online strategy game to position itself as a “savvy recruiter”. This is part of a bigger strategy to develop relationships early with marketing students. The article says:
“In addition to the games, which attract more than 50,000 students each year, [...]

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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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