[This cross-posted from Communities and Collaboration blog] I have developed a number of Knowledge Management (KM) strategies for various clients over the past 11 or so years, and was recently asked to revamp and update the KM strategy for a large UK public sector organization that had undergone a fairly radical restructure. Previous experience ofRead… Read more »
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The value of downtime
I’ve had a really exciting weekend. I had a new friend, David Hammond, come over for a brainstorming session. We initially met as part of a new venture we’ve both involved in. Saturday we started discussing how we were going to build a company from scratch. He’s taken on the role of COO for aRead… Read more »
a small bite forward
by Jamie Querubin, San Francisco Fellow 2012 This post was written in conjunction with Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s theme is food. There is more to food than what just reaches the senses. What you see on your plate encapsulates the very place and moment in which a meal is consumed. It creates aRead… Read more »
International Open Data Hackathon 2011: Better Tools, More Data, Bigger Fun
Last year, with only a month of notice, a small group passionate people announced we’d like to do an international open data hackathon and invited the world to participate. We were thinking small but fun. Maybe 5 or 6 cities. We got it wrong. In the end people from over 75 cities around the worldRead… Read more »
A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer – Day 47
Day 47 As I had mentioned yesterday I took a vacation day on Thursday so I could attend the student-parent day at my daughter’s middle school. But back at work today! And after today, I’m ready to say lock me in a dark, lonely room and hang a sign on the door with a bigRead… Read more »
The Future of Graphics in Social Media
When Facebook rolled out its tweaks to its news feed last week, I was first struck by the new larger size of images. I thought “this looks like Tumblr.” I’ll write more on Tumblr later, but the point here is that Facebook appears to have learned something Tumblr has known for a while: people likeRead… Read more »
Social Media for the Security Cleared Job Seeker, Twitter
Social media is now a common means of communicating, doing business and supporting career search and development. But as with everything there is a huge divide between those who adopted technology early and most of the rest of us. I was reminded on a recent family visit that there is still healthy skepticism, suspicion andRead… Read more »
How To Think Critically About PMP Training Providers
PMP: Suitable For Me? Hi Josh, I have Diploma with 6 years of experience. In all these 6 years, I was working as a Project Participant in project and not LEADING the project. My local PMP education provider said I am eligible for PMP. Is that true? Is 5 years of project leading experience notRead… Read more »
Wolfram Data Summit, Thomas Lee of Sunlight Labs: Measuring Influence
Today I will be live blogging from the Wolfram Data Summit. First up is Thomas Lee, Director of Sunlight Labs, Sunlight Foundation, here is an overview of his presentation: From Dollars to Ideas: New Tools for Measuring Influence Director of Sunlight Labs, Sunlight Foundation To date, analytic examinations of the problem of political influence haveRead… Read more »
Searching for the best way to spell Qadhafi
The Foreign Officehas been around for a long time, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Organisations that have survived for over 200 years (and there aren’t many of them) tend to create their own culture and language. In our case, those linguistic habits seem, to me at any rate, to be mostly initials and acronyms. I’veRead… Read more »