This fall Harvard Business pubished a book called Managing Change which contains lessons learned. Concise and engaging, it includes insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they’ve faced. The contributors share surprisingly personal anecdotes and offer authoritative and practical advice drawn from their years of [...]
Blackle.com, powered by Google Search, is Google’s “Black Google” energy-saving engine, “saving energy one search at a time.” It’s really very cool, and Google encourages setting it as your homepage (black works for me). There’s a blogpost that is sort of the wiki-esque on this reasoning how much energy is saved with the black screen. [...]
WOW! Finally, an e-reading device I’m interested in, really interested in. And as soon as the price drops a bit (it’s currently $399.99), we’ll be testing this at D&J – right, Jane? And I’m not alone. Amazon.com’s Kindle is so popular right now, it’s sold out and on back order. Weighing only 10.3 oz., with [...]
Just listening to Mary Lee Kennedy talk at an Education Institute audio seminar about Intranet Tips for Info Pros based on a recently published book she and I put together. BTW, you can buy a copy from Information Today or Amazon! OK, so much for the sales pitch. What I really wanted to highlight was [...]
I really found it interesting that two of the people I met during the last few weeks had been employed by Google for just over a year — they are apparently the veterans of the organization. 60% of the Google staff has been hired within the last year. 150 new Google staff start work every [...]
I recently met Stuart Henshall online when we had a conversation about Information Today’s media policy for KMWrld & Intranets 2007. Check out his blog as he posted a lot of comment on KMW07 conference.Addendum: also check out http://www.henshall.com/tag/kmw07/ and http://wiki.sla.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4817384 andhttp://blog.simslearningconnections.com/?p=201
As per my earlier post about KMWorld & Intranets 2007 keynotes who spoke about Second Life and set up a place to chat in SL about knowledge management and the conference, here’s a great pic of those who met to chat!
Toby Ward, President & CEO, Prescient Digital, has a terrific blog, IntranetBlog.com, with lots of tips and thoughts about intranets. He also has great tips for writing for the web. What recently fascinated me recently is his post on “Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet”. I think we’ll see lots of new intranet platforms [...]
Hear editor and author, Mary Lee Kennedy, in an Education Institute audio conference, Thursday, November 15th, 3pm EST. Rarely do information professionals hold positions responsible for driving the direction of an organization. These are the roles of functional leaders such as Marketing and Product Development, or CEOs, or heads of NGOs and government bodies. However, [...]
Today’s keynote speakers at KMWorld & Intranets, Cindy Gordon, Helix Commerce International and John Jainschigg, Director, World2World, CMP Technology, gave a great look at immersive worlds and how they relate to business opportunities. They even set up a place for people to talk in Second LIfe (SL) about KMWorld & Intranets; the keynote speakers and [...]