Thursday, July 04, 2002

Weblogs and Firm-Wide Knowledge Management. Here's an article I wrote a couple months ago but which was just published in the ABA's Law Practice Management magazine. Now that it's published, I can reprint it here. (Don't you love the publishing world?!) Thanks to Denise, Ernie and John for spending some time with me as I wrote it. I'm pretty happy with the results, and eager to see if any firms start using this technology for their own information-sharing efforts. Posted by Rick Klau [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 10:55:13 PM

Storyspace - Using Hypertext in the Classroom. Quote: "The National University of Singapore created its University Scholars Programme to help produce graduates who are literate in a broad range of intellectual disciplines and particularly sensitive to the commonalities, differences, and connections among those disciplines. In small seminars, students learn how to read, write, and speak clearly, effectively, and critically. To achieve these objectives, I have used a hypertext writing tool called Storyspace; in this article, I assess the advantages of this tool in my work and outline the features that make it a valuable resource for teaching and learning." Comment: One of a number of interesting Technology Source articles.  Boy, does this bring back memories.  I wonder how Storyspace has changed since 1994? [Serious Instructional Technology] 10:53:31 PM

Mindmapper for personal KM with collaborative elements.. thomas n. burg thinks mindmapping software, like mindmapper, might be an important part of the desktop toolkit. He likes their Swiss site best. I've tried it and it feels like a natural, spatial counterpart to outlining. In addition to hierarchy, mindmaps show distance, the relationship among leaves on different branches,  clearly. Part of the data visualization theme, but on a personal level. Seeing your own thoughts. Very kloglike. Now if the nodes could be linked to blog posts... [a klog apart] 10:51:24 PM

Unstructured content. Martin Butler has written a brief and to-the-point article highlighting that 80% of the content in an organisation is "unstructured", [Column Two] 10:49:31 PM

Irresponsible development efforts part II. I finished testing this bad boy today. It's actually quite fun! Go to your portal page, it shows you the clients where you're partner in charge and it tells you how many times they've visited our external web site in the last 7 and 30 days. Tomorrow I'm going to work on the add in for the client lookup utility that will include these stats for any client you choose to lookup.... Fun! And tomorrow is also the day we go firm wide with the portal! It's been released to 100 people in beta for about six weeks, so I don't expect we'll get any technical problems. Still - it's kind of fun to see the rubber hit the road. [How do you know that?] 10:49:09 PM

Mathematical Lego Sculptures [Slashdot] 10:48:28 PM

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