On 6th Annual Identity Management Forum

Just a quick conference alert to the 6th Annual Identity Management Forum to be held in Sydney, 28-30 November 2007. And a disclaimer - I do not receive advertising fees for my conference alerts!

On commenting in digital space

Last week in Image and Data Manager Online, there was a news report about a company suing the owner of a popular technology online discussion site here in Australia, called Whirlpool.
The report said that an accounting software company, 2Clix, was suing Whirlpool for allowing negative comments about the company’s software to be made on two online threads.
Another [...]

On tagging

I have been giving some attention of late to tagging, partly because of some research I am doing for university, and partly in response to a challenge Matt Moore gave me a while back to start putting some of my photos up on Flickr.
A key feature of Flickr is tagging, but tagging has become much more [...]

On tailoring content in the world of Web 2.0

I gave my talk and presentation yesterday in Sydney at the Ark Group conference, Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0. My topic was on “tailoring content for Web 2.0″. The focus was on setting the scene for content within a Web 2.0 world (blogs, online collaboration, podcasting, wikis, and social networking) within the enterprise. Instead of [...]

On collaboration in the world of web 2.0

I will be speaking this coming Thursday at the Ark Group conference, Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0.
If there are any of you in blogland reading this post and attending this conference, please make yourself known to me on Thursday!
I intend to have a short write-up for this blog after the conference, so stay tuned.

On identity and social networking

I was reading a great Wharton knowledge article by Jonah Berger and Chip Heath on identity, from a marketing perspective. The article, From cool to passe’: identity signaling and product domains, looked at “how consumers use products to signal membership in social groups, but swiftly abandon those same products when the original message is diluted as other [...]

On information architecture

One of the important professional interests, if not actual partnerships, that knowledge management (KM) practitioners need to maintain, is in the realm of information architecture (IA). In that regard, I certainly appreciated the informative blog post from Peter Morville defining the state of information architecture and his thoughts about its future.
Interestingly, Peter identified a tension in definition between IA and interaction design, a [...]

On digital identity (2)

Matt Moore has a couple of recent blog posts on digital identity that pose some interesting thoughts.
The first, the technology of the secret, discusses secrets and what they represent, especially in terms of knowledge sharing and trust. Matt rightly says that we need to ”manage our identities in ever more complex ways. And they make our secrets [...]