On breakfast, lunch, and tea

There are a number of ways in which information and knowledge can be disseminated and exchanged, including breakfast, lunchtime or evening meetings. These meetings can be internally or externally based. Organisations, like the Society for Organisational Learning Australia (SOLA) for example, have run morning information sessions for members featuring a special guest speaker. I first heard Dave [...]

On snack drama

Expect to hear more about snack drama in the future. Snack drama represents a niche product that will entertain a growing subscriber base using mobile communication platforms. Consumers’ increasing use of mobile communication for news and entertainment will provide the market momentum for this new communication product. And time poor consumers will support the snack drama format if the content is [...]

On harvesting text

In most organisations there is a plethora of text that is composed, written and sent out. Sometimes the text circulates and sometimes text comes back. We take text for granted because it is so ubiquitous. But in the digital world we can do more with text.
A recent blog post from Nancy White highlighted some techniques for making [...]

On tagging and the enterprise (and RSS)

I want to conclude my blog summary from the presentation I gave last week on tagging and the enterprise. The previous three entries should be read in conjunction with this instalment, if you haven’t followed the story so far…
I used IBM’s dogear as an example of an enterprise using tagging within the firm. However, instead of me explaining all about [...]

On writing abstracts

One of the illuminating insights I came across during the summer break was in relation to abstracts. Now abstracts are common in the professional journal literature as a summary of the full text article, a skill in itself with definite requirements. Abstracts are also written to collate information about articles in particular subjects for subscription-based (often online) bibliographic services. [...]

On content convergence and integration

It’s December and time for a quick conference alert (who knows what Santa might bring!) - Content Convergence and Integration 2008 will be held in in Vancouver, Canada, on 12-14 March. The conference topics include:
Social media and customer communications
New technologies for a new day
Mobile information
Planning for a world of social media
Digital assets and copyright
DAM Case study in [...]

On word farms

I was alerted to this article from The Guardian (thanks, Gerry) on word farms - “The growing number of websites that mix and match low-quality articles produced by amateurs in order to generate traffic”.
The article raises a good question: how important is content or marketing in driving revenues on the web? Any thoughts, please make a comment.

On actKM Conference 2007

Yesterday I attended day two of the actKM conference in Canberra. The day was full of thoughtful speakers and enjoyable conversation. The venue was in an unpretentious room located in the lovely grounds of University House at the Australian National University.
David Gurteen opened the morning session with an overview of a range of social networking tools and technologies. David emphasised [...]

On knowledge management - Dave Pollard

Every now and then I want to highlight a blog post that I have read that has really made me think. First up is Dave Pollard.
I first met Dave Pollard after a presentation he gave last year at the Online Information conference in London (Online Information is on again later this year). The presentation was a [...]

On tagging (2)

I previously made some comments about tagging. I believe tagging has its place as does controlled vocabularies. John Udell’s blog post yesterday on tagging and foldering made the point that: “On the desktop as well as on the web, we’re in the midst of a long transition from container-based to query-based storage and retrieval”.
In container-based storage one [...]

On commenting in digital space (2)

Last week I raised the issue about a possible legal claim against the provider of an online discussion forum over comments made within that forum.
Today, the Australian Financial Review reports that in another case, an individual who posted discriminatory comments on an online chat group was liable under the Racial Discrimination Act but that the [...]

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.