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Portals and KM This blog shares ideas and hopes to generate discussion on enterprise 2.0, business blogs , web 2.0 New trends and technologies are covered with a switch to art, music, travel, and food on the weekends. Visit My Artsetter Online Gallery Artsetter Gallery Overview Sponsors My Other Blogs Darwin Discovery Engine Blog TVissimo – The TV Schedule Blog and knowledge management to provide value to organizations through practical applications. Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Portals and KM: Can Enterprise 2.0 Adoptions Learn Anything from ERP Implementations?

I suggested that each section in the newsletter could be a blog post (more timely, feedback) this way the newsletter becomes a digest of the blog posts over the last month, that is presented in newsletter style In another example I put together a presentation on some recommendations on how social tools can continue the conversation after an event, and how the presenters could have blogged their monthly happenings and roadmaps in a blog as a pre-cursor to the presentation …but Previously I posted on the ability for the bottom-up use of free-hosted tools as a way to bypass the usual channels to try something out…basically you don’t need permissions…this may sound anarchistic, but it’s simply true…people may not pay attention to their rogue behaviour for long, all they see is that they are able to work more productively.

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Show and Tell : Proof of Concept or Suggestion!

was involved in one example were a blog was substituted for email and attachments had no choice and it was not presented as a big deal, just a switch in tools. I recently received a survey that looked at ERP Implementation strategies

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Can Enterprise 2.0 Adoptions Learn Anything from ERP Implementations?

We have some wonderful speakers from near and far, including Victoria Ward as keynote, noted authors Terrence Gargiulo and David Drake, and presenters who have worked with stories within their organisations to effect change: the Asian Development Bank, the Ritz Carlton, the Singapore Armed Forces, to name but a few. Only Victoria’s keynote will be in a traditional presentation format, and even that is going to be full of stories. I’m very excited to be involved with Shawn Callahan and the International Storytelling Festival in organising Asia’s first storytelling conference Origins: Asia Pacific Business Narrative Conference .

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Blog>> A Storytelling Conference Fuelled by Stories

There is a web page presenting the ALIA view at [link] and more comments and links on the ALIA Blog [link] Photo by Sheila Webber: my apple blossom in sunlight, May 2010 …Tags: Continuing the information access theme .. the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Safer Internet Group are responding to a government proposal to have mandatory ISP URL filtering

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Australia & mandatory internet filtering

The following advice has been excerpted from the May/June 2010 issue of Layers Magazine , and was written by brand identity designer Andrew Sabatier . How to convince your clients they need a brand and not just a logo Explain that you should be employed to find a brand idea that will form the basis of all the company’s branding (and perhaps even future business decisions) of which a logo should only be one expression, an idea that is likely to form the basis of a the brand’s overall approach

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How to convince your clients they need a brand and not just a logo

(Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog ) We want Googlers to have a firm understanding of the threats our services face, as well as how to help protect against those threats. We work toward these goals in a variety of ways, including security training for new engineers, technical presentations about security, and other types of documentation. We also use codelabs — interactive programming tutorials that walk participants through specific programming tasks

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Do know evil

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You and site performance, sitting in a tree…

Way back in December of last year (seems like a lifetime ago) I wrote what was to be my last official blog before I took my unexpected “leave of absence” on a new trial presentation software called ” Exhibitview “. In my post I sang the praises of the simplicity of the program and probably put the livliehood of several smaller trial presentation companies at risk

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Exihibitview Revisited

So far in this series we’ve taken a look at Typographic Logos and Type and Symbol logos . Today it’s the turn of those logos which are bold enough to go without accompanying type. The third category of logo design is “symbol-only” logos

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Fundamentals of Logo Design Part 4: Symbol-Only Logos

Luis noted that he has been blogging about knowledge management for seven years and has yet to write a post on KM best practices.  The senior partners were always asking us to present our firm’s best practices in knowledge management to clients. My friend, Luis Suarez provided the post, Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work .

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Are Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Best Practices Useful?

There is evidence * that a diet which includes loads of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) can lead to serious health issues over the long term such as Metabolic Syndrome and its myriad complications, including Obesity. The consumption of HFCS has increased substantially over the past 30 years, as has the obesity rate in the US (and some other developed countries). In the popular media, documentary films like Food, Inc

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Visualizing the consequences of sugary drinks

If this was done today, the agents could report their experiences in the field using blog posts and comments, and the perpetually changing practice can be updated in the wiki…very agile. A while back the Anecdote blog mentioned that we could do without the term knowledge worker , as even routine jobs require some element of dealing with context.

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“I am knowledge worker”, says the Janitor

media present to the publishing industry. Can anyone recommend any training courses, books, or websites/ blogs ?” “It’s cool, but is it work?” That was the question question of the day last week when I visited one of Socialtext’s newer customers: Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Enterprise Microblogging for Fun and Profit

Luis noted that he has been blogging about knowledge The senior partners were always asking us to present our firm’s best practices I recently recently read a post, Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work , by my friend, friend, Luis Suarez. Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Are There Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?

give more presentations online than I do in-person and I must say that online presenting has some real advantages – backchannels; ability to send links; engaged participants who can help others; etc. now take for granted my online personal knowledge management processes, such as social bookmarking; blogging and tweeting, but these habits make online collaboration much, much easier.

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Working online is different

I’ve just sit for ADO.NET 4.0 beta exam this last Sunday, April 11 and I really liked how the exam measure the skills that really works for me in day-to-day tasks. I think the folks in Microsoft Learning has did a good job in this version of the exam. So I though it deserves a review.

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TS: Accessing Data using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.0 Beta Exam Review

His topic was “Leading in Times of Transition,” and his presentation was worth a separate blog post which you should see shortly. May 6 — Center for Information Management Studies at Babson College (aka CIMS) is presenting a workshop for its members entitled “Leading Radical Change in IT ” featuring Dorothy Yu from Gartner and Matthew Dattilo, CIO at ModusLink Global Solutions

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By the CIO, For the CIO, Of the CIO

Joan talked about how she used blogs in a face-to-face information literacy class to extend learning and make the class more engaging. Joan was a last minute addition to the lineup as my original co- presenter realized on Friday that she couldn’t make it to the conference.

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Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 2

Later this week, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson will be giving a talk at the 99% conference entitled “10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss .&# Prior to the talk, Wilson has provided a preview of his presentation , which gives his perspective on the various categories of entrepreneur: The Sole Proprietor : Matt Drudge The Partnership : Openshop Studios The Husband & Wife Team : Daily Lit The Boutique : Union Square Ventures The Federation : Allen & Co The Project : Avatar The Tour Bus : The Hype Machine Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Fred Wilson: 10 Ways to Be Your Own Boss