I received notice last night that I can attend and present my PhD work at the Doctoral Consortium at the ACIS 2008 Australasian Conference on Information Systems in December (here in Christchurch). Is there a single word in the English language that simultaneously conveys the sense “hurray” and […]
I was absolutely stunned when one of the handles of my Victorinox Rolling Trevi came away when I lifted it down some stairs in San Francisco on Friday. This is not a cheap bag, and I expected a lot more from Victorinox, but there was a huge difference […]
Since I was taking three laptops to the US for my presentation last week, I needed a slim-line laptop bag to fit within the airline guidelines for taking 2 carry on pieces. I looked around a number of shops, and of the bags I surveyed, the Targus Urban […]
One of the things I purchased while in the US last week was a Staple Free Stapler (I love seeing how new things work). This little device makes a small cut through the pieces of paper you want to join, and then folds the cut under and through […]
Back in the late 1990s when I was running a Notes/Domino consulting house, I would often draw a multiple level information architecture model for clients on how to think about the Notes applications we were building for them. Some of the applications were focused on individual enablement, others […]
Opening quote on the screen: “Knowledge management was a theory or rather a Weltanschauung supported by dysfunctional technology, while social computing represents an increasingly functional technology utilizing dysfunctional and outmoded theory.“ Focus: to put some things together … to build basic theory, and then at new and emergent […]
In the penultimate presentation of the conference, save Dave Snowden on the closing keynote, Darren Gibbons is speaking on Intranet 2.0 in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps. See thoughtfarmer.com. (Stacy, a member of the ActKM List is in the room.) How did we get here? – 1994, a Web-based intranet […]
Jennifer and Matthew from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP talked about SharePoint search in a legal environment. I missed the first part of the talk because I was talking to Steve from iDatix on the exhibition floor. From what I heard, they worked out a process of crawling […]
Traction is a collection of spaces, for projects. Based on project permissions, you get to see certain things. You can have certain functions shown in certain sections, eg, a portlet. You can tag a given piece of content in any space, and then have sections to show certain […]
Steve is showing a complete document management, workflow and capture delivered through the Web. Most deployments take 14-30 days. The application is called iSynergy. – tends not to require change management work, because it is so intuitive to use. – captures paper records into a document library with […]
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