KI-Network

There IS a killer application, it's one that is proven in practice, and delivers results every time, if applied wisely. In some cases - multi-million dollar results. In fact, as I started compiling my list of value delivery through KM, I found that most of the success stories related to this one application. And it is not a software application at all. It is an application of minds. It's the Peer Assist.

while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post.

Cool presentation tool

A wiki on summaries of mainstream books - fiction & non-fiction.

A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping these technologies would produce (a) improved internal productivity, and (b) better relationships with customers. They have achieved neither objective. So they're stuck with some very large and expensive lemons, three in particular:

Nancy Dixon focuses on the people side of knowledge management. Our most effective knowledge sharing tool is conversation. The words we choose, the questions we ask, and the metaphors we use to explain ourselves, are what determine our success in creating new knowledge, as well as sharing that knowledge with each other.

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The focus is technology developments but a good resource if you are interested in industry trends and what's new from leading enterprise software providers

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This is a blog sponsored by Intuit to promote their Quickbase product and yes I am a contributor. However the blog has a diverse array of contributors tackling the topic "The Future of Work" from many angles. The blogging team includes Bill Ives who you may know as a blogger from his Portals and KM blog and also Patti Anklam who also posts to her home blog "Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness" Patti is a serious social network analyst having worked with Rob Cross at IBM's IKO in the late 90's.

Fred Wilson- A VC- Musings of a VC in NYC Fred is a long term NYC based VC who funded some of the late 90's Silicon Alley ventures. I noted somebody mentioned Seth Godin above. As Flatiron Partners Fred Wilson was a funder behind Seth's Yoyodyne online marketing company that was sold to Yahoo. On Fred's blog is a post about "Disruption" and link to the video of a presentation recently given at Google surveying industries and where opportunities for investing in disruption exist. It is highly recommended viewing for a look ahead.

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Victor Newman says.... Just as managers make sure that we do things right, leaders are responsible for ensuring that we do the right thing. Similarly, knowledge management helps us do things better, but strategic knowledge management (SKM) makes sure we invest in doing the right things for the right reasons.....

Zen Habits is one of the Top 100 blogs on the Internet, and covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.

Future Changes is Stewart Mader. He wrote the book on wiki adoption, and he has led or advised enterprise-wide wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, small and medium size companies.