Archives for November, 2010
by Craig Roth | November 24, 2010 | Comments Off
As I leave to eat my weight in turkey, then waddle down the aisles of my favorite retailers with a zillion other folks, this is a good time to revisit the importance of information dissemination and it’s ability to shift power structures. The Wall St. Journal reports today (“A High-Tech Edge on Black Friday”) on [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Are we heading for a time when sending emails from a normal desktop instead of a mobile device will be the exception rather than the rule? If so, maybe those ubiquitous “Sent from my iWhatever” email signatures should disappear and only specify when you send emails from an old fashioned desktop instead! In fact, I’m [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a long-time blogger I like to do what I can to help new bloggers to project the image they wish their readers to have of them. To that end, I have put together a short film to provide some advice on blogging etiquette, based on the writings of Emily Post. Since I couldn’t find [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Applying more KM and records management discipline to SharePoint is generally a good thing. But if you apply more KM discipline to SharePoint, then what do you use for the faster-moving, tacit, undeveloped information that is left? One of Zeno’s paradoxes comes to mind. Zeno stated it like this But if it exists, each thing [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Try this question during a job interview: “If I spend time at work doing personal career management activities on social sites using my mobile device, is that OK with management?” A not-yet-published Gartner study shows such mobile careering is more common than you may think. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. The study [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
LexisNexis released the results of a survey on information overload that will be a goldmine for media outlets that want to get a lot of hits by pressing the overload panic button. Stuff.co.nz has paved the way for other journalists that want to be alarmist at the expense of a balanced point of view (or [...]
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