TON'S INTERDEPENDENT THOUGHTS |
||
|
My current thoughts repository on the web 
Interdependent Thoughts also available in Dutch and German
(Nederlands)
(Deutsch)
Links:
Knowledge Board Blogtalk Conference Ryze Blogalization Blogs I read:
(f) : met face to face
My microblogosphere:
Technorati Cosmos Blogstreet Neighbourhood Blogdex track Organica Daypop Blogtree GeoURL
Search my blogosphere:
Archives
May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002
|
Howard Rheingold on Information StrategiesNext to the seminar and reception with Howard Rheingold we enjoyed last Thursday afternoon we also joined a more small scale workshop with Howard Rheingold on Friday morning. Our little Blogwalk group made up about half of the audience I think. In a group conversation setting we discussed several topics. One of the more interesting things to me was when Howard Rheingold showed us the tools he uses in his personal information strategy. For the bloggers in the room there really were not many surprises. RSS, BlogLines, Del.icio.us, all with actual screenshots, came up. He stresses weblogs as his community filters for information. Most people I talk to blogs about seem to think they're publications, sources next to other sources like papers, where I see them as conversations. Howard spends some 4 hours in the morning engaging with his on-line community and sources of information, after which he spends the afernoon writing. He does keep an eye on IM and e-mail in the afternoon though.  What struck me is how little we actually talk about our info-strategies, and info-diet, and the tools we use for it. Especially tools can be almost a secret thing in organisations that have rigid rules to what people are allowed to use on their desk- and laptops. My laptop is stuffed with different tools, most of them Open Source or freeware, that did not come with the pre-installed proprietary environment. My company is ok with it, but does not expect me to ask for support on the stuff I install myself. If my colleagues are convinced of the value of a tool, it will be added to the standard provided and serviced mix of tools we use however. Talking about how we do things, hunt and gather info, filter stuff, feed it into our workflow, pick the relevant items to act upon etc. is something we should do a lot more I think. Anyone who wants to compare notes? Permalink | TrackBack | WaypathComments
Ton, that's an interesting point you raise - What kind of knowledge work routines are "out there"? Which partial routines are shared, which are idiosyncratic? How do different tools yield similar routines, how do different people integrate the same tool in different routines? To me, there seem to be some connections to Lilia's/Aldo's work on blogging practices; I also think it was in their paper that I found the reference to a paper by Christine A. Halverson (2004): The Value of Persistence: A study of the creation, ordering and use of conversation archives by a knowledge worker. (pdf) Thanks Jan for the pointer! Ton, I've been thinking about this too - it grew for me out of the PKM workshop and being asked "So how do *you* do manage your own knowledge?". This week I started work on a new project and on the first day I drafted a blog entry about how I was organising myself to do it, planning to continue as the project progressed. I haven't published it yet because I became a bit jittery about what I could appropriately say about the project in public, especially knowing that the client is a fairly regular reader of my blog. Having read your post, I think I see a way through it - to keep the focus entirely on me and my own strategies rather than the project or environment I happen to find myself in at the moment. So thanks for the inspiration and look out for some stuff on Perfect Path in the next couple of days. Posted by: Lloyd at November 19, 2004 04:42 PMI am tryin to collect a list of tools for knowledge workers here: I do not have a category for blogging-enhancers or social-software-style. Very interesting to me is if there are certain usage strategies that are especially connected with these tools. Posted by: Oliver Wrede at December 8, 2004 09:11 PMThis kind of analysis might fit within the Special Issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology on: “Patterns for Collaborative Systems” - https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=76 Posted by: Seb at December 13, 2004 09:19 PM |
Powered by
|
Lilia Efimova
Martin Roell
Gary L. Murphy
Sebastien Paquet
Sebastian Fiedler
Frank Patrick
Thomas Burg
Ross Mayfield
Terry Frazier
David Weinberger
Dina Mehta
Rick Klau
Stuart Henshall
Elizabeth Lawley
Spike Hall
Andy Boyd
Phil Wolff
Matt Mower
Jim McGee
Olaf Brugman
Andrea Janssen
David Gurteen
John Moore
Elmine Wijnia
Chris Macrae
David Pollard
Julian Elvé
David Buchan
Denham Grey
Judith Meskill
Ian Glendinning
George Por
Paul J Kelly
