Michael Specht

A Knol is a unit of knowledge, well according to Google that is. Their new information source has been moved into public Beta. Basically Knol is sort of like Wikipedia but each entry is authored by a single individual who has complete editorial control. Google provides the following outline in the help:
So what subjects can [...]

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For me one of the keys to being a productive knowledge worker is having access to the right information at the right time. This gets even more important as workers begin to self-publish, basically share their knowledge, behind the firewall using blogs, wikis, forums etc. A organisation needs to leverage this data to turn it [...]

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Something I have been struggling with for about 18 months is information overload, who hasn’t, especially with regard to email and RSS feeds and to a lesser extend podcasts.
To date my method of coping has been to unsubscribe (I removed about 500 blog feeds) or ignore the stream of information (which I do with email [...]

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I am currently on day 3 of a self imposed Twitter/Facebook/social network ban so I kind of feel I am disconnected from a community I have heavily been involved in for over a year. Why is a long story and I’m not sure how much longer it will go on for.
Today I found a great [...]

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Over the last few weeks I have been preparing a presentation on Web 2.0 and Social Networks to give to a group of HR professionals. The topics I plan to cover are:-

Provide a quick overview of what this all is
How they help employees use them for good not evil
How Enterprises can use the tools, [...]

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Over the last couple of days I have been looking for inspiration on what to blog about, so I started researching a couple of topics on communication, collaboration and employee engagement. Funny enough I found some of my old posts, so I thought instead of writing something new I would give you “5 Blasts from [...]

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Denham Grey introduces me to the idea of personal knowledge management, now I have known about the concept for a while but ever really understood what it was. He also lists several PKM tools in a previous post which in reviewing them makes me think of some of the previous topics discussed on the [...]

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In his post on knowledge management and social bookmarks Denham Grey asks “So how exactly are you using social bookmarking?”
We used it at BlogTalk Downunder to track content generated during the conference, a great use. Personally I have not got into using tags to mine knowledge, maybe I should…. The new Technorati Beta [...]

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For the last 3 months I have been wanting a Tablet PC, specifically the Toshiba M200, and since returning from BlogTalk Downunder this want has increased. Why? Firstly I got to see Mick Stanic’s up close and personal and I got to use the iBurst wireless broadband.
My personal view is Tablet [...]

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I was reading Jeremy Zawodny’s trashing of Google over their new MyGoogle service and Jeremy mentioned FUSE. Jeremy quotes John Battelle from back in April:-
Weiner calls his vision FUSE (for Find, Use, Share, and Expand) and it’s an apt metaphor - using search to fuse a myriad of services and applications, all of [...]

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