Thomas Otter, Gartner Analyst by day cyclist by night, posted on his Gartner blog last week about the new XING Competency Card and how it raises questions around the need for “complex, expensive, poorly maintained HR competency management applications behind the firewall”. The competency card allow you to add skills to your XING profile (think aContinue reading “User Generated Competency Maps”
Category Archives: Knowledge Management
Oracle Social CRM
Today I had the pleasure of meeting with a couple of the Oracle CRM team to talk about Oracle’s new social applications in the CRM On Demand product. The meeting was setup Polly Johnson from Oracle’s PR agency Kinetics, Polly was referred to my by Gareth Llewellyn from Oracle a switched on PR guy. While my mainContinue reading “Oracle Social CRM”
The business value of social networks
Tuesday night I was on a panel for the NSW Knowledge Management Forum with three others, Laurie Lock Lee, Tania Maley & Jodie Miners who was roped in as Tania was running late. I have to admit I was a bit hesitant before the event given Laurie has just completed a PhD in the valueContinue reading “The business value of social networks”
Do you have a Knol?
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 subjectsContinue reading “Do you have a Knol?”
Enterprise Search
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 itContinue reading “Enterprise Search”
Taking control of information overload
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 withContinue reading “Taking control of information overload”
Find that missing tweet
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 aContinue reading “Find that missing tweet”
Web 2.0 and HR
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 useContinue reading “Web 2.0 and HR”
Blasts from the Past
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 fromContinue reading “Blasts from the Past”
Personal Knowledge Management
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 TPNContinue reading “Personal Knowledge Management”
Michael Specht 