Found a fascinating Seattle Times magazine article from last November 28. "Life Interrupted" wonders about the "cognitive overload" of our highly efficient connected age.
"Technology helps connect us to friends and, on occasion, soul mates. It prevents phone tag. It sorts and recalls massive amounts of information, simplifies writing, and even aids those who want to mellow out by working from the boonies," writes Richard Seven.
Here are some of the desktop search tools I've been looking at for the February feature in KM World. So far I think the list is more exploratory than exhaustive. We will be publishing a fairly extensive survey comparing a number of features across this lists.
I'm curious about any user experiences with some of the lesser-known applicatations, and if anyone knows of others worth looking at?
I'm wrapping up a feature on desktop search tools for KM World magazine. It seems to me that there are three lessons from evolution that might easily apply to desktop search species as an emerging genus of KM tool: divergence, convergence and interdependence.
New research is calling into question the impact of affect, or mood, on creativity. In some cases bad moods can contribute to on-the-job creativity?
Metasearch engine Dogpile has upgraded its platform with sophisticated query intelligence to intuit the intentions behind a search. They have also added newsfeeds so that results will include up-to-the-minute news reports.
ScanSoft has released version 8 of its speech recognition solution Dragon NaturallySpeaking, promising “Unprecedented accuracy improvements, expanded enterprise functionality, and new ease-of-use features.”
Readers will know that I write frequently of the ability for voice recognition tools to more easily capture, digitize and make searchable spontaneous ideas and conversations, so I'll be interested to see what Dragon has built into the new release.
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Rumored for some time now, Google released its own version of a personal index and search program. Google Desktop Search will search for email, files, web history, and instant message chats and integrate the results with hits from the web. While the tool itself isn't likely to be as powerful as other applications in this category, it may give personal search a boost up the adoption curve.
An article in Sunday's New York Times, "Saved, and Enslaved, by the Cell," wonders about the downside of wireless ubiquity.
In recent months a growing number of experts have identified and begun to study a distinct downside in that: cellphone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us.
In June, Olympus introduced the DS-4000, latest in a long line of incredibly useful little digital recording devices.
"an extremely flexible world-class audio recording device with several Olympus "firsts" that can dramatically enhance the workflow of all professional users who demand top recording quality and simple, reliable functionality. These Olympus innovations are housed in an attractive, ultra-compact metal body with a brushed silver finish that exhibits a sophisticated, all-business style and fits comfortably in the hand or pocket."
This essay concludes a three week "Star Series" dialogue featuring Dave Snowden and myself on the Association of Knowledgework's Yahoo discussion group. Since the conversation is sure to continue, it would be silly to think of these as closing thoughts, so by way of letting go, let me just make a new opening statement about egocentrism, distributed leadership, ba and where we go from here...
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How much our perspectives are formed and framed by multiple socio-cultural contexts depends not just on the contexts, but on our own personalities (which are, of course, also partly shaped by the environment), right? Evaluating and integrating those contexts so that new ideas emerge, I believe, goes beyond passive perspective. Actively engaging both inner and outer voices is the "responsible citizen" part of this.
I want to be very careful with my opening moves here. I’ve seen virtual communities fly apart arguing over personal knowledge management. It’s a great credit to Jerry that AOK has sustained threads on PKM for some time now with only minimal acrimony.
To me, KM can’t work without a balance—a blend, really—between individual and collective approaches. Organizational and personal agendas can’t operate at cross purposes if the whole is ever to be greater than the sum of the parts.
A project at the University of Washington's Information School has pursued lines of inquiry that are quite complementary with the concept of personal knowledge management. In this First Monday article, Bill Jones summarizes their progress so far.
Steve Barth's Personal Knowledge Management Site
This site is a sampling of my own work on the personal side of knowledge management and a survey of what others are doing in relation to PKM.
In a knowledge economy, the value of an organization derives from the intellectual capital of its knowledge workers. However, few knowledge management projects go far enough to understand or address individual priorities and processes.
Steve Barth consults to international government, NGO, academic and corporate clients. Recent work has focused on organizational learning and KM strategies in economic development and peace and security. Award-winning writer specializing in organizational intelligence and knowledge worker productivity.
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