Google Homepage

This post is a bit of a test really, but it could well generate a new topic for the coming weeks as well. I am currently playing about with the Google Sites functionality, and I have to say, it looks like a half decent way of getting a website sorted in a short time.

I am a bit of a Google-holic I suppose, discussing it with a friend the other day we concluded that we would probably even pay for the suite of services on offer, but that should not make the potential any less appealing for other people.

Shortly I will publish the site address, if you are curious already (not that there is anything there) feel free to Google me…

Knowledge and e-mail: Codification pur sang?

In the OrganiK project we have finished most of the data collection to assess criteria for the new Knowledge Management system we aim to develop. One very interesting factor kept coming up during various visits, the use of Outlook to store work-related knowledge.

Several interviewees send e-mails to themselves with working tasks, snippets of information they picked up on and links to websites they find useful, they also send these mails on to colleagues when they think this is useful.

In essence they are using e-mail as a codification tool, effectively making knowledge available in written down format with the aim of recovering it when appropriate.

This is by no means a new ‘discovery’ MS itself is aware of the potential of Outlook as KM tool, the question then of course is; why do they not exploit that potential further?  And, as a Thunderbird user, why is Mozilla not all over this weakness in Outlook and trying to improve on it?

The interesting player in this respect is Google who, with an ever expanding toolkit, are offering brilliant ways of using Gmail as a codified information repository. Time to steal ideas Mozilla!

Time for an update!

Aaarghhh!! The last few months have been complete mayhem, I started several large drafts for this blog, but haven’t been able to finish them, now that I will have some more time soon (hopefully) I will be finishing them and hopefully be of use to the Masters Students community in particular.

Sorry for the inactivity, I don’t suppose there is a real excuse for not posting regularly, so just sue me instead