Tid Bits and Web Drippings

My hiatus is taking longer than I thought. Sorry about that. Captain Murphy seems to be stalking me.

I am starting to wonder how many networks can one belong too? I have too much on my plate and have spent the better part of my weekend tweaking code to make lumpyscorner work with my various networks, bookmark sites etc.,

Is it just me or is there reaaaaal strong need for some type of "All in one" tool?
I mean I love the integration and social web but if it becomes overwhelming when does it become data smog?

I know I mentioned Parakey before but I think it was over at lumpyscorner. Parakey is a new application being developed by the brainchild behind Firefox.

Parakey is supposedly going to make interacting with the web as easy moving files around on your desk top. The day I heard about it, I signed up. (As of date, I have heard nothing heard nothing of it actually being released.)

Yesterday I heard they were bought by Facebook. Now I admit that I was reluctant to create an account for this popular social network because it seemed like more of a hassle and redundant for a blogger. The reality is I simply received too many invites to not concede.

Buying a product that is supposed to make the web seamlessly integrate with you desktop is brilliant business-sense.

Two days ago I put up a post commenting on an article on the grayness of KM. This post has a good list of questions to consider when implementing KM.

The questions are:

1. What do people know?
2. What people do not know?
3. How to best leverage people’s knowledge?
4. How to convince people to share knowledge?
5. How to map what people know to a business process?
6. How to fill knowledge gaps?
7. How to capture unique knowledge?
8. How to prevent knowledge loss unless such loss is planned abandonment?
9. To whom or what to turn when people need to fill a knowledge gap?
10. How to get people the knowledge they need, when they need it?
11. How to repair knowledge processes if they fail?
12. How to capture and advocate lessons learned and best practices?
13. How to value unique and proprietary corporate knowledge?

I think they are all good questions. There are two that I think might deserve more emphasis than others.

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I found this post on the direction of KM. I like what the author has to say. I especially like his argument about making tacit explicit. I am not going to re-write it here… Go read it.