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An article by Yankee Group analyst, Jamie Gruener, appears in Computerworld Malaysia today--A vision of togetherness.
Jamie Gruener talks about the eventual convergence of 'virtual' server and storage technology--or 'fully virtualised data centre'.
 
A brief ending excerpt:
 
"having an integrated server and storage virtualisation strategy could realise the concept of autonomic computing. This includes allowing servers and storage infrastructure that will self-heal, dynamically change as requirements increase or decrease, and provide transparent migration of applications to servers and storage systems. "

Ross Mayfield's weblogtipped me a while back to Tribecaster.

Looks great in the right hand column Ross.

How many folks still 'read' weblogs by visiting them? How many 'read' via RSS sans all of the cool thingies in theleft and right hand columns of nicely laid out weblogs such as Ross Mayfield's?
 
Has anyone else been utilizing this feature of Tribe?

Comments?

Coincidentally, as I clicked through to Ross Mayfield's weblog today, my 'image' appeared at the top of the list of'Friends'. I never really expanded my group of so-called friends on Tribe, Ryze, LinkedIn, etc.

My largest group of 'friends' is on Orkutwhere I am enamoured of the 'baseball trading cards' effect of a few fullpages of snapshots of those I have met and/or collaborate with online.

The Seattle Times has an article today by Amy Joyce of The Washington Post--Companies battle theft of knowledge and client lists.
Here's an excerpt:
 
As the economy picks up and employees prepare to move to new jobs, there's the potential for competitive information worth millions of dollars to walk out the door, straight to a competitor. Today's work world is much more of a knowledge economy in which technology and information are the main products. So the notion of assets leaving the building each night with a company's employees becomes much more pertinent.

Kuensel Online
Thimphu : 3 July, 2004 - 82 National Assembly Presenting the annual report of the government to the 82nd session of the National Assembly on June 29, the prime minister, Lyonpo Jigmi Y Thinley, said that the past year had been an exceptionally eventful period that has left a defining impact on the future course of the nation.
 
..."His Majesty the King has put Bhutan on the path of a unique process of development based on the belief that the primary purpose of development is to achieve Gross National Happiness," said Lyonpo Jigmi Thinley. "It is our collective responsibility to ensure that the nation remains true to this philosophy, that true development can only be pursued through a judicious balance between spiritual and material advancement."
 
...The prime minister said that the government was committed to promoting a knowledge-based society to promote and ensure a functional and vibrant democracy.

Well, let's see… 56 comments and 775 votes later… Yikes!
 
It certainly seems like folks mobilized in response to my last blogpoll. Indeed, I was notified by more than onereader that executives at a couple of the leading services encouraged satisfied subscribers to visit this SocialSoftware Weblog and vote for their service.
 
56 comments. Many with strong opinions on what was wrong with my question. I asked: "Which Social Networking ServiceDo You Use Most Often?" And, I encouraged folks to write in if they utilized service(s) not represented on theblogpoll.
 
I will be asking more questions starting this coming Monday. And, if you are still without a Gmail account you mightwant to vote and leave me a tip regarding your vote as I willbe giving away 10 Gmail accounts to the first 10 'tipsters'.
 
If you are celebrating the 4th of July, have a safe celebration… (-:=

Well, I'm back from another long road trip and give HUGE thanks to Suw Charman for taking such good care of theSocial Software Weblog in my absence… (-:=

From Dean Takahashi'sarticle No more 'There' there: Firm stopsonline updatesit would appear that There is scaling back. No more bug fixes, nomore consumer services development, laying off employees, closing a new round of financing, and refocusing on licensingand platform technology.
 
Subscribers are not happy.

Linden Lab is picking up a number of 'There' refugees and giving them a chanceat none other than a Second Life.

Cathleen Moore, for InfoWorld, writes--KM tools put users in control.
The two products that Ms. Moore writes about are Near-Time's Flow and Learning Management Solutions' KnowledgeWorkshop (which I posted about last week).
Does 'peer-to-peer content managment' = 'personal knowledge management'?

a year it is here in these knowledge notes
i've scribbled bits and bytes of my research
and so this day does mark, and thus connotes
my 'blogiversary' here on this 'perch'.
 
i started this in part as knowledge quest
and found to my delight, community
the friends i've made have really been the best
endorsement of this opportunity.
 
from knowledge notes to social software blog i scribe upon this virtual notepad
what oft is but a minimal prologue
regarding news and insights others had.
 
so with this verse dear readers i do say
good thanks to you for ever and a day... (-:=

William Welsh writes for Washington Technology--KeyLogic captures two EPA contracts.
Mr. Welsh writes: "KeyLogic Systems Inc. has won two contracts totaling $6.1 million from the Environmental Protection Agency, the company announced today.
 
...Under a two-year, $2 million contract, KeyLogic will continue to transform data into knowledge with the eFacts Knowledge Management System.
...Previously, the agency could produce only 12 reports per month on the Superfund program, but with eFacts it can produce as many as 1.5 million reports per month with 75 percent fewer man hours, the company said..."
Who will read the 1.5 million reports/month? And, data into knowledge? One can only dream... (-:=

Matthew Clapp, an independent consultant, submits an opinion piece on CMS Watch--Collaboration First, Then Knowledge Management--wherein he opines, rants, and comments on the growing expense of large team face to face meetings, the need for 'practical' collaboration environments, the wisdom of pilot projects, and the importance of "a seamless integration path with any content repository."
I am a 'virtual' knowledge worker. I have a home office, an office in Princeton, and offices at my clients' workplaces. This week, I've been on the west coast attending Supernova2004, and visiting with clients and friends.
 
While here on the west coast I am staying in Berkeley at the home of a friend who is an awesome 'virtual' knowledge worker--working for a large global enterprise and providing invaluable services in conjuction with his work team. My friend works harder and longer than most large enterprise employees--and he is exceedingly effective at what he does. His home office is a model of a successful 'enterprise' virtual workplace.

An article in The Business Times | Singapore--Information service will save time and money for firms--interviews Factiva president and CEO Clare Hart regarding the willingness of businesses to pay for search services. Ms. Hart points out that more than 60 per cent of Factiva's 9,000 sources are not freely available on the Internet.
According to this article Clare Hart recognizes a different trend among Singapore clients:
 
But in Singapore, things are moving in the right direction. The government here sets a good example with its emphasis on knowledge management, says Ms Hart. In fact, government agencies make up a large portion of Factiva's Singapore customer base. Ms Hart expects the field of knowledge management to keep growing and she expects to be 'right in the thick of things'.

In a Yahoo press release today: Prominent e-Learning Experts Launch Startup to Commercialize Breakthrough Personal Knowledge Networking Software.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Graham Glynn, PhD, a neuroscientist and director at the Center for Learning & Academic Technologies at Penn State University, has joined with other e-learning experts to found Learning Management Solutions, a developer of personal knowledge management and personal knowledge networking software. The company's first product, KnowledgeWorkshop, allows computer users to create, manage, share and publish knowledge bases covering all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
 
"KnowledgeWorkshop is the glue that integrates all computer-based information sources, such as Web pages, news groups and personal computer files, into one simple personal knowledge management system," said Dr. Glynn. "KnowledgeWorkshop tackles knowledge management from the user's perspective, enabling users to categorize, structure and share information in a personally relevant way with online Web page highlighting, embedded notes and bi-directional linking. Traditional learning and knowledge management systems fall short because they're rigid, monolithic and impersonal, and focus on accessing institutionalized knowledge as opposed to creating and sharing personal knowledge."
 
...KnowledgeWorkshop begins shipping today, with pricing starting at $29.00 for KnowledgeWorkshop Personal and $189.00 for KnowledgeWorkshop Professional. Both versions are available for free trial download at Learning Management Solutions...

Scott Shemwell, President & CEO, Strategic Decision Sciences, writes an article for EnergyPulse on: The Emergence of Knowledge as an Ecology.
The following is a brief excerpt on knowledge as a 'compass':
 
Knowledge must be directed. Focused towards a specific direction that builds upon the base and capitalizes on the possible. If knowledge management is a poorly defined framework with expectations that "best practices" across many industries will add value, "failure becomes an option".
 
By definition, unless this framework is well defined and aligned with the business model there is no knowledge. In fact, learning obtained in such an environment might even be considered anti-knowledge because decisions taken from this foundation are unlikely to add value and may even detract.
 
The equivalent of an individual's moral compass, the organization's knowledge framework must be aligned with and contribute its culture. Always pointing north, knowledge capital helps the firm remains on course despite the normal course adjustments required by everyday challenges.

James Niccolai writes for IDG News Services: IBM adds turbo-charger to Websphere.
...Websphere XD is designed for customers with complex environments involving multiple application servers, and who have critical applications that see unpredictable surges in demand, such as financial services companies, online retailers and auctions.
...The software rounds out IBM's application server offerings for the high end and builds on its "autonomic" initiative to provide systems that anticipate performance bottlenecks and other problems and heal them automatically, said Shawn Willett, a principal analyst with Current Analysis...

More government sponsored knowledge management news today in a Business Wire that announces: Hyperwave KMINCE Initiative to Participate in Quantum Leap-2 Demonstration of the FY 04 DoD Horizontal Fusion Portfolio. Here's a partial excerpt:
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2004--Hyperwave, a leading provider of Collaborative Enterprise Content Management solutions, is the core technology for the Knowledge Management and Collaboration in a Net-Centric Environment Initiative, which will participate in the Horizontal Fusion Portfolio Quantum Leap (QL-2) demonstration to be held 11 August 2004 at distributed sites. QL-2 expands on the 27 August 2003 Quantum Leap-1 Demonstration, which demonstrated operational readiness of Net-Centric capabilities.
 
The Horizontal Fusion Portfolio Initiative is a critical component of the DoD goal of Net-Centric Transformation to provide access to vital capabilities and trusted information for Warfighters and other essential stakeholders across the battlespace. Horizontal Fusion is sponsored and directed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Technology (ODS/NII), and is not a single program, but a Portfolio of Net-Centric Initiatives begun in FY 2003 to show that Net-Centric operations were within the reach of DoD. Hyperwave provides collaboration and content management capabilities to support the Portfolio.
 
This year, Hyperwave is collaborating with 30 other initiatives in the FY 2004 Portfolio as a partner in the Knowledge Management and Collaboration in a Net-Centric Environment (KMINCE) Initiative. Using a common architecture and integration process, Portfolio initiatives are woven into a Secret-level DoD information environment called the Collateral Space, which provides content and capabilities to exploit the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE). KMINCE has contributed to expand Warfighter access to time-sensitive, trusted, and vital information through Horizontal Fusion's MARS and other portals into the Collateral Space.