On the difficulty of collecting knowledge from a team.

I attended yesterday a panel of young entrepreneurs at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I was surprised at the difference of tone the four of them had. Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint.com was taking it in very good part. Refreshing, is it the mint effect ? I checked the web site and the blog. I […]

Interesting meeting of the ASP yesterday morning at the SRI in Menlo Park. Speaker was Mark Morgan. Strategic Planning On the Down Slope was really Portfolio management. He described the predictable way most companys will act on uncertains time. He mentionned in particular the first step being to cut of staff, followed by the lost of Tacit Knowledge and […]

Blogging is a primary importance in the view of collecting Knowledge. It can be fully public or totally personal. Jotting down our thoughts is a good and easy way to build a jetty in the ocean of our experiences. It can be reused later and be starting point for further insights. This is the reason Kneaver supports all […]

Location: http://apsblog.com This post is starting a new category. In the process of building Knowledge Management Software, methodology is a major issue. I am continuously reading and exploring the web. Trying not to reinvent the wheel. I think that it can be valuable to link to existing blogs that I discovered during this process and […]

Location: http://eric-blue.com/ I came across this blog while looking for combined use of Wiki and MindMaps. Kneaver combines naturally both as being alternative displays of the same body of Knowledge. Presentations is yet another. Back to Eric Blue. Eric had a post about visual Wiki. This is the link: http://eric-blue.com/2009/05/12/the-visual-wiki-a-new-metaphor-for-knowledge-access-and-management/. It was conference from John […]

The title looks like a potpourri. It’s normal. When my cat is allowed to go out in the morning, the first thing it does is to scan the neighbourhoods from the terrace. It stands on a small pillar and turns its head, slowly and zooms on the propitious spots. Mouse, lizards, cats are on the radar. Trees […]

I was so unhappy with outlook management of recurrent tasks I wrote a new scheduler I called KNVPlanner.  Several routines must be restarted every now and then. The more you become precise and add tasks, the more specific you become, the most impossible it is to deal with them all. Let say that if at […]

In my search of productivity I am looking for solutions to help me stayed focused and keep track of how much time is dedicated to most important objectives. I describe here my requirements and me experiences.

Tonight is my first tentative to run Kneaver directly with MySQL as database engine, and PHP as the script front end. This is the first step before being able to use Kneaver directly, inproc from WordPress. What started as an idea late this afternoon is not taking shape. Just switching from a very simple VBScript […]

Listening to Frank Zappa, Joe’s Garage. Suddenly the succession of terms Knowledge, Information, Wisdom catch my attention. I was concentrating on debugging so I though it was an illusion. No it’s correct. Very early mention of DIKW in About DIKW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW) in Franck Zappa Packard Goose, Joe’s Garage Acts 1-3 Listen to Mary’s (Girl in […]

Google will stop updating Google Desktop. See http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/. I will miss it because I could see several advantages to this solution. It could index many types of files, it was possible to do a search on both the Internet and your disk. Like this, in one blink, it is possible to see if anything new […]

Since KNVHTML can now be used directly from a php script comes the problem of performance. Instead of having an object allocated once for all in a session it is created on every page. It took 1 sec before. That was too long. I reviewed some discussions about optimizing wordpress before: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2007/02/16/four-plus-one-ways-to-speed-up-the-performance-of-wordpress-with-caching/, and here http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/optimize-wordpress-page-loading-time-with-php-speedy-and-wp-super-cache. […]

A great feature this week: A direct interface between Kneaver and WordPress. It allows to include elements of a Kneaver Knowledge base into WordPress posts or pages directly. A simple shortcode like [ kneaver name=”Article” ][ /kneaver ] will bring into WordPress the article and attached images, mindmaps. Like this the content already available can […]

The 2013 Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities conference (OLKC) will be held in Washington, DC on April 25-27. The theme for OLKC 2013 builds upon scholarly conversations around the dimensions of social knowledge and learning including translation, or how we interpret knowledge, transition, which involves evolution and recombination processes, and transmission, the dissemination and diffusion […]

For me a Knowledge (Management) System is a software or a service helping me to keep track of what I know and what I wish to know. If mean by “Know” what I keep in my head, memorize, understood and can readily apply. Concepts, words, recipes, know-how, images are part of it. What is not […]

Naming things is a great way to place jalons on the way of Knowledge Creation. We discuss in this new post the benefits and shortfalls of inventing new names for new concepts in your field. Continue here

A slightly technical annoucement with major user impact. Twitter announced late september that they will stop supporting XML and RSS on March 2013 and exclusively use JSON. Many social network providers will likely follow this move. This means that systems like Kneaver able to access, consumme and make sense of Social Graph and Social Media […]

This quick change is beneficial for all users. Experienced users looking for speed will appreciate that Kneave dialogs, or confirmation box open in the same window with not overhead of system memory or launching a new process. Beginners will appreciate that this is less confusing than having two windows an risk of mixing active windows […]

A simple process to turn a hand drawn sketch into a vector image than can be later edited, reused in other drawings. Vector drawings are also sharper and can be displayed perfectly on every screen resolution. They can be zoomed and stay readble. Now days most graphics and icons are designed as vector strokes and […]

With the imminent release of Personal Kneaver we really have a nice solution to manage our own knowledge. What is necessary now is to sketch the first steps. First save time. This is going to be a new commitment adding its load of work. If you are like me you are already overwelm and fighting to […]

When you open an account with Kneaver you are presented with your dashboard. Of course it is all empty out there. You are alone in Kneaver, each space is stricly separated from the other. Your first action should be to click on “Create My Knowledge” and start typing. Fine but typing what, how, why. This […]

It is tempting to copy a few paragraphs of wikipedia in a newly created item. It is tempting to copy a page from a book which is precisely explaining what this new item is about with far more clarity then we have. But is it not a good practice. Kneaver is not about keeping as […]

I capture key terms while reading. It can be from news, books, web pages, MOOC courses. First keep a link, a reference. I put a number on each books so that i can reference them with a short number easy to type. For a web page I would copy the URI. Next identify the terms. […]

When we want to enrich the interaction around items, assists the user, be more directive in what has/can be filled we resort to all theses gimmicks. Where do they fit ? Slot or attributes are recognizable piece of data attached in a 1-1 relation to an item. Name, Surname, Cell Phone number, email for a […]

This swiss army knife helps you to review your items at once and apply global changes like edits on the fly in the html code. It is not intended for an every day use. It is intended for fixing database issues like orphan items, badly type items and general review. This means that you will […]

Customization is a compelling feature of Kneaver. With types you can smoothly enhance the semantic capabilities of Kneaver. In this post I took the occasion of creating a new type to show the process step by step. Customizing a single item I am on the process of collecting my knowledge on KM itself. For this […]

This how chat2lrn typical ends: QWrap) Chatting is great…but reflection and action are better. What is your ‘take away’ from our chat? I am a big fan of twitter chats since I discovered #ragansocial focused on social media marketing. later on I found a list of chats and chat2lrn among them. Since then I particpate […]

Note: While reviewing this post on 2015-06-26 it needs to be refreshed. It’s an interesting challenge to disclose one’s way of work. Still it took me a while to prepare it. I realized that many people I follow on twitter did the same and there is an even longer list on lifehacker. It’s also an assignment […]

See also how use to Kneaver for Twitter chat How social learning differ from formal learning when we want to retain, review, reinforce what we learned. How do we retain what we learn from social media ? This question came suddenly to me yesterday, may be after the webinar on 70:20:10 from Charles Jenning on […]

I wish to share how I’m designing the new UX for Kneaver. The goal is to streamline the use of Kneaver, specially on smart phones, according to common scenarios (taking notes in urgence, searching for information while doing something else, reviewing while idle, etc..) Following advices from Mayra, Andrew and posts from LukeW, I started with the smallest breakpoint : handsets […]

This piece was original published on medium.com in We Know What You Did Last Summer https://medium.com/we-know-what-you-did-last-summer/52d83dbd77f6 . Tired of reading MOOC bashing here and there I decided a rainy day of July to give it a try. Obviously it’s easy to register and it’s like an open bar of courses. Being a serious guy I opt for […]

My short answer: Yes Yesterday Rick asked in the chat of Exploring PLN session : So I’m wondering, if I read a lot of Charles Dickens, does that make him part of my PLN? I joined this exploration as the train was already starting intrigued by a mention of #xplrpln by @ActivateLearn during last #lrnchat. So this […]

This is a followup of Clark Quinn‘s call for ideas on learning on last #lrnchat I decided to turn it into a post because it was sparked by the wrapping question of our last xAPI cohort meeting on October 1rst. What would you do next with xAPI, in a second cohort may be. Since it was already shared let’s […]

Warning: Humor ahead. I’m in a bright mood this morning. We had a very nice introduction this night by Kim and Jeff on PLN in the organization. Plenty of ideas comes to my mind very much related to Kneaver itself. because eventually what is at stake is the individual versus organisations. When you leave your job, you […]

I was inspired by Helen’s post on pitching a CEO the value of PLN. It’s very complete, a deep analyse, of the topic. I’m more in the situation where people ask me about this or that or I’m selling. This is the position I adopted. I eventually wrote a presentation as if I was selling or consulting […]

Wrote a page on how to sign-up, register for a space on Kneaver.

Added a page for people willing to use Kneaver for Twitter chats

A stream of changes to ease the first steps with Kneaver are on the way. New users will see a limited list of types and link types to choose from. With a list of 5 types and 4 links types it’s easy to make a choice. The list will expand gradually to disclose progressively more types […]

You will notice the following changes: We completed the Twitter chat application with “Reply To All”, “Favorite” icons as well as annotations icons. Annotations icons are special to Kneaver. They allow you to place some mark on tweets in the perspective of returning to them later. Use these icons to mark tweets you want to […]

Two major enhancements have been released this week: Measures and graphic of your activity on Kneaver. It displays as a graph how many items and links you created in the last days, weeks and since the beginning. We encourage to form a habit of spending “Kneaver Moments” everyday : Adding notable chunk of knwoledge acquired, […]

File Under: How I work with Kneaver Everyday I force myself to spend time capitalizing my knowledge. For this I follow different strategies. Today’s post is on the “documenting existing stuff” strategy. Based on my use of Kneaver I uncover undocumented parts that could be valuable to users. AKA Undocumented Knowledge I have that could […]