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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & PORTALS
See also:
IBM Lotus Notes & Domino
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Knowledge Management -- There's No Such Thing as a Knowledge Worker -
There is no such thing as a "knowledge worker" in the sense that we have agricultural or factory workers.
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Pattern Language -
"These tools allow anyone, and any group of people, to create beautiful, functional, meaningful places.
You can create a living world."
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State of the Art Papers on Computing
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Game Theory .net - a resource for educators and students of game theory,
for game theory in business and people who take games too seriously.
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Mind-mapping.org -
a catalog of software that does mind mapping, concept mapping, information management and diagramming / outlining (information organisation in graphical form)
>> The mind-mapping.org Blog
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Rationale - "is like mind or concept mapping tools but goes much further. Rationale's distinct map formats clearly display and guide your critical thinking."
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Distributed Proofreaders --
a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books
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IT Toolbox KM
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Kolabora -
Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing specialists-
Knowledge Management - a Standards Australia portal
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Knowledge-Based Systems journal
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The Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems
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UTS - University of Technology, Sydney ...
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Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory
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When Content and Knowledge Management Collide
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The International KM Institute
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Nine key principles of the real-time enterprise
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Gartner: New Focus on Knowledge and Collaboration Begins in 2002
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KnowMap
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Metrics Guide for Knowledge Management Initiatives
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Factbites - a search engine "more interested in content analysis than link popularity"
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knowledgeharvesting.org
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Knowledge-Management Information Resource Center
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Knowledge Management Consortium International
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eKnowledgeCenter.com
>> Women in Knowledge Management
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KMPA - Knowledge Management Professionals Association
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a href="http://www.netacademy.org/">Net Academy
>> Knowledge Media portal
>> KM Link Collection
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The Institute for Knowledge Management
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KMTool -
"A global community for knowledge management professionals"
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CIBIT
>> CIBIT's view on KM
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KM Exchange
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ManagementFirst
>> KM page
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gannthead.com
>> KM department
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The Delphi Group -
and - The Delphi Group Australia
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Earley & Associates
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Object Knowledge
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Smith Weaver Smith -
"Cultural Changemakers"
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Total Knowledge Management Pvt Ltd
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Knowledge Ability
(U.K.)
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Syntrec / Synectia Consultants
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Know-Net.org -
LEVER Project
(KM solution for tthe software industry)
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University of Toronto FIS
>> KM Primer
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University
College London >> KM
Centre
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Semantic Studios
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KMBA - The Knowledge Management Benchmarking Association
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Intranets as Knowledge Management Systems
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Knowledge Management and Creativity
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I.T. Works
>> KM Reference Site
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FLAG - Flexible Learning Advisory Group
(Australia)
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ICASIT
>> Knowledge Management Central
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IBM's
World Jam - "Massively Parallel Conference"
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Online Community Report
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Desert Knowledge Australia -
"thriving desert knowledge economies"
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10 questions about information architecture
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Collaboration Can Be Disruptive. Isn't That Great?
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De Vos Consultancy - KM Articles
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Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interaction
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Delta Knowledge - Its Place And Significance In Industrial Design Education
(Delta knowledge is defined as "the knowledge of doing")
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Visualization and Data Mining Environments
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Analyst's Notebook
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Towards the Design of a Meta-Architecture for IT-Management
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Portal software can help you find your piece of the portal puzzle
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Groupware Competence Centre -
GKC (University of Paderborn, Germany)
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The Knowledge Management Advantage
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Halfbakery
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Uses and Misuses of Logic
- Weblogics >>
Intralogic -
Extralogic
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Manta -
purchasable business and market research reports, aggregated from leading business information publishers.
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Yellowfin (BI specialists, Australia)
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Information Overload Research Group (IORG) -
"dedicated to reducing information overload, a problem that diminishes the productivity
and quality of life of knowledge workers worldwide."
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Worldwide Information Growth Ticker
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The Semantic Web ...
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Next big step for the Web -- or a detour? - Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet,
or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve?
- W3C
>> RDF - Resource Description Framework
and OWL - Web Ontology Language (semantic Web specs)
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SIMILE - Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments -
a joint project conducted by the MIT Libraries and MIT CSAIL.
"SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata / vocabularies / ontologies, metadata, and services.
A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores.
We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata / vocabularies / ontologies, and metadata held in such stores."
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SUMO - Suggested Upper Merged Ontology -
one of the largest and most comprehensive, free, formal ontologies. This Ontology Portal site
is dedicated to distributing open source formal ontologies and tools, and supporting the developers and users of those products.
It is "the largest free, formal ontology available, with 20,000 terms and 70,000 axioms when all domain ontologies are combined.
These consist of
SUMO itself, the
MId-Level Ontology (MILO), and ontologies of
Communications,
Countries and Regions,
distributed computing,
Economy,
Finance,
engineering components,
Geography,
Government, Military (general,
devices,
processes,
people),
North American Industrial Classification System,
People,
physical elements,
TransnationalIssues,
Transportation,
Viruses,
World Airports A-K,
World Airports L-Z, WMD."
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Towards a Standard Upper Ontology -
This paper outlines the strategy used to create the current version of the SUMO, discusses some of the challenges faced
in constructing the ontology, and describe in detail its most general concepts and the relations between them.
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Planning a Semantic Web site -
The Semantic Web brings with it the opportunities for users to get smarter search results, and for site owners
to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. But these benefits don't just magically appear.
This IBM developerWorks article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure
you need in place to truly take advantage of this burgeoning opportunity.
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Scholarly Journals - access 74,000 books and over 2 million full-text articles online.
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University College London Interaction Centre - UCLIC
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Furl / Furl.net -
"Furl is a search engine for your mind -
a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you
to quickly find them again. Furl archives a personal copy of every page you save.
When you want to recall it, you can find it instantly by searching the full text of
your archived items. Each member has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB),
large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items."
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TouchGraph Google Browser
- Enter a web site's URL and "see" that website in the context that Google sees it - fascinating!
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Ga-ga over Google
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IBM Systems Journal
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Knowledge Management special issue
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IBM Systems Journal
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Information Integration special issue
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From fundamental to human, these are the
factors that define the limits of technology ...
- The laws of physics
- The laws of software
- The challenge of algorithms
- The difficulty of distribution
- The problems of design
- The problems of functionality
- The importance of organization
- The impact of economics
- The influence of politics
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Chandler Project -
an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration
and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen's
GTD methodology.
(A project of the Open Source Applications Foundation.)
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Delivering 'Information Capability':
The Application of Knowledge Management in the Australian Defence Library Service
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the Research Information Manager (or RIM-r), applies many of the
features of Lotus Notes to facilitate research work and provide
related management information.
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Mail Order
- "Any way you look at it, e-mail is a fixture in our business lives -
and increasingly the bane of many an organization's digital existence.
However, within the pain there is promise: The tacit knowledge contained in e-mail,
if recognized, shared and managed, can result in improved efficiency, higher productivity
and increased revenues in practically any business function."
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SocialPhysics.org -
mission is "to create useful software tools to manage our interactions on an
open source peer-to-peer platform. A platform that restores control over our digital identities
and supports a variety of regimes for self-governance and self-expression. Through new
and existing apps that use this platform we expect to find new forms of economic and civic participation
and organization." ...
The SocialPhysics Dashboard is a downloadable application that helps you manage your identity
and interactions with co-workers, customers, business associates and friends. Working in the background
on your behalf it tracks your email and other electronic communications and builds a locally stored model of your networks.
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Collaborative Strategies - an industry analyst and consulting firm that focuses on the collaborative software market.
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Value Based Management.net -
"a management portal specifically aimed at the information needs of senior executives with an interest in value creation, managing for value and valuation."
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Expertise Management - Who Knows About This? -
"Unlike the knowledge management systems of old, expertise location systems (ELS) get results.
The innovation: software that scans e-mail and documents and updates databases automatically."
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Collaboration - All Together Now - Collaborative technologies such as Web conferencing
and online workspaces promise to improve productivity—if you can get people to use them.
Better get ready, since VoIP may lead to convergence of these technologies
sooner rather than later.
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Designing and Evaluating a Web-Based
Collaboration Application - A Case Study (using SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft)
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Knowledge Collection ... IBM's definition --
"A focused compilation of documents
that educates Analysts and Customers about a specific product or topic and serves
as a source for general reference and as a supplement for training material.
A Knowledge Collection is not designed to be an all-inclusive list of all documents dealing with
the specific topic."
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AskMe Corporation
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Provides software solutions that enable global 2000 companies to create and manage
Employee Knowledge Networks (EKNs)
Search and identify the most relevant employee expertise and 'know-how,' as well as the documents, frequently asked questions
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Department of Commerce Deploys AskMe Enterprise to Bolster Service to U.S. Exporters ("DOC Insider")
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OAK - Association of Knowledgework
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INSEAD
Knowledge
Specific personality dysfunctions and organizational dysfunctions, more often than not, are inextricably linked.-
How Alliances Serve to Accelerate Innovation
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The Rhythm of Change - Is Full Speed Ahead Always Right?
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Perhaps management gurus have overlooked an important perspective: that stability and continuity actually form the basis of our experience and therefore provide a context for how we view change.
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A Surprise in the Price of Knowledge -
"Information is a product that helps decision makers in their deliberations and is paid for by its users. ...
[ a market experiment, Competitive
Pricing of Information: A Longitudinal Experiment ] found that, over time, prices converged to two strikingly different price levels with prices
for unreliable information being significantly higher than those for reliable information."
From MarketingProfs:
Best Practices and Case Studies -
Be Very Afraid
Knowledge Associates
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Articles such as ...
Capitalizing on the Learning Object Economy - The Strategic Benefits of Standard Learning Objects
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The purpose of this white paper is to describe the magnitude of
international efforts to achieve the vision of advanced distributed
learning, outline the key principles involved, and summarize the
strategic benefits to be gained by implementing learning object
business practices and technologies.
Use a Fishbone Diagram to help attack complex problems
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One technique for analyzing complex problems that appear to have many interrelated causes is called a "case and effect" or Fishbone diagram.
How to Salvage Your Company's Deep Smarts -
The approaching exodus of retiring baby boomers will severely erode the knowledge base of many companies.
>> The Importance of Cultivating and Transferring Deep Smarts
'Stolen' parts make for a better
intranet -
the Department of Victorian Communities has won
a place in the Nielsen Norman Group's list of the 10 best government
intranets. ... "Keep your aims realistic. Work to a tight timeline. Use
what's already built. And talk to the users all the way through. ... Many
intranets try to develop into knowledge management systems. But, as
management expert Peter Drucker puts it, you can't manage knowledge,
because it's inside people's heads. ... It is better to let people get in
touch with each other."
Ray Ozzie & Groove Networks ...
(Ray Ozzie is CEO of Groove Networks Inc. and was the creator of
Lotus Notes)
Rhadiant
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Knowledge Flow -
any CFO, Financial Controller or Accountant what the most important aspect
of financial management is. Nine times out of ten the answer they'll give is “cashflow”.
It's not the size of your financial assets that counts, it's how the money is moving. The same holds true for
knowledge. How much your organisation knows is less important than how well it can transfer that knowledge to the right person, in the right
way, at the right time. This whitepaper explores the concept of knowledge flow, why it's important, how it works, and some ways to improve it."
Digital memory comes up short -
"Computer files may survive, but the equipment to make sense of them might not. This era
could become a "digital dark age" - a part of its collective memories forever lost"
META Group
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Content and Collaboration Resource Center
Findings also revealed that 74% of respondents believe being without e-mail would present more of a hardship than being without phone service.
Users are struggling to keep up with rising tide of message volume, with some users
receiving over 200 messages per day and spending several hours daily managing their inbox.
OEO - Educational Object Economy Foundation -
the EOE develops and
distributes tools to enable the formation of communities engaged in
building shared knowledge bases of learning materials
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Why is Java the focus?
Mind Systems (MindManager)
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Journal of Information Warfare
Best Practices, LLC - Benchmarking Reports
>> KM Excellence Forum
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KM Benchmarking Reports
Philosophy in Cyberspace
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an annotated guide to philosophy resources online
The Springboard
- "How storytelling
ignites action in knowledge-era organizations"
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Understand knowledge and Knowledge Management
CCT - Computers and Communication Technology (Lebanon)
Workflow & Groupware Stratégies
>> Workflow Comparative Study
Digital
Governance -
"Building and Sustaining Democratic and Accountable Governance Structures using ICT"
eGov
links
>> List of Commissions, Institutes, Think Tanks, Organizations, Lobbyists
>> US Federal,
US
City- County - Local,
Worldwide Government Sites
Paradigm Shift International
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resources for Agility / Agile Enterprise
- Change Proficiency - Knowledge Management - Continuing Education -
Collaborative Learning - and Change Management - Business Process
Reengineering - Collaborative Learning - Enterprise Response Ability
The European Enterprise Knowledge Development Initiative
Eurotechnopolis
Institut >> International Observatory ...
Telework
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KM
PSA - Professional Services Automation ...
Gene Bellinger's Mental Model Musings -
Systems,Simulation, Organisations, Knowledge
The Cynefin Centre -
"Led by Dave Snowden,
formerly a director in the Institute for Knowledge Management, The Cynefin Centre (pronounced kun-ev'in)
is at the forefront of an emerging management discipline and practice based on the science of
complex adaptive systems. Moving beyond the very traditional, processbound ways of doing things
that stifle creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, it is creating a rich, diverse environment
for people to reconsider intractable problems in new ways. ...
The Centre focuses on high participation action research about the nature of organisations and markets
using models derived from sciences — such as biology, philosophy, anthropology and cognitive psychology —
that recognise the inherent uncertainties of social systems."
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Memes and Memetics - the study of diffusion of ideas and beliefs ...
Using information technology to support
knowledge conversion processes
Some interesting papers by Michael Kantor, David Redmiles and
associates ...
Supporting Awareness and Coordination between Groups -
Creating an Infrastructure of Ubiquitous Awareness - Cross Application
Subscription Services (CASS) -
The Knowledge
Depot: Building and Evaluating a Knowledge Management System
Edward Tufte -
Edward Tufte has written seven books, including
Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,
and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy
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MARKETING - COPYWRITING
- SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION & OPTIMISATION
DOCUMENT
& CONTENT MANAGEMENT
BLOGS & BLOGGING -
RSS / SYNDICATION / NEWS FEEDS / WEBFEEDS
SOCIAL NETWORKING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
DESKTOP METAPHORS
See also:
IT Professional
"
The business we're in today ... is based on
an innate understanding of, and empathy for, the experience a user or customer has
when engaging the product, service, or brand we're creating." -
Mark Hurst, in Good Experience
TIME TO TAKE ACTION -
The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation.
An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to
demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.
“The brain is hungry not
for method, but for content.” -
Frederick Turner
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead" - Mark Twain
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Indoition - Technical Documentation Know-how ... More than 250 useful links to resources for technical writers,
checklists, as well as comprehensive market surveys of more than 350
help authoring tools, screen capture tools, screencasting tools and other utilities. All information can also be downloaded as a PDF booklet.
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Internationalization in Content Management Systems (CMS) versus Internationalization in applications
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A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator - Follow an Information Security Investigator
as he recounts his unique experiences working with federal, corporate, and military institutions and
provides his perspective on the security issues impacting the IT industry today.
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XOOPS -
an extensible, Object Oriented, easy to use dynamic web content management system.
It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
XOOPS is a program that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g., Apache) and a database (e.g., MySQL).
XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use and modify.
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Plone: a user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System -
Plone is "a content management system with strong multilingual support. ... It is ideal as an intranet and
extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between
separately located entities. ... Plone is: easy to use, easy to install, standard, open source, extensible, technology
neutral, protected. ... Plone is built using Zope, an object oriented application server.
The language that drives Zope and Plone is Python."
Copyscape -
FREE search for copies of your page on the Web
... Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you
fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you."
- Their advanced Copysentry service (not free)
"provides comprehensive defense for your entire website. Copysentry automatically scans the web daily
and alerts you to copies of any page on your site."
- The Global Web Rights campaign provides the tools
and information you need to defend yourself against content theft and copyright violations on the web.
The Copyright Information Guide - Lots of people have heard
of the term copyright, but most people don't understand how
extensive the copyright process is. They also don't realize the
legal terms, and ramifications for copyrighted material. This
article outlines the many terms that are associated with legally
protecting one's creative works. It also provides links for
research, and helps to clarify why it is important to legally
protect products and ideas.
How Savvy Technology Marketers Can Improve Results with an Intelligent Content Strategy -
shows how a new marketing methodology, called Intelligent Content Strategy,
can be applied to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions. ...
Marketers use an Intelligent Content Strategy to develop more effective content,
to make it available more efficiently and to influence the most important decision makers
at the right stages of the buying process. The result: streamlined, effective marketing programs
that generate leads from people who are actively searching for solutions.
opensourceCMS -
a place to "completely test content management systems in one place, before taking the time to install one"
CMS Matrix - a site for comparing many of the available Content Management Systems.
FREE to use (and free even to list your own CMS).
PsychoTactics
>> 5000 BC ... "Psychology fom the Cave" -
public speaking, conversion, graphic design, copywriting, web marketing,and other topics of vital interest to small business.
The CIO Web Transaction Diet -
"How many Web pages can you serve for one cent?"
The Page Paradigm (of Web site navigation)
USERS DON'T CARE WHERE THEY ARE IN THE WEBSITE
On any given Web page, users will either:
- Click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, or
- Click the Back button on their Web browser
Jakob Nielsen - Usability guru
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RSS - Really Simple Syndication
An introduction to RSS news feeds - Using open formats for content syndication -
"RDF Site Summary (RSS) is catching on as one of the most widely used XML formats on the Web.
Find out how to create and use RSS files and learn what they can do for you.
See why companies like Netscape, Userland, and Moreover use RSS to distribute and syndicate
article summaries and headlines. This article includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file."
Top 5 Reasons to Use RSS
RSS for the Real World -
an "acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary" ...
"Also referred to as an RSS feed or XML feed, this protocol is an application of XML
that provides an open method of syndicating (or distributing) and aggregating Web content."
RSS - What it is, Where to get it, How to make it, How to use it
RSS FAQ for End Users -
"RSS is a great way to get the news you want quickly and easily without having to search
all over the Internet. You can get news from a single source or a topic-based feed from a news aggregator."
Top Feed Readers For Serious Readers
Outliners.com - "Archives from the golden age of outliners"
>> The history of outlining software
What are webfeeds and why should you care?
Feed Validator for Atom and RSS -
This is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS and
Atom feeds. To use it, simply enter the URL address of your feed and
click Validate. If the validator finds any problems in your feed, it
will give you messages for each type of problem and highlight where
the problem first occurs in your feed.UserLand RSS validator
Schematron
>> RSS Validator
Walidator -
validate not just RSS but also XHTML, HTML, CSS and more
rssseoconsulting.com - Search Ranking Services - RSS Technology Services - RSS News Feeds
Search4RSS - "The RSS Search Engine"
Google Reader -
aggregates and sorts by relevance news and updates from sites that you specify.
NewsGator
My RSS Reader - "Bringing The News to You"
Particls -
"helps you track your favorite sites and apps by displaying desktop alerts for important changes.
The web is just too big. No one has time to keep track of all the sites, conversations and interesting bits and pieces that interest them.
We all have real work to do and lives to live! So what if you could subscribe to the sites you like best and be notified when they change.
Particls even works out how important the new information is to you and displays a proportional alert."
JNN - Juicy News Network
(a Java-based aggregator with an optional talking version which announces when a new entry arrives on any of your feeds)
Yahoo! Search Directory
Aggreg8 - The RSS Feed Aggregator -
Mozilla browser extension (plug-in), with good general info about RSS.
FeedForAll- allows users to easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds.
RSSCalendar -
a way for individuals and organizations to share (via RSS) their calendars with family, friends, and co-workers
CNET's Directory of Windows RSS News Readers
Wintility -
enables users to create knowledge bases, manage documents, collaborate, save tacit information
and perform workflow functions. ... WebWintility - Allows users to access knowledge bases remotely
as well as offers a public portal to publish information.
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The rsstroom reader - personal news delivery system ...Keep up to date, right in your rest room, with
this unique device that prints RSS news feeds on your toilet paper! Featuring wireless connectivity, unlimited feed
subscriptions, RSS 2.0 plus Atom compatibility, browser-based control panel, and biometric user identification.
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Google mulls RSS support
"RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, lets online publishers automatically send
Web content to subscribers, giving readers a powerful tool to compile news headlines on the fly from several sources at once. Next to
Atom,
which launched as a challenger last year, RSS has become a leading
candidate to form the basis of an industry standard for an entirely new style of
Web publishing. ... Were Google to support both RSS and Atom equally, it might
help ease growing pains for a swiftly rising movement of Web publishing. It
would also restore Google to the status of a neutral party in the midst of a
bitter fight between backers of RSS and Atom, who have been divided since last
summer when critics of RSS banded together to create the alternative format.
Since then, many blog sites and individuals have rallied behind Atom. Google is
central to the debate because of its mounting influence in the online community
and within Web publishing circles as the owner of Blogger."
Building a Desktop News Aggregator -
about RSS, and in particular RSS Bandit. Describes a C# application that retrieves and displays news feeds from various Web sites.
The application utilizes XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, the DOM, and XML Serialization in the .NET Framework.
Working the web - Newsreaders -
"It's awesomely useful. You don't get the pictures, the layout or the
advertising of the real version, but the meaty bits are there for the chewing."
Feeding frenzy -
a simply better way of getting news, Really Simple Syndication (or RSS)
promises a new challenge to the browser, and perhaps even the television. ...
"The browser is definitely not dead, but subscribing to RSS feeds
makes getting information online more relaxing and more suited for monitoring tasks,
because you don't have to remember all the places to check and because you don't
have to expend the energy to explicitly go to all these places."
RSS adoption - let's get rid of the technobabble first
How RSS can bust through - It must be easy to find relevant feeds, and feed Subscription has to be centralized.
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Weblogs
/ Web Logs / Blogs / Blogging / Moblogs / Wikis / Podcasting / Podcasts /
Videoblogging / Videoblogs / Vlogs / Screencasting / Screencasts ...
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Inside Google
- TagCloud - a free automated
Folksonomy tool.
Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content
and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link
will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.
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Techmeme
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Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?
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MyBlogLog -
a "Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site
or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level. ...
Enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers
and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part."
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Feedster - "search Today’s Internet for listings, news, and blogs"
- Feedster Top 500 - their list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs
for each month
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Bloglines -
"a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. ...
You can make your own personalized news page tailored to your unique interests ...
Bloglines shields you from the confusion of news feed standards -- RSS, Atom, and others.
Bloglines allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog
regardless of its authoring technology. ... Bloglines provides you with the tools you need to\
begin creating your own clip blogs and blogrolls. Become a publisher, share your thoughts and opinions!"
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Linkology -
There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another,
New York Magazine has taken the most-linked-to 50 blogs
and mapped their connections (as at 20 February 2006).
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Blogdigger -
"uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and
make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can
subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified of new content pertaining to their interests."
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QuackTrack - "The world's largest browsable blog index"
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20 Analytics Tools For Blogs -
What happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content? It really comes down to the purpose of your blog.
Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly by adding crawlable content
and attracting links is quite different than a blog that’s meant to build thought leadership or brand credibility.
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Weblogs.com
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"a ping server that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website
or blog. Weblogs.com is the original ping service and receives millions of pings every day from blogs
that configure their publishing software to notify Weblogs.com the moment content is published."
- IceRocket - has "innovative blog search technology to search blogosphere"
- engadget
- a blog about (hi-tech) gadgets
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del.icio.us
- a "social bookmarks" manager
- LiveMarks -
a project to show del.icio.us and
other services' bookmarks live.
On the left of LiveMarks you can see most recently popular
bookmarks.
On the right, bookmarks scroll by as people bookmark them.
- HaloScan -
provides a free, easy to use commenting and trackback service for weblogs and websites,
allowing visitors to leave feedback, share their opinion, or comment on the subject at hand.
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BlogCode.com - "Who am I going to read today?" ...
"A familiar question to most readers of weblogs because there are so many blogs to choose from." BlogCode allows you to start with your favourite weblog (or your own) and find others like it.
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Seth Godin's blog -
author of "Unleashing the Ideavirus" - "Purple Cow" - "Permission Marketing" - and other books
- Radio Community Server -
the Top-100 Most-Subscribed-To Feeds in the
Radio UserLand community.
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Upwardly mobile -
moblogs (mobile phone / cell phone blogs)
- WordPress.com -
"an easy and powerful way to start blogging"
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20 Surefire Ways To Beat Writer’s Block
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Blogging 102: Tips for Surviving A Creative Drought
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copyblogger - "Blogging and Copywriting: A Perfect Match"
- The Annual Weblog Awards, or
Bloggies
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ITtoolbox Blogs
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Blogger.com -
create your own free blog (courtesy of Google)
>> Blogger Buzz
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Blogs and social networks and wikis, oh myy!
-
the hidden power of so-called social media services such as social networks, wikis and weblogs.
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JotSpot - "the application Wiki"
- JotSpot blog
- JotSpot Live -
"Live, group note-taking. ... Allows you, your colleagues or clients to take notes together on the same web page at the same time."
-
When the Blogger Blogs,
Can the Employer Intervene?
-
Warning -
Your clever little blog could get you fired
- Seven Reasons
Why Businesses Should Blog Now -
For any organization, a blog is part of a long-term customer evangelism strategy.
Since blogs are easy to set up and pay for (some are free), launching a blog should be at the top of your to-do list.
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5 Key Questions to ask about
Business Blogs
-
What Could Your Company Do With a Blog? --
Forward-thinking companies are looking at blogs as simple, self-sustaining Web sites and Intranets.
- Whose Blog Is It Anyway? -
blogging tips for bloggers at every level within a company, from the top down
-
Welcome to my blog -
Michael Fitzgerald writes for CIOs:
"Blogging isn't the same as writing a memo or a message in the corporate newsletter.
And while it may not be as revolutionary as some make it out to be, there's still value there." ...
Webmaster comment: Unfortunately, in his article he quotes the following two URLs,
but makes the common mistake of showing the URLs as dead plaintext, when
the golden rule for all writing for the Web (including weblogs and e-mails)
is that each and every URL should be provided as a live hyperlink.]
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Three Reasons to
Publish an e-Newsletter AND a Blog
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Blogging for Dollars -
Businesses are starting to use weblogs as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications
- Creating and maintaining
A Successful Blog - Part One
and A Successful Blog - Part Two
- Stephen Downes
>>
How To Be Heard - How to get people to read your blog: how to approach blog content, design, launch, writing your blog, marketing and revisions.
-
Straight Talk About Blogs - Do You Really Need One?
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I blog, therefore I am -
Weblogs or "blogs" are a rising force, filling PC screens with a deluge of commentary direct from diary-writing readers
and viewers. In many cases their entries are fed by the daily news, but could blogs become more than a companion to the media?
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Practicing safe blogging -
Personal Web blogs are hugely popular. They're also landing some people in a heap of trouble.
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Micro Persuasion -
how weblogs and citizen journalism are impacting public relations
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Zuula -
get results from all the top search engines.
- BizSeer.IST -
Academic Business Literature Digital Library
- Factiva
(from Dow Jones) - provides business news and information together with the content delivery
tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster.
- LexisNexis -
a leading provider of comprehensive information and business solutions to professionals
in a variety of areas — legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic.
>> LexisNexis Australia home page
- Digital Librarian -
a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Podcasting / Videoblogging / Screencasting / Moblogging ...
Technorati
- videoblogging
Smart Mobs - Videoblogging
Moblogging.org -
software, hardware and regularly updated news regarding moblogging
The Podcast Network
Buzzmachine
MICROCONTENT NEWS - "The Network Is The Computer"
Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog -
As Web logs gain in popularity, critics warn that they are increasingly becoming the Internet's new bandwidth hog. ...
Blog syndication is "currently one of the best tools for sharing more information more effectively.
The problem is more information takes more bandwidth, and bandwidth is not free."
Bill Gates describes
how Weblogs could be used a tool for business to communicate with customers
Towards Semi-Permeable Blogging -
we may be reaching a point where greater expression can only be achieved through greater privacy.
Online News Screensaver -
HTML and RSS format supported screensaver that brings news right to your desktop.
Do Hits Matter? -
"Bloggers care a lot about web-traffic, but not all blogs can be popular.
Fortunately, blog success and blog popularity do not have any great correlation, and bloggers need to get over their obsession with hits."
In the Age of the Blog, Who Needs Analysts? -
"IT pros start to wonder if analysts are worth anything these days. The real fear, our bloggers say, is that casual IT decision makers will read analyst reports, be influenced by shoddy
assumptions or research, and great technology will lose over misinformation management."
bBlog - The sales, marketing & business weblog
(from XPLANE)
AlwaysOn Network -
"the insider's network"
Kwiqq - a social networking software system, built on the Symfony PHP 5 framework,
that is designed for rapid deployment, simple setup and easy extensibility. Each installation is fully customisable and skinnable.
- Example Kwiqq site ... VoxSwap - The social network for learning languages
Influence of bloggers raises ethical questions -
The growing influence of blogs such as his is raising questions about whether they are becoming a new form of journalism and in need of more formal
ethical guidelines or codes of conduct. ... So far, many bloggers resist any notion of ethical standards, saying individuals ought to decide what's right for them. ...
How bloggers handle matters of ethics and disclosure vary greatly. ... [Some proposed principles are: Be honest and fair. Minimize harm.
Be accountable. & Disclose any conflicts of interest, publicly correct any misinformation and link to any source materials referenced in postings.] ...
Bloggers who don't link to source materials aren't taken seriously. ... Bloggers who want an audience will voluntarily adopt principles
of fairness, thoroughness, accuracy and transparency.
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dotNetNuke -
an open source Content Management System (CMS) based on ASP.NET, providing
"automated content management capabilities and tools to maintain a dynamic and 100% interactive data-driven web site".
HTMLArea -
a FREE, customizable online Web-based editor (one that works inside your browser).
It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows
and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers.
Keeping your website sorted -
Putting up a site is one thing, maintaining it so that the content is current and relevant is quite another.
Look carefully into COTS web content management systems -
the failure of web content management systems resembles other failures of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems
Avoiding the web of costly content systems -
Do you actually need a full-blooded content management system?
Miro International
My Word - writing services
TextMaestro
(text conversion tool) -
"a powerful, versatile tool for handling, formatting, and converting text with a built-in FTP client. ...
you can master any text conversion project, no matter how large it is."
Googlefight -
Provide two words or terms and see how
many times each is referenced by Google
Amplify -
"gives you the power to find, collect, save and share the content you care about"
Portals beget Portals -
Portal proliferation and consolidation -
Many organizations are facing the issue of too many portals, which were
originally intended to be an integrating platform
newsFlash
-
a Lotus Notes/Domino product designed with one purpose in mind: "to EASILY generate and display electronic newsletters
that are able to convey regular, up-to-date news and information about an organisation, its products and services, and its people."
ALA - A List Apart >>
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
How to Write for a Multilingual Marketplace (Part 1) and
How to Write for a Multilingual Marketplace (Part 2)
ix steps to publishing your own material
On Usage Metrics for Determining Authoritative Sites
Developing documentation without a tech writer
ComputerUser
>>
Battling the Butterflies - tips for giving a presentation
WebDAV - World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Failings catch up with Web content management's consultingware
EContent -
"strategies and resources for the digital content industry"
Collaboration and Knowledge Management Resource Center
Information Foraging
Optimal Foraging Theory
>> The Marginal Value Theorem
Information Hunters -
"The behaviour of human beings when searching for information intensively resembles that of the hunter-gatherers of
our past and that of the foraging of animals. Information Visualisation tries to take advantage of this finding."
Dr Jakob Nielson's Alertbox - Current Issues in Web Usability
(the "Web usability guru")
ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science and Technology
Computational models of information scent-following in a very large browsable text collection
The Role of Information Scent in On-line Browsing
Scopeware -
a "Narrative Information System (NIS)", from Mirror World Technologies)
>> What is Scopeware? (PDF)
Microsoft's
MSDN Web Content Management online web workshop
Web Developer's Virtual Library
>> Web Content Management Tips and Tricks
AIIM - The Association for Information and Image ManagementWhat's
in a name?... Product branding tips
Collabovation
(incorporating knowledgemanagement.com.au) - "Innovation by Collaboration"
WWWScribe - article "Document Management as Knowledge Management"
PDFlib -
generate PDF documents on the fly) and PDI (PDF Import Library) to process existing PDF documents
moreover.com -
easily add dynamic content and business intelligence webfeeds to your site
The Pluto System -
Content management and Web publishing (IBM)
FNProgramvare
>> BookCAT 2000 -
CATraxx -
CATVids 2000 -
SoftCAT -
StampCAT 2000
Enfish Corporation
>> Enfish Personal (was called Onespace) -
Enfish Find
CMS Watch -
"an independent source of information, trends, opinion, and analysis about Web Content Management"
Midgard -
an Open Source application server, available free, for managing Web content
Jcorporate
>> eContent -
ePortal -
Expresso Framework
(open standards application development architecture)
e-Japan -
Japanese content management and publishing platform -
PortalManager
Crystal Software, Inc
>> TextPipe Pro
(powerful text extraction and manipulation) -
ResumePipe
(automatically extracting emails and attachments) -
DataPipe
(text manipulation applied to data records in
live databases -- search and replace, pattern matching AND replacing, fix surname capitalization, cleanse address data, etc) -
WordPipe
(replaces text across multiple Microsoft Word documents) -
DetachPipe
(reclaim disk space on your mail server by deleting attachments
or by saving them to each user's local machine)
Watchfire WebXM -
"a comprehensive
website management solution delivering e-business content analysis critical to understanding the issues
that affect user experience, online risk, and e-business operational costs"
TracerLock
(a paid service) - every day scans thousands of articles published on news sites,
online trade journals and e-zines looking for new matches for your information requests.
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Marketing,
Copywriting,
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ...
-
SEO / Search Engine Optimization
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ResearchBuzz -
dedicated to coverage of the world of Internet research. Provides almost daily updates on search engines,
new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories, etc.
-
eMarketer -
statistics, trend data and original analysis covering every aspect of the Internet, e-business and emerging technologies.
-
Nick Usborne >>
Copy & Content - Why They Should Work Together
-
newezone.com -
"A venue for people from all over the world to share information, links sites and ideas. Especially about websites and all that goes
into building, maintaining and promoting them."
-
The Secret of Managing a Successful Web Site -
Great self-service means making something so convenient that people don’t even have to think.
-
bBlog - The sales, marketing & business weblog
-
Sequent Learning Networks
>>
Marketing Tools and Templates
-
Creating Effective Online Surveys -
"Electronic survey tools present a
problem. In recent years, a number of powerful survey tools have
emerged on the Web. Some of these tools make it easy to post very
sophisticated surveys and collect data on the Web. ... These are all
very powerful tools. You can literally implement a survey in a few
minutes. It is easy to forget, in this domain of apparently
instantaneous productivity, that there is an entire field of knowledge
that supports the design of effective and meaningful survey data
collection."
-
CampusClients.com
-
Catalog Age Magazine >>
E-commerce
- E-mail
Marketing - Database Marketing
-
What Every DBA Should Know About Record-Keeping Requirements -
Business applications are brimming with documents, email, and other information in electronic form.
Any document, email, or similar item created in the conduct of the business mission is a corporate record and,
therefore, is subject to regulations that govern when records can be destroyed. DBAs and database developers will be increasingly called on to integrate e-records technology within business applications.
Netconcepts >>
Web
marketing and Web developer resource links
Creating Customer Evangelists
Web Design Articles Online >> How to achieve
High Search Engine Rankings
Internet Marketing Motto:
Be Useful -
"If commerce is selling with people, then e-commerce is selling with content,
and e-marketing is marketing with content. Content management is about getting the best out of your content. ...
There is a huge role and a very bright future for marketers who truly understand Web content, and know how to use it to drive profitable actions.
... The Web is not about IT anymore, but rather about marketing."
BETTER ME - "Because business is personal"
Life Training - Online
Submit Express - We
make use of
for Search Engine Optimization and
Free Submission
AddMe.com
- FREE (or paid) search engine submission
MarketingProfs -
a sampling of the site's many excellent marketing articles ...
Marketing Complex Products and Services -
Explaining things simply and convincing prospects the technology is valuable can be very difficult.
Are You Making a Sale, or are you Selling a Dream? -
"Evangelism is an authentic sales format because its roots lie in sharing ideas,
insights and hope. It’s rooted in what’s good for the prospect, not the seller. It’s more powerful than most traditional forms of selling,
is authentic, is about long-term relationships, and builds upon itself."
Are PDF Newsletters Retro — or a Smart Move?
10 Steps to
Measuring Web Site Success
Five Deadly Sales Letter Mistakes
Five B2B Copy Myths
How to Write a Killer Proposal
Logos - What Makes Them Work (Part 1 of 2)
Everything You Know Is Wrong (about Web metrics)
Why You Need a Global Web Site -
five ways you can generate revenue and reduce costs by having localized content.
Local-language content can help deliver a more culturally relevant experience to your site visitors.
It not only optimizes the selling of products and services but also contributes to an organization's bottom line.
Content Management - Critical Skill of the Modern Manager
How to
Guarantee Product Failure -
the top five mistakes that product managers can make to ensure their products fail.
Best Practices and Case Studies - Be Very Afraid
Measuring the Cost and Value of Your Content
Measuring Your Web Content Management Process -
What’s really important to measure for your Web site?
Six Survival Strategies for the High-Tech Marketing Executive
When Being First May Not Matter (in web searches)
Natural Search: The Great Equalizer -
"Natural or organic search describes the “editorial” search results on an engine.
These results are purported to be completely nonbiased—meaning that the engine will not accept any amount of money
to influence the rankings of any sites.... Small companies can, and often do, dominate their behemoth competitors
in this world, for a variety of reasons."
Small Business Lessons for Big BusinessYour web metrics may be all wrong
>> Part 1 -
Part 2
5 Things To Know About Users
Experiencing Value -
Customer satisfaction has little to do with loyalty. What they are looking for first and foremost
is value—not the monetary kind of value, but value that impacts a person’s life.
Marketing Events - What Works, What Doesn't
10 Steps to Successful Link Building
Say Something Worth Talking About
Power-Writing for the Web - 10 Golden Rules
Ten Web Site Improvements You Can Make in 30 Minutes (or Less)
Do You Make These Mistakes in Copywriting?
10 Rules of Writing for the WebFive Positive Thoughts That Will Turbocharge Your Writing(and How to Channel Them)
Five Negative Thoughts That Can Sabotage Your Writing (and How to Shake Them)
Choose your words carefully -
The words you use make a big difference on the Internet.
Carefully chosen, they can keep a customer happy. Sloppily chosen, they can infuriate.
Ten Ways to Get the Media to Love You
Seven Deadly Sins of Web Writing -
What’s the single most important thing that could improve the Web? It’s not broadband. It’s better writing.
How To Beat
Writer’s Block
Cutting-Edge, Mission-Critical Analysis: Steps to Avoiding Overused Gobbledygook
Take Full Responsibility For Your Web Content
Metadata - An Essential Web Writing Skill -
Within a matter of seconds, people scan a page to see if it's right for them.
3 Steps to Great Copy
Web Team Roles and Responsibilities: Who's in Charge? -
"Communications staff should embrace the Web, but many of them don’t. Many
are technophobes who think that because IT originally owned the Web, it must be technical."
Marketing and
the Unimagined Other
What’s Your
Value Proposition?
Welcome to the Feelings Economy -
Fundamental shifts in commerce and consumer psychology have permanently changed the competitive landscape for years to come.
Stripping for the Audience - Secrets of Great Presenters
Ducking Presentations That Bore -
Can't seem to rivet your audience? Check out these great tips
(including the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides in 20 minutes with 30-point type).
Which Keywords Lead to Conversions?
What is marketing? ...
"the analysis of customers, competitors, and a company, combining this understanding
into an overall understanding of what segments exist, deciding on targeting the most profitable segments,
positioning your products, and then doing what's necessary to deliver on that positioning."
Web Metrics Versus Web Analytics
Marketing means solving customers’ problems profitably
3 Steps to Optimizing Your Web Site's Search
Words That Work for Audio - A Little Sound Advice
Spam Threatens -- Or Does It?
Eight Steps to Ward Off Spam Complaints
How Women Buy -
What women want is the eternal mystery, and we can’t all tweak our product lines to fit a woman’s top ten desires (true love, regular pedicures and sculpted upper arms, among others).
So, if you want to reach women with your wonderful widget, and they don’t yet realize that they need your widget at all, what do you do?
ReachWomen -
specializes in listening to women consumers, learning from their behavior and understanding their busy lives.
Through consulting, books, and articles, they educate fellow marketers and the media about what women want and more importantly, how to deliver it.
"Strategies,
Tactics, Missions and Goals" - The Importance of Getting Your Planning Terminology Right
8
Global Marketing Gaffes
and Lost in Translation - 8 Global Marketing Gaffes (Part 2) -
"Cracking an international market is a goal for most growing corporations, yet the misuse of simple words
can sabotage even your best global marketing efforts. Just as one size doesn’t fit all in global marketing, one word doesn’t fit
for all cultures, either. In fact, if used erroneously, it can cripple the most promising of deals."
Search Engine Marketing - Why Broad is Flawed
Overcoming the 6 Enemies of Good Marketing Messages
The Key To Customer Loyalty -
"Care, guidance and protection"
Killer Sacrifices: The Real Effects of Reduced Marketing
Avoiding Partnership Pitfalls
Why
Breaking the Rules will be the Next Lesson of CRM
Marketing in Troubled Times (part 1) -
Marketing in Troubled Times - (part 2)2
What Web Developers Can Learn from Retailers
Why Most Large Technology Companies Will Continue To Fail
The Big Picture - The Holy Grail of Business
Do You Have Marketing Myopia? (Focus on the customer, not
the product)
Why ROI Doesn’t Work (part 1 of 2) -
Why ROI Doesn’t Work (part 2 of 2) and
ROI - Friend or Foe?
Designing for the Multiple Personalities of Users
USING POWERPOINT and GIVING PRESENTATIONS ...
8 Steps to Creating an Infectious Business
From Suspects to Prospects: Solve the Mystery of
Qualifying Leads
Let There Be Light
Understanding Financial Value Creation and
A Question of Value
Good Positioning Is a Sacrifice
The Internet Generation -
Finding a niche, defining a paying market, reaching that market and serving it—that's the game.
Technology is a means to that end, not the end itself.
The Hippie Days Are Gone
10 Ways To Develop A High Global Business IQ
The High Cost of Running A Website -
Many organizations are beginning to question the return on investment they are seeing from their websites.
Your Web Site is Useless and Invisible -
The wireless handheld Web is finally arriving for the masses. Hundreds of thousands of your Web site visitors
are increasingly unable to use or even see your Web site.
Web Metrics On a ‘Need to Know’ Basis -
If you want to get across just how important e-metrics can be, here's what you need to explain to your boss,
depending on what type of boss you have.
Content Management Systems -
How to Make Sure Yours Is Not the Downfall of Your Web Site
Online MarketingProfs Newsletters ...
Showing Stability Through e-Newsletters -
Building Trust -
The Secret Truth of Spam -
Putting Personality Into Your E-newsletter -
Demonstrating Value -
Cutting Through Chaos
No rest for the Query -
"The search engine Google is the operating system of the Internet" -
A survey of 60,000 homes and businesses has indicated that 29.5% use Google; 28.9% use Yahoo!;
and 27.6% use MSN. However, users spent more time with Google--28.5 minutes a month, compared to 11 minutes for Yahoo!
and 8.7 minutes for MSN.
5 Key Questions to ask about Business Blogs
RSS for the Real World -
an "acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary" ...
"Also referred to as an RSS feed or XML feed, this protocol is an application of XML
that provides an open method of syndicating (or distributing) and aggregating Web content."
Four Factors That Distinguish Services Marketing -
What's right for your services organization? How can your company strengthen client relationships and improve its
competitive position? Understanding the characteristics of services can provide a unique opportunity for services producers
to improve business success by rethinking their pricing models and packaging options, improving production processes
and client participation, enhancing customer focus, and building employee relationship skills.
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