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I _may_ be coming to this (wil

2009-11-23T14:52:42.162+01:00

I _may_ be coming to this (will probably "register" onsite or the night before). I'd really like to learn from the experience of others with Ning. So far, I haven't been deeply involved in a Ning community, although I've tried many.

I've been a very happy user of

2009-11-20T09:42:58.588+01:00

I've been a very happy user of PersonalBrain from thebrain.com. I've tried a number of other tools and none of them have captured me, even though I thought maybe they would. I imagine that with any of these personal KM (or corporate KM) tools that the longer you use them, the more value you get. And the more locked to that tool you feel. You would almost have to export your whole knowledge base from one tool to the other AND get used to the user interface and user experience. That's a lot to ask when each PKM tool has a different feel.

I hadn't realized there was a

2009-11-07T19:44:12.731+01:00

I hadn't realized there was a difference. And, happily, there are some Twitter applications that have figured out how to ignore this restriction. For instance, PeopleBrowsr shows me the ENTIRE tweet stream from my friends, @replies included. I've forgotten that Twitter did this dumb thing entirely. Except that my readers may not be as lucky. It is annoying to have to remember to add something to the beginning of a reply just so it will definitely appear for everyone.

KM has been dying long before

2009-11-07T19:07:35.127+01:00

KM has been dying long before social media came along (Google results: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=km+is+dead&aq=f&oq=&aqi=). It continues to die apparently. Claiming death is an interesting way of comparing the various approaches to KM from the BIG overarching top-down view to the grass roots approach to ideas that work in the middle. If the opposing view is dead, then the other one must be in the ascendency.

I think this may fit under "b"

2009-11-06T09:24:45.983+01:00

I think this may fit under "b" but there is a class of decisions that people (including me) don't make because they are uncertain of the outcomes. If I do X, then A, B, C might happen. And in cases where you are deciding between options, each option might have its own list of consequences. As you say, there are many techniques from doing a pros and cons list to scores and other things. One item for decisions where there is a desired element and then lots of "what if ___ happens" (a bad thing) is to determine how ____ could happen and stop it from happening as part of taking the action. (In the Theory of Constraints world, this is called "trimming a negative branch". In the rest of the world it might be preventative planning.) If you also put it down on paper, the question of how likely is ___ to happen might become part of the discussion. So, for your surgery example. You are concerned about the time and expense. Articulate it: If I have this surgery, I won't have the time needed for ___. Or, If I have this surgery, I won't be able to do ___. To trim this, discover if these possibilities are real: consult with your doctor (or the web) on the actual down time required. Does that work?

I think the struggle with most

2009-11-05T09:25:50.244+01:00

I think the struggle with most "time tracking" systems is that they generally have no value to the people doing the time tracking. At one company, I couldn't even get the system to tell me how much vacation I had entered into the tool - something that should have been very easy to report.

Good stuff, Jim. Keep it goin

2009-10-26T18:24:27.410+01:00

Good stuff, Jim. Keep it going and flowing.

Building and creating trust ar

2009-10-19T14:19:25.770+02:00

Building and creating trust are interesting topics here. I agree with the general idea that Twitter builds interest and that blogs establish a deeper connection due to their form. And of course, direct communications with clients and friends and colleagues creates that deeper connection as well. For me it could be a stretch to get from the "deeper connection" to the trust needed in a client relationship - but I find that the relationship will start on a higher plane if we've interacted via the blog. As with Doug, I am not so sure about Facebook / LinkedIn (and other social network services) being closer to Know, Like, Trust than blogging. I treat them on parallel tracks - and definitely separate (overlapping) groups of people.

Speaking of synesthesia, whate

2009-10-16T05:11:39.401+02:00

Speaking of synesthesia, whatever happened to your attempt at writing around that topic?

The only solution to this that

2009-10-16T03:05:39.267+02:00

The only solution to this that I have found (and it was recommended by TripIt when I originally subscribed) is the SourceForge project, RemoteCalendars. It's a bit of a pain to get it configured and working in Outlook 2007, but once it's going it does what I want it to do. http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars/ One thing I'd like to understand is why Outlook keeps turning off RemoteCalendars (turn it back on under Tools -> Trust Center -> AddIns). Best- Jack Vinson

You should have a look at Phon

2009-10-13T03:58:52.935+02:00

You should have a look at PhoneTag.com, I have been using them for the last few weeks, and it seems to be just about right. They transcribe your voicemail and send it as email. Much easier. Not quite what you are looking for on the reverse, but this has to be doable. Jack

I like this. It connects to i

2009-10-03T21:04:53.002+02:00

I like this. It connects to ideas I have learned from the Theory of Constraints community, where they talk about key questions to ask of "the shiny new gadget." * What is the power of "the gadget" (what does it give you)? * What problem does it purport to solve? What limitation in the current world does it resolve? Simple questions, even that second one is completely missed in many discussions. But these aren't the only questions, because the shiny new gadget will come into a business situation that has grown accustomed to the problem/limitation. So * What rules / policies exist due to that problem? * What new rules / policies need to be created now that the limitation is gone and the shiny new gadget is being used?

I was surprised when I started

2009-10-03T03:49:34.838+02:00

I was surprised when I started working with a colleague on the Lotus Notes platform. It has a standard Reply option that includes all context, which is normally great. But all context ALSO includes attachments. A few reply-all messages with a large attachment, and you get a quick hit on your ISP limits (if you have them). Mostly, it is just a waste of an extra microsecond, wondering if they'd made a change to the attachment or attached something new.

David Buchan has followed up m

2009-10-03T03:41:49.727+02:00

David Buchan has followed up my last paragraph with some interesting thoughts about these questions. http://quantumgardener.info/answer-tough-questions/ My short answer: I am generally positive that my kids will "do well." The book just suggests to me that that won't happen without providing them the chances to glom onto things they embrace. I can't do much about when they were born, but I can do something about the opportunities we present to them.

I'd love to hear what you thin

2009-09-28T03:15:04.354+02:00

I'd love to hear what you think of Gist, Jim. I just installed it this week, but the vast quantity of my contacts do not participate in social media. And the ones that do participate, it seems like I already know about. )That said, when did you start your own company?)

Just because someone is afraid

2009-09-20T01:34:01.504+02:00

Just because someone is afraid does that make it "irrational?" It tells me that while they understand the business benefits, the organization hasn't done a good job of describing how the change is going to affect the people in the business. I saw this in a simple example at a "meet the CEO" session about a year ago. One person expressed understanding that project X would help reduce paperwork, but since her work included a lot of that paperwork, she wasn't so sure about the project. In more involved examples, the source of the resistance may not be so obvious. But if it's there, it is the change agent's job to find it and resolve it.

This thread suggests some Regi

2009-09-16T15:47:37.830+02:00

This thread suggests some Registry keys to edit, which I just did. Basically, set everything to OutputEnable of 0, rather than 1 in the DebLogger registry unter HKey_Local_Machine/Software/HTC/DebLogger. This doesn't prevent CProg from running, though. so I don't know if it will keep the size in check. I also notice another large file that is updated all the time in My Device root directory "pim.log". Anyone know what that is? (pim = Personal Information Management?) Jack

Thanks, Kaizer- Change manage

2009-08-20T12:42:11.740+02:00

Thanks, Kaizer- Change management is always an entertaining topic which I blog on from time to time. It seems variably easy and hard, depending on all sorts of factors. The biggest factor, I think, is that managers don't make sense of the change for people. How will this grow the business? How will it remove/reduce the things we complain about the most? How will it help us get things done? Where the change comes from is almost not important. If customers want it on the outside face of the company, smart managers might consider needing it on the inside too - they might think about asking it from their suppliers. Whatever "it" might be.

There is a hint at the larger

2009-08-19T10:32:58.816+02:00

There is a hint at the larger problem in your quote from Rene Cunningham. If I think (or people think) that my Inbox is "a todo list that anyone in the world can write to," then of course my Inbox is going to become problematic. But since email is still one of the easiest means of interacting within a business (even one as technically advanced as IBM), then we need to stop letting people believe that Inbox = todo list. Or that it is anything other than an inbox of unprocessed stuff. Treat it that way: process the stuff on a regular basis and then put it where it belongs: throw most of it away, file the rest, and put the few things that are really to-be-done in the appropriate place. To do work does not belong sitting in your inbox.

Thanks for the link to my arti

2009-08-18T17:13:18.664+02:00

Thanks for the link to my article. In the future, you might want to consider posting only an excerpt, rather than the entire article. This is good general practice in the blogosphere.

Okay, I have just installed th

2009-08-16T04:55:20.477+02:00

Okay, I have just installed this and it looks fine. (My battery has been replaced, so I am not getting random shut-downs.) The default home screen appears to be TouchFLO (according to Settings --> Today). How do I edit the items that appear in the bar at the bottom of this screen? I really don't care about some of those options. Thanks, Jack Kaiser ROM: This one Radio: 1.70.19.09

A friend pointed to a recent I

2009-08-14T21:28:34.826+02:00

A friend pointed to a recent Innosight blog article entitled "Why Innovation Needs Constraints..." about the latest issue of Strategy & Innovation. The gist is that the right constraints can provide focus and energy for creation of new products and services. The opposite is that "no constraints" don't necessarily lead to unfettered innovation - they may lead to even less innovation as people try too many of the "wrong" things. I think this is very much related to my comments above. If you don't have the constraints of production sitting in your face, it is often hard to appreciate how a new idea will really work. http://www.innosight.com/blog/index.php?id=418

The local library in Arlington

2009-08-13T23:32:09.558+02:00

The local library in Arlington, MA was able to _add_ Sunday hours through a local donor, who wanted it to be. And on a positive note, the local newspaper had a piece on people using the library for job hunting. (Can't find the article.)

Tease! What _is_ Dan's story?

2009-08-11T18:43:35.078+02:00

Tease! What _is_ Dan's story? I've always wondered myself, as it has happened in at least one other online group in which I've been involved.

Happy Birthday, Clarke. 40 is

2009-08-11T17:50:59.478+02:00

Happy Birthday, Clarke. 40 isn't so bad.

Looks like I will have to cont

2009-08-10T05:53:32.673+02:00

Looks like I will have to continue writing good and useful material! Thanks for the kudos.

[QUOTE=zelendel;4297689]I just

2009-08-10T03:26:55.252+02:00

[QUOTE=zelendel;4297689]I just double checked and am not having that issue with data or wifi. Did you flash a stock first, hard reset after flash? Yes. I even just tried again with the AT&T 6.1 stock ROM, and it is still just shutting down on me. And it seems to be happening more than strictly with the data connection. It will be in the midst of doing something and then it dies. Is there any way to diagnose this problem? I would think there was a defect on the phone, but the stock ROM's don't do this. I really would like some of the advanced features of these cooked ROM's, but not if my phone is unstable. Jack

The ROM looks pretty, but as s

2009-08-09T19:23:29.065+02:00

The ROM looks pretty, but as soon as I initiate a data connection, it decides to shut down with no warning. Is it my phone or is it these ROM's. I had shutdown problems on the 6.5 ROM's but it wasn't as blindingly obvious when or how it was happening. Then I realized I had forgotten to upgrade to a newer radio. I did that and the data connections seem to work correctly. More playing now. Jack Phone: 8925 (AT&T Tilt) SPL: 3.29 ROM: This one Radio: 1.70.19.09

The youtube video is odd. Peo

2009-08-02T15:57:09.064+02:00

The youtube video is odd. People don't know the difference between a browser and search. No wonder companies just want "google inside" when asked about their intranet pages. Results are probably skewed by the camera being controlled by Goolge.

As everyone who has been tryin

2009-08-01T22:33:18.249+02:00

As everyone who has been trying the new ROM (or even looking at the screen captures) knows, the UI has been changed significantly. Since most of the providers don't plan on making 6.5 backwards compatible, this isn't a major problem for most users. We aren't most users: So THANK YOU to our chefs. Anyway, there are a number of UI changes. Some I've figured out, some I have questions on. I'd love to keep a running list, if that makes sense. I'm also happy to move this post elsewhere or acknowledge someone else's work. (I did search.) So, here is my list thus far. I'm happy to have links to additional information on any of these topics.

Touch. The touch-based actions feel much better. (I get the impression from reading XDA and other forums that AT&T limited access to some of these touch actions. With the "cooked" rom's, this goes away.) The faster I slide my finger, the faster the scrolling in long pages or lists of contacts. It's not perfect, as I sometimes find myself intending to scroll and getting a click instead. (This is not different from before.) On the browser (and other apps?), flick-scrolling gives you any angle, rather than strickly up/down or left/right. I would like a tutorial for all the touch actions, though.
Home page. This is quite variable. The default seems to be CHome, which has large text/graphic bars for each element on CHome. I like that each gives underlying status when they are the selected bar, and then you can go into them further of course: email, friends, weather, etc. Many of the CHome apps have a scrolling functionality that give you additional access without having to open the underlying application. CHome is modifiable with a special editor, called CHome Editor and located in various locations, depending on the build. This lets you set which bars show up on the list and where they are located. (It would be nice if this linked to the Today settings editor and visa versa.) As usual, there are many home page options, and one more graphical option is Manila2D / TouchFLO2D (possibly a standard option). It also takes some getting used to.
Start list. Rather than a simple list, this is now the hexagonal grid of icons. I've seen a number of people say this is a direct response to the iPhone icon / application list. While it may be easier to view, I don't like the UI and lack of flexibility here. I keep forgetting where things like the Photo Album are. My current ROM has three different places to find "settings" type of tools, and there is no way (that I can see) to move things between groupings and explicitly set what icons I want where.
Internet Explorer has a much better experience - mostly. It operates full screen, and a double-tap will zoom into a readable area. (I think it actually zooms into an underlying html section, which I find comforting.) I don't understand why IE seems to shut down when I have only OK'd out to the home screen (not closed it). Big question: on a web page with a data entry field, why won't the text entry area scroll with my typing? Other question: Should I use a different browser?
FYI: The keyboard map for function keys is different than the default for the AT&T Tilt. This can be fixed by following this thread: [url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334911[/url]

Feedback welcomed. Jack Vinson Phone: 8925 / Kaiser Current setup: SPL: 3.29 ROM: RPC_Elite_V9 WWE Radio: 1.59.46.12 Protocol: 25.89.30.08H

In my view, information overlo

2009-07-27T02:45:13.878+02:00

In my view, information overload comes from the mistaken belief that I need to monitor absolutely everything. Or that I need to monitor everything all the time. (It works out the same way, if I believe one or the other.) The solution is to stop consuming all the time. Pick a time to read email during the day, like 10 am and 2 pm. Allow yourself 15 minutes with Twitter. Read newsfeeds at an appropriate time. SKIM SKIM SKIM. More importantly, pick the thing one thing you are going to focus on and do that. Then take a break (for email, coffee, Twitter, etc). Then pick the next thing.

Thanks, Justin. I completely

2009-07-26T03:26:02.367+02:00

Thanks, Justin. I completely agree with the sentiment that if we leave the blame at something we think we can't control, then we leave ourselves open to that problem again and again. I had an entertaining comment from a client recently, where "communication" has been a question. He "discovered" that the project wasn't much more than a means to improve communication in the organization.

You could always NOT invite co

2009-07-04T04:27:54.550+02:00

You could always NOT invite comment from the people who haven't participated.

This is a test!

2009-06-29T19:49:45.798+02:00

This is a test!

Interesting. I agree with Mar

2009-05-18T21:37:31.657+02:00

Interesting. I agree with Mary in that most of these points are arguments against "shared values" projects within companies. I have to wonder if these projects get initiated because of some research that showed a correlation (not causation) between values and performance. I much prefer to go along the lines of "does everyone agree to the goals of the organization?" If you don't have that, then you don't get anywhere. If you do, then you can move the organization forward through any amount of conflict and disagreement. Thanks!

So... it isn't change that is

2009-03-24T11:51:48.604+01:00

So... it isn't change that is hard, what's difficult is coming up with MEANINGFUL change that makes sense for the people responsible for making it happen (and those being impacted). If I give you the opportunity to change from a pauper to a millionaire, you'll probably be happy with that, even if there are some strings attached.

Keep it simple: Blog when you

2009-03-23T18:08:17.960+01:00

Keep it simple: Blog when you have the time and energy and interest to do so. Don't blog when you don't.

Steve - You should have a look

2006-12-06T14:05:02.421+01:00

Steve - You should have a look at what Jim McGee says about blogging and his blogging practice. It's exactly along the lines of what you are suggesting: bookmarks for your life.