(My title comes from a former colleague who buried this bon mot in a client deliverable – if she wishes me to name her, I shall. Else, know this headline gem is just something I wish I’d written.)
I interjected myself into a listserv conversation last week, stating “documents present a barrier to knowledge – We need [...]
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Free Yourselves from the Tyranny of the Document Metaphor!
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In Pursuit of Coherence – Open Government and Thee
Perhaps the priority for Open Government is to aim for something beyond Openness. While the journalist may see utter value in openness (and I can talk about them right now, since they are busily crashing Wikileak servers); the citizen may not. To my ear, the Open Government elevator speech often takes more than a few [...]
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“Twitter Does Not Foster Meaningful Discussion”
The title of this post comes from a corporate internal assessment paper reviewing methods of social media. The details are not important, but the perspective is shared widely. Beyond the eager advocates and the digiterati; acceptance or understanding of the Twitter social media tool is slow in many organizations. Some who have a corporate need [...]
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Raising the Dial Tone
About 2,000 years ago, the way to communicate across distance – if you had means – was to employ a human messenger. Lacking that, you may use smoke or fire relays to communicate along specific “lines of communication.”
About 100 years ago, the rule in pre-WWII U.S. (for residential use) was party lines, nicely captured in [...]
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Well, at least my blog has better hair now
Also it apparently lacks a Y chromosome, is considerably younger, and uses a Mac. But I suppose the “analysis” that gets me most is this absurd over-the-top silliness:
“Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need [...]
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What’s next?
First of all, I wish for all a Happy Thanksgiving – despite world events that focus our attention on those under seige. For myself, I remain the luckiest person I know.
Along those lines, I can’t wait to see what is next for me. On the bright side, my holiday calendar is opening up nicely!
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A Brief Meeting with My Enterprise Commensal Bacteria
Enjoyed a rather remarkable conversation yesterday. A gentleman associated with an enterprise social software firm put a question out into the ether regarding adoption of such products. To be specific, he used Twitter to pose the question. The “tweet” was then visible to anyone who had already signed up to follow his musings, and anyone [...]
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What if there were only one regime for classified information?
Today, a security clearance from the Department of Defense still earns you a “Visitor, Escort Required” badge from the Department of Homeland Security. Or most intelligence agencies. The reverse is also true.
The reasons why aren’t important. The organizational histories are reasonable, there are no villians.
However, a systemic view of national security quickly points up the [...]
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What if Security reported to Operations?
What if? What if instead of business people being told to justify their plans to security, security had to advise the business regarding the operational impact of their new patches, firewall rules, badging policies, etc?
What if instead of a security audit for operations, there were an operations audit for security?
What if the business people had [...]
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I’ve been asked to mentor someone in KM
This proves a timely request, as I face termination from my day job due to an inability to convince the Decider that the CKO position is still required and worth the investment. Surrounded by C2 management and fiscal leadership, and subordinated to a CIO who is truly a systems manager rather than an information officer [...]
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