Author: Rick Klau

One year ago today: It’s not the story that matters. It’s what the story says about us — why we tell it, how we tell it — that matters.

Via John Robb, I see Microsoft acquired the remaining piece of Groove Networks (Microsoft was already a large shareholder). A couple years ago (two years ago tomorrow, actually), I wrote about Groove and its growing homeland security business, its relationship with Microsoft and the possible reasons for Groove board member Mitch Kapor leaving the board.…

Claire Chaundy, responding to my post the other day about why people contribute to KM systems: The trend in a move from organizational km to personal km is mirrored in the UK. My view is don’t try to move the elephant, beacuse its big, heavy and has a very long memory for ‘the way we…

Wow — there are plugins for Google Desktop Search, including one for Trillian Pro. Very nice.

OK, giving this a try. Thanks to Denise, whose early adoption of podcasting made me envious, and local bloggers/podcasters Evan Brown and Kris & Betsy Smith who convinced me I needed to make the leap. So here you are, with much fanfare: tins ::: Rick Klau’s podcast The RSS feed for this podcast is here.…

I’ve written quite a bit about how much we love our home town, Naperville. The community, the downtown area, the family-friendly activities — it’s all wonderful. But now it appears there’s another reason for me to love Naperville: it’s a tech haven. Who knew?! Consider that in last week’s Naperville Sun there was a feature…

Hard to imagine that my son is now five years old. We had the birthday party yesterday, with Mr. Bob as the magician. (For anyone in Illinois who wants entertainment for a kid’s function, he’s fantastic. The magic was wonderful, the kids were laughing hysterically throughout.) (From the vidcap of the magic show.) Five years…

Last week, I wrote about the long tail and KM, and posited that the simplicity of a wiki made it more likely that organizations would be able to capture what people knew (and therefore be in a stronger position to leverage the institutional knowledge). Since then, Ron Friedmann (a co-presenter of mine at TechShow later…

Henry Copeland at Blogads.com is doing another survey of blog readers; please take a few minutes to fill out the survey — it should take just 4-5 minutes, and it’s a good way to get a better sense of who’s reading, what your interests are, etc. In question #16, please mention this blog (just “tins”…

Near the top of that list would have to be John Robb, who’s almost certainly got stories that would make a beer or two quite enjoyable…