Author: Rick Klau

Is E-mail the Killer App?. …In March, 1998, MITRE, a non-profit corporation and a leader in knowledge sharing practices, created a “thank you“ database. It works like this: Whenever someone replies with a “thank you,” the entire e-mail thread can be cc’d to a “thank you” e-mail box. The “ thank you” e-mail is copied…

Ah, Marketing!. Flight Attendant: Please prepare for our landing in Tanzania…I’m sorry, it is now called “New Zanzibar” Excuse me. It is now called “Pepsi presents New Zanzibar.”– The Simpsons Panama City, a Florida town of 9,000 souls, has decided to put ads on their police cars. The mayor said: “We had some concerns over…

Here’s a screen shot of what the desktop website looks like now that I’ve got the Radio menuing added as an activeRoll. (It’s too small to see in this snapshot; click the image to see it full size.) Thanks go to Marc Barrot for making this so freakin’ easy.

After adding the radio_navlinks outline to my desktop website, I realized that only solved part of the problem. The other was getting the same navigation options for all Radio pages – the Aggregator page, the preferences pages, etc. If you add the activeRoll to the #template.txt file, you’ll end up publishing it to the rest…

Radio users only: Just created a Radio outline called radio_navlinks.opml. The idea was to take all of the desktop Radio functions and put them into one outline. I then used the activeRoll macro by Marc Barrot (it’s part of his activeRenderer suite) to put the outline in my desktop website template. The result? All Radio…

Excited Utterances, Joy London’s excellent blog about KM and the law, now has an RSS feed. Welcome, Joy – now my lazy butt can actually read your posts more often. Anyone else interested in Joy’s site can view the RSS feed here; Radio users click here to add the site your subscriptions. Joy – if…

Check this out: The #5 top selling DVD at Yahoo! Shopping is V: The Final Battle. Who knew that this 18 year-old TV miniseries would still be such a huge hit? From the synopsis: The epic television miniseries comes to an explosive conclusion as a motley force of humans makes a final stand against the…

Klogging in Chicago. I’ll be in Chicago for a conference in early October and I’m very interested in meeting knowledge-focused webloggers in the area. [Blunt Force Trauma] Terry – there’s a bunch of us. Jenny, Jim, Eric, Mike, me and others I’m sure I’m forgetting. We keep promising each other a get-together – maybe this is…

From Blunt Force Trauma comes this great post about KM: Share More, Get MoreKnowledge isn’t like money, when you give it away you don’t have less. Ron Lusk points us to a wiki page on knowledge sharing started by Denham Grey. Denham is out there, often on the way, far, celestial event horizon of knowledge…

Just found another good marketing blog, POELog. This post is relevant on a number of fronts, and is certainly interesting in the context of the k-log conversation that’s been ongoing: MarketingProfs.com: Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. Powazek – Some great nuggets of wisdom about community, web design and core truths about developing…