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Ray Ozzie (co-founder of Lotus Notes, and currently behind the promising Groove) has encouraged his employees to use weblogs for KM, knowledge sharing, and – let’s face it – PR. I’m behind him on all three counts. He asked Groove’s counsel to come up with a corporate policy on blogs for employees. The resulting policy…

MSNBC.com: The Transportation Security Agency may stop asking ridiculous questions about your bags: “All passengers do not pose equal security threats,” Wascom said. “Why should we continue to ask these simple questions of everyone? We should be focusing on people who are higher security risks.”I have a suggestion. For whatever reason, I think I’m the…

Gnomedex is LIVE right now in Des Moines, Iowa – but thanks to the fine folks at PlayStream, we can bring you a real-time audio feed of the event (no matter where you live in the world)! Listen in Windows Media format live, with multiple archive formats available for download following the show, including QuickTime,…

I’m meeting later on today with one of our IT guys to try and pitch Radio as the preferred method of contributing content to our soon-to-be-re-released (!) intranet. We are a software company, but like most software companies I’ve been a part of, internal technology is not often a focus. We concentrate on technology for…

From Adam Curry’s weblog, a great review of a book about the history of the telephone. He equates the challenges faced by Bell to the weblog challenge. I think it’s broader than that, but the similarities in economic climate, business challenges, etc. are absolutely intriguing: I’ve been reading the History of the telephone, as written…

Digging Ideas Out of People’s Heads. Dave McNamee is doing a good job on his weblog of narrating his work and keeping his co-workers updated about where his head is at on any given day.  Good work Dave! I worry sometimes about the public expression of information that should be kept confidential, but I worry…

A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail. The number of Weblogs now tops a half-million, by most estimates. So it’s no surprise that some bloggers, as the writers of these link-filled, diarylike sites are known, are carving some order out of chaos. By Pamela Licalzi O’connell. [New York Times: Technology] Nothing earth-shattering in this…

I’m giving a presentation tomorrow at LawNet’s Annual Conference about the challenges of getting professional buy-in to a CRM system. I’m using this article from last fall’s InfoWorld as a counterpoint to the oft–repeated failure rates of CRM implementations. Since my audience is mostly IT Directors/CIOs, it seemed particularly appropriate: META GROUP REPORTS that a staggering 55…

Freebird!. NPR‘s All Things Considered considered the guy who shouts Freebird!. [The Peanut Gallery] I’d been meaning to blog this, since I heard about 2/3 of it last week on NPR. It’s a great story – one I’ve recounted to a few friends already. Listen for the music that fades in towards the end –…

Ernie asked me what the big deal was with liveTopics. In explaining it to him, I figured out why I was excited about it. (Interesting lesson for KM – you can’t share what you don’t know, and you don’t know something until you can explain it.) liveTopics makes it easier for me to add meta data…