A Story on an Executive, Management and Knowledge

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Few days ago I came across Matt Simpson‘s story on “The manager who thought he could create a community”. It is a kind of stories that you often face during work with organizations and executives. A story which combines Executives, Knowledge and Technology, and misunderstanding of the nature of knowledge in organizations.

Awassa, Ethiopia

Awassa, Ethiopia

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Is the Media – Social, or the People?!…

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Many of us are within  what what is called ‘Online Presence Management’, i.e. plan, create, build, maintain and broaden their online presence over the web as well as connecting dots to networks. People want to go back to the old town square, where they can meet others, talk and experience.

Heraklion, Crete

Heraklion, Crete

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Knowledge Management – Know where you came from and plan where you want to go

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We all familiar with story about Alice approaching a junction in the wood, wondering to turn to the left or right. The advice given by Cheshire the cat is well known in the business scene: firstly, plan where you want to go, than move towards it. Continue reading →

New features in Google Reader: Is it “Delicious”?

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I am using Google Reader as my RSS Reader for a long time. In fact, using RSS reader changed totally the way I read, learn, share and develop knowledge with peers and colleagues. I am an RSS freak, and share my enthusiasm with anyone of my friends, clients and students. Besides that, I also use some other tools that allow me to share knowledge. On of them is the great Delicious. I use it to share my favorites, and by doing that, I broaden my knowledge network with others, share their favorites websites and sources, in which I occasionally find interesting and useful sources which I was not aware of. I hope my network fellows enjoy the same.

Another fascinating issue is the fact that all these tools are well connected and integrated with one another; If you create a your Google Personal Profile page, you can see them all together in one page.

However,  Last week Google Reader blog announced new features in order to increase the “Social” capabilities of Google Reader. These fine features refer to peers that by sharing their RSS feeds with others, “Like” may be attached to feeds, comments can be written as well, and conversations can be flow freely “above” the feeds. You can search for people, and discover who really believe in sharing…these are people who shares their feeds and create a “Network”, very similar to the network in Delicious.

So, what now – if Microsoft will take Yahoo Search (Yahoo holds Delicious as well..) and Google reader aims to be a “Delicious-like” tool, how can we gain the best of all worlds?!

Is Google Reader – delicious?

Obama the storyteller – Leadership at its best

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Yes, he sure can. He sure have a unique story, and he sure know to tell a true story. And, he sure can, tell this story.

At midnight time in the United States, I watched a great leader tells a leadership exciting story: It was the president-elect, sen. Barack Obama. You just have to watch it yourself and listen carefully and you will find all the neccessary ingredients of a leadership message carried out.

In his story there is hope, care, sincere love and deep emotions, cahllenges, immagination, knowledge, personal feelings and a warm sense of trust. It was told with a true enthusiasm and excitment. it disregard the past, however it was focused and stre to the future. It did not ignore the difficulties but it determined his obligation to work hard and learn. It was point to all people at the near and at the far audience.

It has a breath-traking story about a 106 years old lady who saw all, and still got hope that “we can”. And this story, was carefully connected to the young generation as well.

It was a great story which was told by a great storyteller. We can and should learn from it.

It has meaning, it creats sense and make sense, it formulate meaning, and it delivered a message.

Yes, we (also) can, wherever we are.

SCS

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(Few personal and somewhat cynical reflections, as we approach the weekend…with not even one hyperlink…)

No. It is not a name of a secret operation or a kind of a special unit. Nor it is the initials for the newest API or a protocole that one of the software application Start-ups just realease. In fact, it is something that I just ‘invent’, following the trend of Three-Letters-Term ‘movement’. You know, something that bare a High-Tech sophisticated falvour…

SCS stand for Social Collaborative Sharing… So, what is it?!

When we think of some faetures that were just released in the past days to weeks, we can really see that users can now be more collaborative, more knowledge sharing and more social, if only they adopts these features, and combine them partly or all together. You can now embed your photos from Picasa or Flickr to your favorite blog, from within these applications, on the fly. That can also be done by uploading short Videos to Flickr, or to your Facebook page – not to mention the “old” YouTube service. Than you can create 3D models with Google Sketch-Up and embed them on Google earth. afterwards, you can navigate around them directly from GE navigator, yet if you want to mock yourself as an F-16 pilot, you can also do that by Google Flight Simulator. If you want to share these models, you can create a short video with Microsoft PhotoStory or Microsoft Moviemaker, and then you can upload these videos to YouTube, and embed them on Google Maps or your Blog. If you want to notice that to your colleagues and friends, you can use Twitter from the service website page, or you can donate some extra money you do not really need to the Mobile phone comapnies by Twittering your up-to-140 charachters messages direct from your mobile. In case you are troubled that someone may not see the critic news, you can sett your twitter account that it will update your Status at your facebook page. Just bare in mind that you may want to upload the same photos to your Facebook page and tag all your friends, regardless the fact that they care about it or not – AND – you can upload the same photos from Picasa to the web using Picasa Web services. Now, you are almost done: You shared all your photos and videos to all relevant media channels: YouTube/Facebook/Flickr/Picasa Web. You can communicate through Facebook/Twitter/Google Talk. Take a short breath, you are almost done. Now – several things are yet to take care of: you have to follow all your actions mention above to your RSS Reader just to be sure that they really “did it”, and now you have other messages added to your 4,328 RSS feeds of your friends and collagues, that do the same thing described till now with their photos and videos. Ah-ha! now what about Blogging?1 first, your blog post in which you describe the cool stuff you (and all your colleagues and friends) just find out they exists (using RSS Feeds from these application blogs) and – share all your UGCs and then read them again through thr RSS Reader in which you include your Blog(s) RSS Feed(s). And I do not forget for a second that my other 567 friends are writing the same UGS, but, ‘throughout’ their eyes, which is a must read, of course. And how I know that? Well, here are some news, my friends. Now you can shrae what you just upladed to your blog through include it in your Facebook status (which you produce through your Twitter account, which you operate through your mobile phone). You can also see who’s online through the new “Facenger”, or you can share your photos directly from your Flickr photosream, using the new feature they just added this week. Communicate in sound?! well, you can do it through Skype or Googletalk. In text? you can use YouTube, Flickr, Facebook. Browse presentation? go to Slidshare. Hear lectures and othe broadcastings? Go to your favorite Podcast service. want to know what happened in (those) world(s)? Dont forget to include their RSS feeds within your reader account!

Feeling lonley in the world?! Don’t panic: you can challenge these applications to check and look for all your Addressbook address list, just to catch up the few people that were left un-connected to Linked-In, Flickr, Facebook, Skype, Slidesahre, etc. Some of these applications, are still less brutal: they offer you to send a personal E-Mails to the people you want to offer to join. You may find that this “traditional” option is prfered by most recepients…Ah! old-fashioned they are… Yuchs.

And, if you still find some extra time to spend, you can of course get updated by real stuff thet really interst you, as a part of your professional development, if you included it of course within your RSS readers. This content, BTW, can also be published in Blogs or other websites. And guess what? this is something I leave for the weekend. As we use to say once, before the Internaet era, “the real serious stuff - we take home to read in peace….”

Have a peacefull weekend! (and don’t ever disconnect…!)