Synesthesia

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-03-12:

• Becoming a More Reflective Individual Practitioner
  Michele Martin unpicks using blogging as a tool to aid reflective learning
  reflective-practice self-development blogging learning

Technorati Tags: , blogging, Learning, reflective-practice, Self Development

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-19

• Lighthouse:
  Simple hosted Issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management software.
  Keywords: webapps, issuetracking
• The Different CTO Roles:
  Views from Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com
  Keywords: corporateIT, WernerVogels, CTO
• Build Amazon Widgets:
  Keywords: amazonassociates
• Ming is re-thinking blogs:
  Keywords: blogging, socialsoftware
• Google Presentation goes live:
  Keywords: googleapps

Technorati Tags: blogging, CTO, googleapps, IssueTracking, social+software, WebApps, WernerVogels

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-02-08

• London Pedestrian Routemap:
  The first aim of the London Pedestrian Routemap is to encourage walking in London. It does this by providing a simple, memorable picture of key walking routes in the Capital. At present there is no such map. The Routemap shows how key places connect by st
  Keywords: London, Maps
• How to extract paragraphs from a Word document based on styles:

  Keywords: MS_Office, Scripting

• In The Time Of “Me-First”: Stikkit:
  Stowe Boyd uses Stikkit as an example of an approach to permissions on social tools, where the permissions start with a user, and are erlated to an item of information, not a group or workspace.
  Keywords: Collaboration, Social_Software, DataCentredSecurity, Stikkit
• How to Post to Two Separate Del.icio.us Accounts Easily:

  Keywords: del.icio.us, Personal_Productivity, PKM, Blogging

• Stikkit: Magic words, functional emails, and a handy cheat sheet:
  Merlin Mann @ 43 folders on Stikkit - a new Web2.0, social notes and organising thingy
  Keywords: GTD, WEB_2.0, Social_Software, Stikkit
• JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1:
  From Pearson’s Magazine, 11 (January 1901), 35-44
  Keywords: MartialArts, History

Technorati Tags: blogging, Collaboration, del.icio.us, History, London, maps, martial-arts, PKM, Productivity, Scripting, Stikkit

One of the reasons I’ve been quiet in this blog has been that I have started another blog specifically focused on Managing Successful Programmes.

When I set that blog up, I was planning on attending a training course in June on Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), leading (hopefully) to the practitioner certificatation. MSP is the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) approach to ensuring the success of major change programmes.

I’ve set up the other site as an online learning diary, and a central place for various notes. To support the blog there is also a wiki for more long-form notes.
Unfortunately the course I was attending has been withdrawn for June by the provider. Looks like I shall now go in October. Inevitably my motivation to go through the pre-work has been somewhat reduced, however I shall continue to post over there - I’m finding lots of ways to introduce key elements of the MSP approach into day-to-day work.

This should also mean that I have a little more online time to keep this place up-to-date!

Technorati Tags: blogging, MSP, Programme Management

Via Earl Mardle I’ve found a new tool to add to my personal knowledge management toolkit: Awasu

Although the core of the product is an aggregator, it’s a lot more than that as it offers a number of ways of inter-acting with the flow of information through the tool, both manually and in various automated ways. It also offers the facility to add “channel hooks” - plugins which carry out specific actions on selected channels.

Having installed the product, I must admit the first learning hurdle was to get used to a thick-client aggregator rather than my normal approach with Bloglines.

The next challenge was finding an easy way to blog using the tool. Although Earl recommends a workflow using Qumana, I’m not sure that’s the right one for me. I think that reticence is a little about Qumana: I’ve tried the tool before, in its earlier days and didn’t stick with it, so maybe I am transferring that to the latest version. Also, Earl’s proposed method involves using the Workpads and Reports in Awasu - functionality that I have played with, but not yet got to grips with fully. There have been a couple of funnies which might be bugs or might be configuration problems.

I shall keep experimenting with different methods of using the tool and integrating it into my work, and may well come back to the approach earl suggests. In the interim I have taken advantage of the easily-configurable User Tools menu in Awasu to call up the normal Wordpress posting page for this blog within the Awasu main window, pre-populated with key content from the source page.

Technorati Tags: aggregators, Awasu, blogging, Knowledge_Management, PKM, Productivity, Qumana

Inside Knowledge has a great article on the work my friend and colleague Euan Semple has been getting up to. He introduced me to blogging, so I’m really pleased to see him getting the sort of profile he deserves.

Technorati Tags: blogging, Friends, KM, Knowledge_Management, Organisations