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In the briefing room: Comintelli Knowledge XChanger

The battle to find the right piece of content at the right moment is a never ending quest for the knowledge worker. While most companies have organized their various internal content stores and many have contracted for authoritative external content from sources such as Factiva and LexisNexis, this is only half the battle. All of […]

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The Productivity Conundrum – Dilbert Is Currently Busy

How we, as knowledge workers, spend our day is something that we ourselves tend to not fully understand. Our impressions of what we have done in the course of a day are frequently far different than what really took place.  Dilbert famously noted that “Mondays are not part of the productive work week” and this […]

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RIM’s Foleo

Research in Motion, a mobile device company, will reportedly introduce a new BlackBerry with a slide-out keyboard as well as a large-screen tablet that will serve as a companion device to its smartphones later this year.  If the latter sounds familiar, there’s a reason why it does.  Not too long ago, back in May 2007, […]

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When Too Much Knowledge Becomes a Dangerous Thing

Socrates was relentless in his pursuit of knowledge and truth and this eventually led to his death   In The Apology, Plato writes that Socrates believed that the public discussion of important issues was necessary for a life to be of value.  “The unexamined life is not worth living.” In the olden days, before the Web, […]

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The Siren’s Call of Information Overload

Once again, information overload and attention management are front-page news. Matt Richtel at the New York Times wrote yet another piece on this topic that appeared earlier this week in the New York Times (in the interest of full disclosure, Matt interviewed me for background information as he was preparing the piece). Matt’s written on […]

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Plato Turns 50

Imagine a world without the collaborative tools we take for granted today. Decades before the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web, computer pioneers were building Plato, a system that pioneered chat rooms, e-mail, instant messaging, online forums and message boards, and remote screen sharing. Social computing and collaboration began on Plato in 1973. […]

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Understanding Our Information Diet

The somewhat elusive key to understanding Information Overload, and thus developing meaningful solutions to lessen its impact, is to first develop a clear picture of the amount of information that individuals receive and consume and also develop an understanding of how much information is too much in a given circumstance. This is a tricky set […]

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