Friday, February 22, 2013

Productivity Lesson Learned: Remote control your phone from your laptop saves time

TeamViewer Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Another small step in improving productivity

I have to say: AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME ! Installed Teamviewer Quick Support on my Samsung Phone (Galaxy Note 2), installed it on my linux netbook and VOILA, I see the GN2 screen filling out my netbook screen. I can use the mouse and the keyboard and completely control the phone. This is very helpful specially to take calls via speakerphone, sends SMS/text messages, and to use all the apps that I have installed without picking the phone up (while working on the netbook).

Highly recommended.

Productivity Lesson Learned: Remote control your phone from your laptop saves time

Monday, February 18, 2013

Knowledge Management is still a good thing !

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Experts are talking at the Gilbane Boston 2012 Conference and again conclude – humans are center of any solid Knowledge Management strategy.

From modern world ‘ancient’ perspectives that websites and databases are knowledge, it seems that the understanding that it is all about our experience in life and at work, that is at the core of Knowledge Management.

“A decade ago [..] People thought IT was how you managed knowledge.”

Computers can make our life easier. Mobile phones also. Though they are all just transport mechanism to connect people to each other, access generic information on one side, enabling dynamic dialogue on the other.

“Interestingly, preliminary results from a survey Chait and Moulton are conducting with businesses running knowledge management initiatives show that IT is considered the least important skill for knowledge management leaders. Deep business knowledge is considered most important, followed by excellent communication skills and trust from others.” – is another conclusion of the experts on this conference.

“in knowledge management, users are drivers of action and IT provides response to let the action happen.” – Well, as a project manager – try to make a project plan for that. As a department head, try to budget that for next year. The point here – Knowledge Management is not an add-on to an organizations IT capabilities – it is the arteries and the veins of an organizations brain.

If interested, read the whole article in this CMS Wire issue.

Knowledge Management is still a good thing !

This is why 'the internet' likes you too...

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“Silicon Valley is excellent at founding and funding companies that give you free apps and then collect and sell your data when you use them. For most of the Internet’s short history, the primary goal of this data collection was classic product marketing: for example, advertisers might want to show me Nikes and my wife Manolo Blahniks. But increasingly, data collection is leapfrogging well beyond strict advertising and enabling insurance, medical and other companies to benefit from analyzing your personal, highly detailed â€œBig Dataâ€ record without your knowledge. Based on this analysis, these companies then make decisions about youâ€”including whether you are even worth marketing to at all.”

Scientific American makes a good point in this article on the fact that what drives (and pays for) the Internet, is the ability sell you stuff. Like so often, the majority of unaware people is subject to analysis and being marketed to. My advise: Inform yourself, protect yourself (difficult password, virus and malware protection, anti-cookie tools) and be cautious about what you put on the internet, and what is on the internet about you.

Set up a google alert with your name and find out what the internet knows about you.

Big data collection collides with privacy concerns, analysts say

This is why 'the internet' likes you too...

Saturday, February 02, 2013

CIAT releases a policy brief summarizing 10 years of experience with KM in research for development

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Download the brief in English and in Spanish

It sure is pretty to watch - see who's tweeting around the world

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Even if you dont ‘twitter’ LOL – check this out: http://tweetping.net/ – a worldmap showing live the locations of tweets around the world. The dark colore with the white tweet spots makes the animation actually pretty to watch. TwitArt in some way. Enjoy

It sure is pretty to watch - see who's tweeting around the world

Friday, February 01, 2013

Mobile Knowledge Management - access to information and connecting people

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Here are some great examples:

“You’ve got to use the right technology. If we stuck to just email or Facebook we’d be skipping over millions of people who need to be part of this.”

Text Messaging Brings African Voices to World Leaders at the UN

Unlike when the Millenium Development Goals were crafted, mobile phones now provide rapid mass communication for many living in Africa. There were just 16 million mobile phones on the continent in 2000, and now there are more than 650 million.

5 Reasons Mobile Is the Future of Sustainable Development

Social media and technology hold a unique position when it comes to shaping sustainable solutions for the future or our planet. At the core of many of these possibilities for change are mobile phones. There are now 6.2 billion mobile phone subscriptions held by 4.2 billion mobile subscribers around the world â€” and that number is only increasing. By 2017, Ericsson forecasts 9 billion mobile subscriptions. As mobile continues its rapid run toward global adoption, more people will access the Internet solely through mobile devices. Mobile phones are even replacing paper money, helping to provide a check on authority and improving rural health standards.