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Entries in Expertise Management (36)
Six Ways Local Governments Can Use Social Media to Promote Energy Conservation
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 09:40AM Here are six ways local governments can use social media to help promote energy conservation. If you think of more please comment below this post or send an email to ddmcd@yahoo.com:
How Much do People Need to Understand Technology to Manage It?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 01:25AM Jeremiah Owyang’s post Gen Y Enter Stage Left, Baby Boomers Exit Stage Right got me to wondering how much people should understand about technology in order to manage it in an organization.
In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 12:45PM I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 03:30PM Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 09:58AM This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.
Cognitive Enhancement and Scientific Collaboration, Working Together
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 04:32PM About twenty minutes into the January 31 edition of the Nature Podcast Nick Bostrom makes an interesting case for promoting scientific advances by focusing more scientific research on how to enhance scientists’ own thinking processes.
Collaborative Decisionmaking in Disaster Response Situations
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 01:38PM Professor Murray Turrof recently sent me a draft of a paper that will be presented at the upcoming 5th International ISCRAM Conference in Washington DC in May of 2008.
What I'm Learning About Applying Social Media to Disaster Response
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 03:30PM I’ve been researching applications of social media and social networking in local disaster response. Here are some of the things I’ve found.
Google OpenSocial, Collaboration, and Expertise Location
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 10:22AM The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:
Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 03:43PM People use the tools available to them when a crisis hits. Increasingly these tools include blogs, text messaging, and social networking systems such as Facebook. The use of such communication tools in disaster and emergency situations is evidence of an obvious fact: the people most involved in an emergency are going to communicate about it. The question is, how can those in an official capacity take advantage of these communication channels?