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Thursday
Feb092012

Dennis McDonald's Weekly Top Ten

 

By Dennis D. McDonald

For the seven day period ending February 9, 2012, the following were, in descending order, this web site’s most popular Managing Technology posts: 

Copyright (c) 2012 by Dennis D. McDonald
Monday
Feb062012

Collaboration Can Be Messy

Collaboration can be messy. Convincing a group of people to work together to accomplish a common objective, especially when the group contains many people that don’t know each other, requires artful leadership.

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Saturday
Feb042012

Peer Review in Scientific Journals Isn't Perfect - So What Else Is New?

In Stop deifying “peer review” of journal publications Jonathan Eisen skillfully walks the reader through three realities of how peer review works with scientific journals:

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Sunday
Jan012012

I Just Updated My Copyright Date - So What?

I just updated the copyright statement in the footer of this blog from

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Monday
Nov072011

How Much of Knowledge Management is Social - and Manageable?

This post was sparked by reading a discussion series in GovLoop’s Knowledge Management in Government group. What caught my eye were several references to the relationship between “knowledge management” and “social media.”

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Thursday
Nov032011

Who Cares if Business and Brands are "Social"?

Back in August I posted Let’s Stop Talking about “Social Business” where I made the following statement:

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Tuesday
Nov012011

On the Importance of Authentic Social Media Engagement

I recently had a discussion with Robyn Tippins on Google+. I know Robyn from our podcasting days and from Linkedin Bloggers. Robyn, who recently moved to Read Write Web to serve as Community Manager, had mentioned she was hoping it would be possible to schedule posts in advance on Google+:

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Saturday
Oct292011

Five Podcasts I'm Listening To Now - Oct. 2011

I’m partial to history, technology, and the arts. Here are five I’ve been listening to regularly in recent months:

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Thursday
Oct202011

Proposal to Create a Google+ "Collaborative Project Management" Circle

Over the past week or so Michael Kaplan and I have been talking about our common interest in collaboration tools and project management.

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Tuesday
Oct182011

My First Electronic Gadgets

As I salivate at getting several new iPhone 4s smartphones via some kind of “family plan” and try to decide what storage capacity I’ll need to replace my worn-out-but-serviceable iPod Classic, my thoughts return to the gadgets of my youth.

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