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Insightful tips on eLearning

Internet Time Blog: Comment on Manchester!!!

My two bits on ways to win with e-learning
1.Personalised dynamic content
Content that evolves with the user and retains its freshness.
2.Products built around the web and make web a part of their existence
Like Ebay, Like Amazon where web is a part of the offering and the part which dramatically differentiates these offerings from their stand alone counterparts, eLearning has to evolve its own versions of similar products
3.Harnessing the network power
Products should leverage on the most important strength the web provides... putting people in touch.
... and the ways to lose your shirt
1. Treating the Net as a cheap delivery medium
2. Following the publish once earn forever model
3. Assuming any content put on the web gets magically transformed to e-Learning
4. Not competing on the strengths of the medium

Posted by Ramki at December 30, 2002 04:20 PM

To whoever read this

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

游击队KM

游击队KM

GuerrillaKM is a network of people interested in communities of practice.
一个有趣的网站，还没有仔细看

不过他们的广告已经很有意思了 ：）

还有这个

烦死人的网络实名

整天弹出来，又不像Popup窗口可以用MyIE/Mozilla/Phoenix过滤掉
整天到处打广告，也不学学人家Google做点实际好用的东西出来
本来想说遇到有这样的网站就坚决以后不去（比如说新浪）
可是有些地方还是不得不去啊（象5460）
谁有办法解决啊？

Updated: 哈哈，用AntiCNS就可以啦，还不骗死3721, 上面链接去不了的话请在本地下载

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
Man's Search for Meaning, p.172

人生的意义只能由每个人自己来回答，用他/她的一生来回答

Social Software

Social Software

Social Software adapts to its environment, instead of requiring its environment to adapt to software.

Valdis Krebs offers a Social Network Analyst's view of Social Software... An organization's data is found in its computer systems, but a company's intelligence is found in its biological and social systems. Computer networks must support the people networks in today's fluid and adaptive organizations -- not the other way around. [from Jon Udell's piece on Seeing and Tuning Social Networks]

Social Software, 适应环境的软件，而不是要求环境去适应软件。这个idea却是很特别, 我赞成Ross的意见，这个肯定是将来发展的一个大方向

为什么blog

为什么blog

这几天看了许多关于blog的生存问题（或者是blogger的生存问题 :)）的讨论，突然冒出一个问题，我们为了什么而blog？
以下是我blog的目的，

• 记录网上收集的资料，类似bookmarks的作用，不过可以摘录一些内容，自己写点评论


• 记录自己的突如其来的想法，以免五分钟后忘掉（也许我还需要一个可以在床头blog的工具）


• 与朋友、合作伙伴交流思想，可以不受空间和时间的限制，这样写出来的东西是经过重复考虑的，也比较容易保存


• 生命的日志，想把生命中重要的不重要的多多少少记下一点来，真的，看了goghs在中国茶的这篇之后，我真的想写了（嗯，可以为将来写自传或者帮我写悼词的人准备些材料，呵呵）


• 工作日志，原来很认真的准备记，结果失败了，555~

你blog的目的呢？麻烦大家写在留言里，过一段时间我再做个统计

7 Habits

7 Habits

I won a copy of "Principle Centered Leadership" by Stephen R. Covey. The little I read suggested that the author was more than he appeared: your average management consultant seems to display very little by way of faith, yet Covey seemed to have some kind of faith underpinning his argument. A little research provided me answers. First was an article A Closer Look At Stephen Covey And His 7 Habits which lead me to read The Shifting Paradigms of Stephen Covey. As a committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Covey obviously would be arguing from a position of faith if that faith had made any impact on his life.
While the underpinnings of Covey's thought process are somewhat different to my own I still found it interesting to read and think about his 7 habits, and look at the converse of each. Covey points out in the introduction to "Principle Centered Leadership" that the inverse of each of the 7 habits of effective people work out as being habits of ineffective people:

Ineffective Be reactive: doubt yourself and blame others Work without any clear end in mind Do the urgent thing first Think win/lose Seek first to be understood If you can't win, compromise Fear change and put off improvement

Effective Be Proactive Begin with the End in Mind Put First Things First Think Win/Win Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Synergize Sharpen the Saw

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
我正在读这本书，里面涉及的远远不止是提高效率而已，更多的是关于原则、价值观、甚至生命的意义。那七条原则原本在一次培训中已经读过，不过现在看来，当初的理解都是很片面的。真是一本非常有价值的书，中文版的名字是《与成功有约》三联出版社出版的

blog的生存之道

中文Blog心得集

目前，中文的Blog还没有哪一个到达andrewsullivan.com这样的访问量，自然也还没有遇到同样的问题。但是，类似的困扰已经出现在这些Blog中了。有很多中文Blog，定位于为来访者提供某些方面的新闻、文章等，可是访问的人很少，慢慢的，一些Blogger就失去了动力，更新少了，最终结束了blogging生涯。这个问题，又该如何面对和解决呢？

如果一个blog的本意是想吸引很多读者的，如果吸引不了人来读，那这个blog就是失败的，作者最后退出是很正常的事，这是正常的淘汰啊
如果写blog只是自己想写些东西给自己看，也拿来和认识的/不认识的朋友交流，那么流量自然也就不那么重要了，花在blog上的时间也自然会随工作情况调整
至于那些blog太成功以至于精力不够，要在工作和blog之间作选择的话，其实也未必是零和选择，也许可以将blog的活跃程度降低或者吸引其他合作者
不过我看大多很受欢迎的blogger他们的工作都是和blog有关的，象什么专栏作家又或者在blogger.com/radio userland工作
所以也许太受欢迎的blogger可以投靠某些媒体成为专业blogger也是个不错的选择

blog的形态是千变万化的，你可能永远也想不出下一个人会用blog怎样赚钱

关于行业公会和工会的讨论

关于行业公会和工会的讨论

原文发表在网易广州社区IT人论坛

:IT 行业现在迫切需要一个行业工会和企业协会.
:
:因为, 每一个IT 人士既是IT 产品的生产者,又事IT
:
:......

1. 中国的法律没有集体谈判权这一项，工会很难发挥作用
2. 政府不出头，政治风险太大
3. 非理性降价销售－>质量差顾客不满意 －> 市场进一步萎缩 －> 继续降价
恶性竞争带来的恶性循环的确是有可能通过成立行会,进行行业自律缓解
但是要成立这样的组织并不容易（看看现在的软件行业协会就知道了，不是橡皮图章就是给某些大公司拿来做show）

希望在恶劣的经营环境下可以大浪淘沙，把大部分浑水摸鱼者（公司）赶出IT行业吧

Technology is not important for knowledge sharing

Mathemagenic

In the recent KM review Catherine Connelly shares results of the study focused on finding factor that are significant predictors of knowledge sharing among employees [more here].
Among other results (not in the article) the following factors were found important:
perceived management commitment to knowledge sharing
positive social interaction climate (e.g. feeling easy approaching others with questions)
But this one I like more - technology doesn't play a significant role:
...the findings of this study suggest that an organizations' information technology did not significantly affect the amount of knowledge exchange among employees. That is, employees who didn't have access to intranets, repositories or even e-mail were just as likely to share knowledge as their counterparts who had access to a wide variety of information technology (p.7).
She conclude we promoting smaller KM budgets:
The irony of promoting knowledge sharing on a smaller budget is that it may actually be more effective than a more expensive campain.
I'm not 100% sure that technology is not important for knowledge sharing, but this study is something to refer to while discussing that technology shouldn't drive it.

Tech titans launch Wi-Fi company

Tech titans launch Wi-Fi company - Tech News - CNET.com

Intel Capital, along with Big Blue, AT&T and investors Apax Partners and 3i, announced the creation of Cometa Networks--formerly known as Project Rainbow--a new company focused on deploying hot spots throughout the United States. Hot spots are public areas where people can access the Internet using products based on 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, a wireless networking standard with a range of about 300 feet from a network's access points, or radio transmitters.

WiFi的时代终于到来了， 以Intel/IBM/AT&T为首的一帮投资者建立了Cometa Networks, 将在整个美国范围内建设Wi-Fi网络。
中国什么时候会有呢？

Blogger archive scripts

Blogger archive scripts

Javascript for Blogger Archives
Blogger does a great many things very well, but creating attractive archive links is not one of its strongest suits. These are just some javascripts to improve on the default 01/01/1980 - 01/07/1980 style of link names, inspired by Jake's post in the Blogger Developer's Discussion forum.

这几个Scripts还真不错，特别还有一个scripts generator真是方便，想换换你的Archive links么，试试吧

Google Search Appliance

Google Search Appliance

Find things faster. Bring Google search to work. The Google Search Appliance adds the power of Google's renowned search engine to your organization.

a good example to show how to sell software as hardware, maybe I should try this someday. :)

The Art of Blogging

The Art of Blogging - Part 1

Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications

This remind me of Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming ( I just bought the volume i and volume iii Chinese version :) )
And the article is really a good introduction to blogging

真正的企业家

Web Entrepreneur Eyes Small Launcher Market

Elon Musk，31岁，PayPal和Zip2的创始人(founder)，在把PayPal卖给eBay之后开始了他的新的计划：建造和发射把低轨道卫星送上天的小型火箭。真是想象力丰富的人。slashdot上的评语是Musk用的钱和俄国富商上太空用的钱差不多，不过前者的结果显然有用得多

"I look for three things in a business," Musk said in an interview. "First of all, it needs to be commercially viable. Secondly it has to be interesting and fun. And third, if it succeeds, it has to have some beneficial effect on the world."