Joke going around the office: Microsoft buys Yammer, renames it SharePoint Cloud Server 2012 Mobile Enterprise Social Networking Edition
— Gene Smith (@gsmith) June 14, 2012

Within all of us there are two minds: the professional and the employee. Actually, there are probably many more but …

I have a complicated relationship with personal information management (PIM) tools. I love PIM software and services that promise to remember everything that I once knew. I am tempted by every new information gadget that comes down the pike. But I have …

While reading Andy Hunt’s excellent book Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware I couldn’t help but return to a conclusion that I reached long ago: “knowledge management,” as an enterprise practice and class of software, is a false promise. Furthermore, traditional corporate training …

My career spans across the domains of a software developer and a knowledge worker. I participate in software development projects and I also do the things that your typical knowledge worker does: communicate information through reports, presentations, and other knowledge assets. One thing I have …

We just posted Episode 4 of the Malcontents podcast. In this issue, Bryant and I talked about the Fall CM Professionals Summit and the Boston 2006 Gilbane Conference. Topics included Localization and Blogs and Wikis in a Knowledge Management context.