I’m just back from a fabulous, cold and wet weekend in Tasmania. We went down for Jill and Tim’s wedding - Jill is Jack’s best friend (quite appropriately). They got married overlooking a beautiful wild beach, in beautiful wild weather. The only disappointment was that they didn’t go for a wedding surf!
[More photos are here]
Keeping […]

Although Lilia warned me that “it takes a lot of time to get connected in weblog world”, it seems like people are beginning to notice me, and read me. After only a month of blogging. To push a metaphor, maybe my tracks won’t be washed away by the incoming tide.
The latest mention comes via the […]

Just exposing my inner geek … and trying to spread some open-source gospel.
I’m a bit excited today, test driving new versions of my favourite email client and web browser. If you are a Windows user I say ditch M$ Outlook and Internet Explorer, and go for the groovy sounding dynamic duo of Mozilla Thunderbird and […]

I must admit that in the 18 months since I somehow got recruited into KM Research I’ve had my doubts at times. I’ve had doubts about the quality of the work I’ve been producing, doubts about the usefulness of what we are doing (especially to the Weather Bureau), doubts about the entire discipline of academic […]

The issue I am dealing with at the moment is how to make the move from a mass of detailed observational reports to some sort of informative analysis of work.
We have a large amount of observational data collected from out studies at the Bureau of Meteorology - written observations, workflow timings, audio recordings or work […]

Its amazing how quickly a week can go by! Now I have a serious backlog of blog entries to add - is there a word for that? Backblog?
I haven’t mentioned this yet in D&D, but I’m also a busy boy studying for yet another qualification - the very Dr. Who sounding Masters of Environment degree […]

Recent posts by Anjo Anjewierden and Carla Verwijs, two Dutch KM bloggers, show that the range of perspectives on what is happening in the KM world covers a broad spectrum.
Carla, in arguing that KM is more than technology, began with this observation:
What strikes me is that (still) many authors see knowledge management as a technology […]

A couple of conference announcements that may interest KM researchers and practitioners. The first is being organised by a number of my colleagues, and is hosted by my department:
(1) ACKMIDS 2004: Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support. (Call for Papers)
Melbourne, Australia; 29 and 30 November 2004.
Sponsored by: School of Information Management and […]

A few months ago there was a bit of global outrage (and craziness) about the fact that if you did a search for “Jew�? on Google the top-ranked site was an anti-semitic site. Since then many well meaning folks took up Google Bombing - the practice of adding links to a large number of […]

About once a month the researchers within the KM Research Program here at Monash University get together over coffee and cake to discuss a paper proposed by one of the members of the group. So far we have looked at topics as diverse as:

Key Performance Indicators for Knowledge Management Solutions

Perceptions of Organizational Ownership of Information […]