Since it’s Friday, I figured I’d draw your attention to something a bit different. A friend of mine sent me a link today to the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference website, where you can watch videos from the conference for free. In case you haven’t heard of it before (like I hadn’t), the conference “brings together [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about what it takes to successfully share knowledge, and how this type of sharing can used to maximum benefit by anyone who needs to know something someone else knows better than they do. Here’s some ways to do share knowledge better that I came up with: 1. Share failures as well [...]

 Today I came across an article in The Globe and Mail (for my non-Canadian readers, the Globe and Mail is daily national newspaper in Canada) entitled ‘Mobilizing minds‘. While the beginning of the article had the usual warnings about the importance of knowledge workers in the knowledge economy, and that catering to knowledge workers was often [...]

Building on the principles that Shawn has put together over at Anecdote (which I came across this afternoon via Jack Vinson), I came up with a little acronym that I think summarizes some of the main points. Overall, I think in order to get people to share knowledge, we want them to be… B-R-I-I-T-T-E-R. Borrowing: [...]

I like to get things done more efficiently — but I also don’t like paying for software or tools to help make me more efficient. Bootstrapper has put together an excellent list of 100 free business tools, along with links to and descriptions of each tool. While I was originally going to put together my [...]

This guide largely came about as I spoke to a few friends and colleagues about knowledge sharing — and generally heard “well, that all sounds great, but _____________.” You can fill in that blank with some of the following reasons: * I don’t really see how knowledge sharing can apply to me or my business. [...]

I’ve been tagged. All Tips and Tricks has tagged me to respond to the ’5 reasons why I write’ meme. As I said before, memes are an interesting way to get people to share knowledge. Instead of me just listing why I write, I’d like to list 5 principles for why knowledge sharing matters (and [...]