Posted in Knowledge Management on September 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today I tried to learn Dreamweaver. Wow! What an experience. It took me 7 hours and two large mochas to get past lesson number 2. But tennacity paid off. I DID learn how to create a home page AND link to pages, link to return email and link to a URL.
Through this experience I found [...]
Posted in Art, School on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m bringing to the home page my recent addition to The Art of Knowledge Management page, as it truly is a debate of merit for this blog.
Picasso and Open Source Software
I was elated today to read on our Fall 2007 LIS/KM 5043 Design and Implementation of Web-Based Information Services class (led by Dr. Betsy Van [...]
Posted in philosophy on September 16, 2007 | No Comments »
To truly “communicate”, there must be shared meaning… And sometimes that means clarification… And to get there, one often needs to ask questions.
Checking in with our philosophers from the School of Athens, today I turn to Socrates, whose pupils included Artistotle and Plato. According to changing minds.org, “Socrates was one of the greatest educators who [...]
Posted in Everyday Life, Knowledge Management on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The everyday, little revelations we have are usually the genesis of some of our most profound philosophies. Did the great thinkers come up with their theories this way?
I had one of those aha moments today, thanks to one of my friends and a lunch conversation we shared. While driving (when I do ALL my best [...]
Posted in Communication, philosophy on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Where did the word “communication” come from? And if our illustrious philosophers could talk to us from the painting above, what would they say? It has been speculated that the field of communication studies grew from the rhetorical study of speech and speakers, a study that stretches back to the days of Plato and Aristotle. [...]
Posted in Communication, School on September 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
then what IS communication?
I was led to this quandary following a class (”Online Research Methods” 
I attended yesterday at which the professor concluded with astonishment: “This class should be called Communication Methods.” I smiled. Shouldn’t every KM class have the word “communication” in its title?
I’m enjoying my Sunday morning coffee while at the computer (sorry, [...]
Posted in Art, Communication, International Conference on KM, Knowledge Management, School, philosophy on September 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Imagine Plato and Aristotle on the steps of the Athens Knowledge Café. They invite Socrates and Euclid to join them inside for a mocha chino and a little bit of knowledge sharing. From the School of Athens to the School of Knowledge Management… just how has the knowledge of ancient philosophers and scientists come to [...]
