Collective Knowledge by Robert Marcus, Beverley Watters. Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace. 0735614997.  Table of Contents.

Business Intelligence by Michael Luckevich, et al. Making Better Decisions Faster. 0735616272. Table of Contents. 

Unlocking Knowledge Assets by Susan Conway, Char Sligar. Knowledge Management Solutions from Microsoft. 0735616272. Table of Contents.

[a klog apart books]

David Skyrme asks why people don't share and what can we do about it? Skyrme spells it out.

Why?

• "Knowledge is power"
• "not invented here" syndrome
• Not realizing how useful particular knowledge is to others
• Lack of trust
• Lack of time

They read like excuses. What to do?

Change culture. Challenge through co-opetition (healthy competition) and foster commitment. Of all the suggestions, my favorite:

Hire people who will share

[a klog apart klogs]

Dave Winer said:

maybe I'll write a book...

Shoestring Product Management. A hundred thousand feature requests over decades of software development, you choose maybe 1-5% to go into the product. What guides that choice? What voices do you listen to? When? How do you trade off new capabilities vs. maintenance vs. reliability? Platform choices? Market segments? When do you shift your vision of the core product? How do you balance a family of products? The existing work is all for BigCo thinking. Give us the entrepreneurial approach to product management. A must have college textbook. 

Interop, Baby! Make friends of my enemies, lovers of friends. 20 Dave Winer essays on standards, alliances, working with big competitors and small ones. What works, what doesn't. Tips for getting started and when to stay away.

Blogspace 2002. Dave Winer's best picks of blogged essays, threads, and photos of the year. An annual print magazine. Interviews with the contributors.

Blog Therapy. Essays, guidelines, examples for applying writing on the web to bereavement, to managing addiction, to hospitalization, to managing mental health. Multiple viewpoints: the person who was hurt, health care professionals, family members and friends, caregivers, insurers.

No-Smoke Dave Day 5000. 

Steal this Blog. Essays on public policy in the digital age.

The Museums of Modern China: A photo essay and interviews with prominent curators.

KiddieBlog: Increase your child's IQ and EQ by weblogging. Cosponsored by Mattel.

[aka LIFE ]