http://www.ikmagazine.com/ The latest headlines and articles from Inside Knowledge Magazine (c) 2008, Ark Group Ltd. All rights reserved. http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=34AA16F5-A18A-449F-8139-07FAE2EDEEE1 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=34AA16F5-A18A-449F-8139-07FAE2EDEEE1 Constructed with Social Tools Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9FD44DF6-E6CB-4C27-88A9-57160B51A69B http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9FD44DF6-E6CB-4C27-88A9-57160B51A69B In May this year, São Paulo’s stock exchange jumped almost 10 per cent just a couple days after the news that Standard & Poor’s had raised Brazil to the level of investment grade. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=F8F09CAD-A40F-4C7D-A2C5-79FAEB76B874 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=F8F09CAD-A40F-4C7D-A2C5-79FAEB76B874 THE 2008 EDITION of the World Knowledge Competitiveness Index (WKCI) shows a rapid increase in competitiveness in Asia and other parts of the world, challenging the US lead Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=A883AA66-6D08-416C-A7A5-8D2D50798EF2 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=A883AA66-6D08-416C-A7A5-8D2D50798EF2 Upon the release of the web CMS Report 2008, CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne says “The good news is, nearly all web CMS vendors are ‘socialising’ the experience around enterprise websites and intranets by adding various engagement features such as blogs, tag clouds, forums, and more to their products. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=BEE812ED-DE3C-4145-8EE5-8DF48ED303FF http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=BEE812ED-DE3C-4145-8EE5-8DF48ED303FF Virtual networking may be the boon of a growing global business world, but virtual communication lacks something important – body language. Once you’ve taken nonverbal communication away from human discourse, you have no way of reinforcing your credibility or ‘reading’ the true feelings or meanings behind what other people say. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=FE26DC16-6D62-4B16-84BD-97E7FD4F13A9 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=FE26DC16-6D62-4B16-84BD-97E7FD4F13A9 On 12 September, 2001, I received an e-mail from the CEO of my company (a federal contracting firm located just outside Washington DC). As F-16s continued their combat air patrols over my neighbourhood, I read, paraphrasing: ‘John, yesterday (9-11) was a failure of knowledge management. In the years to come, this will be the critical area for improvement’. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=2826DDDA-57F4-426A-9239-9F7FC9475B8C http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=2826DDDA-57F4-426A-9239-9F7FC9475B8C After eight years under the guidance of founder Jerry Ash, the Association of Knowledgework (AOK) has changed hands and places. Avigdor Sharon has assumed ownership and will manage AOK with the help of a team of volunteers in Israel. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=F8D2750A-CA71-431E-9219-9FFB300E4928 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=F8D2750A-CA71-431E-9219-9FFB300E4928 A small USB device allowing the user to control access to sensitive data and personal information needed for transactions on a PC or notebook has been introduced by SCM Microsystems of Ismaning, Germany. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=049C25FE-FF5C-455B-AFC9-C658E059AF3A http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=049C25FE-FF5C-455B-AFC9-C658E059AF3A DOUG MILES, managing director of AIIM UK and regular contributor to IK, is one of the panelists representing associations and analysts, system integrators, technology vendors and end user organisations appointed recently to work with The Content Group and BSI British Standards to develop the first ever Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for enterprise content management (ECM Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=71928581-C69C-4B12-8949-C7476589C884 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=71928581-C69C-4B12-8949-C7476589C884 Farmers in Florida, US are in a stew over lack of knowledge sharing that led to crop losses predicted to cost as much as $500m in uninsured losses as well as consumer confidence. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=B21F000F-B0E6-4DEC-BDD0-CCEAF43A7ADB http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=B21F000F-B0E6-4DEC-BDD0-CCEAF43A7ADB ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ is a phrase we’ve heard on the TV show The Apprentice, and research reveals 85 per cent of the British workforce has suffered a nightmare boss just like the show’s lead character. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9BE1D36B-4797-45F2-8240-E5CB36BF0437 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9BE1D36B-4797-45F2-8240-E5CB36BF0437 What is ‘the commons’? Many of you will have heard of the tragedy of the commons where limited natural resources such as the land and the sea are overused and polluted as people act in their own self-interest. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT