To answer this question we need to first look at what is Knowledge and then think about how we as individuals, organizations and communities use and manage knowledge. First lets look at the definition of Knowledge.
Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato’s formulation of knowledge as “justified true belief”. There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories. Wikipedia
I was invited as Aidan Hetherington to take part in the panel for the IBC the other panel members were Alex MacPhie, Jeremy Webster and Scott Mcarthur. It was good to see the enthusiasm and drive of the future of the consulting industry and grow the links between Edinburgh University and the IBC.
With over 100 million mobile users Facebook is quickly becoming an expert in mobile web and app access, this presentation outlines their road map. It is interesting how they are targeting network carriers and mobile manufactures.
Also the strategy to allow easy integration with mobile software developers with the connect library, This is something I will look in to more for some projects we are working on thanks to Tech Crunch for filming this video.
Adobe have committed to launching the Air platform on all mobile devices. Due to my involvement in Mobile Software I can only see this as a good thing.
Read more at Adobe Air Blog it is only a matter of time before this is fully ruining on Windows Mobile, iPhone and Blackberry.
In a project most of the stake-holders are only interested in the amount of work completed and if things are on track. In a Agile/SCRUM environment the best tool for showing this is the burn down chart. These are extremely simple to create with any Spreadsheet software, I commonly use both Excel and Google Docs for this. I will try and outline a simple way of doing this below: Continue reading
The only problem with upgrading to Windows 7 was that I along with others lost the 1024*768 resolution. After searching the Net I found this useful hack to give two new resolutions to the EEE PC.
Run Regedit
Search and Modify all values “display1_DownScalingSupported” from 0 to 1 (you have to change them all)
Reset the system
Change the screen resolution to either one of the previous settings or to the new resolutions of 1024*768 or 1152*864
I am currently using 1152*864 resolution and it seems to be working fine.
Hans Rosling clearly presents information which shows the changes over time in the health and poverty in the world, the visual style and presentation of the data is exceptional.
Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed with classic data shows.
Some time ago I was asked to try and review RationalPlan by Tiberiu Ghioca. There are two versions of the application Single Project and Multi Project. The version I used was the Multi Project Version which retails for around $98 per user (compare this to MS Project more about that later).
The one obvious advantage along with the price is the fact the application works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X. This is appealing as I am among the few Windows users (by the way I am happy with this) in most of the projects I work on. So finally a Project Management application that is not online (I travel a lot and do not always have easy access to the Internet) that can be shared among all the users on a project. Continue reading
Adobe have committed to launching the Air platform on all mobile devices. Due to my involvement in Mobile Software I can only see this as a good thing.
Some time ago I was asked to try and review RationalPlan by Tiberiu Ghioca. There are two versions of the application Single Project and Multi Project. The version I used was the Multi Project Version which retails for around $98 per user (compare this to MS Project more about that later). 
