One of the benefits of working at VizThink is that we get to read advanced copies of books by the many smart people in our industry.  Some are better than others, but none compare to the next book on our list.  We were so excited about the book, we had to do a podcast with Nancy.  Know your audience through personas. Object placement. Using text. MORE >>

In Carla's latest blog post , she writes: "A year ago, I thought wikis would be the workhorses of Web 2.0, but it seems that the allure of social networking and blogging is winning out." That may be true--who am I to argue with Carla!--but but I have noticed an uptick in the buzz around enterprise wikis recently. MORE >>

Value Network Analysis (VNA) is one of the sense-making tools that I emphasize in my book, Net Work. have had the privilege of working with and learning from its inventor, Verna Allee , and have internalized the mapping of value exchanges into my consulting practice. It's always nice to have a new tool for net work MORE >>

I earlier posted the Seven Driving Forces Shaping Media framework below, which was one of the frameworks included in our Future of Media Report 2008. However the framework is designed to cover an A3 sheet, so while it looks great in the printed copy of the report it can be hard to read on a screen. SEVEN DRIVING FORCES SHAPING MEDIA. Fragmentation. MORE >>

The US Army has a set of Knowledge Management Principles and an accompanying paper (pdf) that describes the details (date stamped June 2008). Their principles are. People / Culture Dimension. Train and educate leaders, managers and champions. Reward knowledge sharing and make knowledge management a career-enhancing activity. Prevent knowledge loss. MORE >>