Category Archives: Personal knowledge management
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Defend yourself against the Click…whirr response engendered by your built in need to reciprocate, keep consistency with what you have said you’ll do, be part of the crowd, like people who take advantage of you, follow authority without question and … Continue reading
How do you know?
My wife and I have just attended a prep grade information session which explained how reading, writing and maths are being taught to our youngest daughter. The teachers suggested we help by pointing out shapes in the home and asking … Continue reading
Using Dropbox with PersonalBrain
I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — … Continue reading
How being in love with Google led to a long-term relationship
Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and … Continue reading
Thanks to Google my computer is working again
My laptop has been in a dive. If it wasn’t rented I would probably have kicked it before now. Everything would be fine after a reboot but within a couple of hours things would stop working properly. Most annoying was … Continue reading
Beware of Google Desktop caching passwords
I installed Google Desktop Search at the weekend despite my pledge not to install any new software this year. In reading The Google Story by David Vise I became aware of just how reliant upon Google I am. If the … Continue reading
Strategy to clear a backlog of RSS news feed or blogging items
Ton Zylstra has outlined his strategy for managing the wealth of information he is subscribed to. I particularly liked the way he puts actions against items. put in delicious [account] [url] (account being my own, my company’s delicious account or … Continue reading
How to share knowledge like a librarian
Last week my business partner was lamenting the fact that I had thrown out some hard copy printouts of articles that he’d found valuable (no, he doesn’t normally go through the recycling but this time he was looking for something … Continue reading
Quantum Gardener posts are now being tagged in delicious
When this post was first written it said, I’m now tagging quantumgardener posts in del.icio.us using a quantumgardener tag no less! This gives me a richer way to tag items that movabletype’s category system. It’s faster and posts integrate with … Continue reading
Comment and trackback reinstated to improve knowledge management
In reference to my post on some side benefits of opening up your personal knowledge management system, and comment from Terry Frazier, I’ve decided to reinstate both comment and trackback functionality on Quantum Gardener.