Knowledge cafe', KM the IBM version

Yesterday, I had the chance to attend David Gurteen's workshop session conducted by IBM on Knowledge Management. David's session was brief and took only a few minutes, but worth the attendance, while the rest of the day talk was for IBM to sell their products.

Anyhow with David's session, I gain a lot on the KM body of knowledge. Many interesting questions arises during the sessions including.

1. The quality of context from the open collaboration community.
2. The comparison of KM1.0 and 2.0 (based on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0), and more...

David believes that KM is about conversasion. It's the conversation that drives business to evolve. It's the conversation that make the topics more understandable. It's the conversation that make Knowledge Sharing possible. His pragmatic approach is then based on conversation. He had spent over 30 years developing software for collaboration. And the collaboration software is the heart of KM.


David mentioned that there are two forms of KM.

1. Techno-Centric
2. People-Centric

Techno-Oriented has to do with

• management of unstructured information
• Database search for context

People-Centric deals with personal KM with the following tools.

• Community of Practice (CoP)
• After Action review (AAR)
• Peer Assist
• Story Telling
• Knowledge Cafe'
• Opensources

With social tools people are allow to contact one another, to share knowledge, to exchange things, etc. Many tools for social exchanges for example, Blog, WiKi, Bookmarking & Tagging, Social Network Community, RSS, Podcast, Mashup (IBM term to combine portlets into a portal page).

The Knowledge Management facts.

• KM is everybody's job (not a corporate function).
• Knowledge is no longer controlled centrally. Ownership and control is distributed through the organization.

The social object is the topic of discussion. The social network is the collection of social objects.

KM is about understanding --> Making better decision --> Improve innovation

Understanding can be made through conversations.

Knowledge Cafe' is when a group of people get together to have an open, creative conversation, to share ideas & to gain new understanding of the issues.

Daniusoft Ripped DVD with Sound Out Of Sync

I had a hand on Daniusoft DVD ripping software just last month. You can refer to my blog in December 2007. At that time I found Daniusoft an intriguing software to rip DVD for AppleTV. I was wrong. I found lot of problem on many DVD tilte to appear with sound out of sync to the picture. I had contact thier support. An agent named Alex had responded. I gave them as much details as possible. Now their support turn to silence. I haven't heard from them again since. My problem is still not solved.

Luckily, I just came across a new free software, called HandBrake. It a good DVD ripping software with output to many device format ranging from iPod to AppleTV. The output picture and sound quality are excellent. I get full display on my wide 16:9 Plasma screen. However, the interface is not at all attractive. It requires some understanding about the Display ratio. I am impressed with the solution. esspecially its free. Thanks to the development team. They really made the world a bit nicer to live on.

Khaoyai

It's been awhile away from blogg. I did so many things during the new year holiday. Most of them are nonsense, but yet one of the best new year ever. I got to stay home with my boy doing the father-son things. It's a wonderful time of life to see him grow. Arguing with him over cartoons and pets.

Last weekend, I decided to take a fatherhood off and play golf with friends. It was a long time since my last grabbing the golf club and go out and play. Yeb. The score turned bad. Two of my friends and I went out for golfing in Khaoyai, 200 Km away from Bangkok.

We start our day with golfing at Voyage Panorama. The course is beautiful. Lots of Korean golfers. We manage to get a good start It was fun. I got a Birdie. It was a reward for a long break. Anyway, the second day ws different. We went to Friendship Meadows. The course was badly ruined. The green was excellent. Quite contradict, isn't it. Yeb. I got late 50 for the last 9 hole. My drive shot was not working at all. The travelling and short play was still good. Putting was alright. But I got punished a lot from driving outrageous and loos a lot of dropping points.

Anyhow, we decided to stay at a newly opened cottage called "Bann Ing Dao" (leaning agains the star cottage). We had a great time finishing our Vodka talking about old time.

For sure, next year we will come back for golfing at Khaoyai again.