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Goodbye and thank youDecember 28 2008

This will be the last post to this blog.

Thank you to everyone that kept me going with this iteration, either with direct encouragement, your comments, are just being a nameless page view. Although I’ve always said (and still do) that I blog first-most for myself…your presence has kept me going when I would have otherwise have stopped.

To the extent I return to blogging, please look for me at raymondsims.com.

As of December 2008, the hosting bill is paid-up for two years, so this (now) ‘archive’  will be available for at least that long.

Best always,

Ray

Blog traffic stats - Tony’s meme [redux]October 11 2008

Back in February I promised to take another look at my blog statistics after six months. Well, it has been longer than that…but in the interim I had stopped blogging with the start of my new job this Spring. Now, six months into new job, I belatedly returned and updated the original post with data for four months — from analytics install through the week after my last post. Here is the visual that goes with that:

Google Analytics charts

The spike in March is from my 43 Knowledge Management Definitions post, which since I stopped blogging has still seen 1300+ views, just slightly behind the more surprising favorite New Employee Orientation post. As I prepare to now walk away from this blog, it does give me some satisfaction that people are still visiting — a

Quick Updates + Boston KM ForumMay 17 2008

• I’ve very much enjoyed taking a break from blogging, what I’ve been calling my “blogging hiatus.” I’m not certain if I’m now back in for real, but I feel the urge to write again today, even though it has turned out to be a gorgeous, almost summer day, in Boston…after a rainy start.
• I’ve just completed week six in my new job and time continues to move by quickly — too quickly, as I haven’t made as much progress as I had hoped for in these few weeks. I’m still adjusting to being a knowledge management group of one at the global scale of my industry vertical. We have a distributed team — nah, I’m now calling it a ‘network’ as a more accurate description, without judgment there — covering about 30 countries. A few in the network also carry ‘knowledge management’ in their titles, while the majority have their country-level KM duties as an extra assignment. This makes complete sense as many countries are not at the scale to justify a full-time person. So far, knowledge management means almost entirely “information management” and I find that I now introduce myself externally as an “information manager” or “information specialist”…my most preferred term for what I have been up to. Again, no judgment…rather just what it is. Near-term I’m mostly consumed by the need to move to a new content management system and fielding tactical classic

Traveling in circlesApril 12 2008

I’ve been seeing circles lately, in a positive way.

As I mentioned in earlier posts this month and at the Boston KM Forum KM 2.0 symposium, I’ve been putting some time into reading Joseph Firestone and Mark McElroy’s knowledge management writing. Highly recommended, although occasionally challenging reading. Seeing their Decision Execution Cycle, in Doing Knowledge Management (29 page PDF, Firestone and McElroy, 2004), and also in On Doing Knowledge Management, (Firestone, 2008), got me to thinking about other circular models that have seen. From page 6 in the first paper:

Perhaps the most well known circular model is the similar Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle (PDCA) from Walter Shewhart; frequently credited to W. Edwards Deming

KM2.0 Presentation - Boston KM ForumApril 9 2008

This morning I presented a slightly condensed version of these slides at the Boston KM Forum’s KM 2.0 – Real or Hype? quarterly event at Bentley College:

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