Back during my paternity leave, I posted about my difficulty in trying to manage my personal contacts and the household’s contact: Contacts and Household Knowledge Management. It looks like some solutions are started to bubble up. Yahoo! announced that they have released an API for their Address Book. I run most of personal email through [...]
I have often proclaimed the virtues of using a wiki for knowledge management. But does it have place in household knowledge management? Today I have two stories. One is a great success and the other a failure in using a wiki for household knowledge management. Wiki Success Story for Household Knowledge Management One of the [...]
The next project in my Household Knowledge Management string was to catalog the household print collection. I have been looking for a way to catalog my library and make people aware of the book(s) I am currently reading. I first ran into this idea on Facebook. There are several Facebook applications that allow you to [...]
Who you know is just as important as what you know. At The Firm, we spend a great deal of resources managing contacts and keeping them up to date. I face similar problems with managing my contacts at home. As with most knowledge management issues, I need to find a way to match the content [...]
Kicking off this week’s theme of household knowledge management is calendars. It is hard to keep track of who is doing what with a busy family. My work calendar runs on The Firm’s Exchange / Outlook platform. Since it is runs on The Firm’s computer, I have a very limited ability to add on toolbars [...]
Now that I am two weeks into my paternity leave, I have been thinking about how knowledge management applies to the household. The Wife is a practicing attorney, The Son has an increasingly busy schedule and The Daughter is a very demanding client. The household has similar problems to those we have in the office: [...]