From a fellow 'Knowledge Activist'

Some interesting things are highlighted in today’s newletter from a fellow knowledge activist - David Gurteen.

I’ve come across David at many KM events – may even possibly have introduced myself – but you know what these events are like, you get back home with a pocketful of business cards and a real person is reduced to a 85 x 55 mm memory! If only business cards could talk – if only you could take them out for a walk or down to the pub (there’s a new media solution somewhere there but I don’t want to go there just now). Anyway, you can find out more about David by checking out his comprehensive web site – for now, let’s get back to the point.

In his e-mail David picks up on an interesting web site called ‘ChangeThis’. In a nutshell, “We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds.” Not too tough a challenge then! Also, “ChangeThis is a vehicle not a publisher.” ChangeThis packages and promotes ‘manifestos’ via the site. Manifestos are published by both well known people (like Tom Peters) or not very well known people – like you and me. If you have a manifesto you can submit a proposal – and if the Editorial Board decide it’s good, and the people want it (by voting for it) – it gets published in a very neat PDF layout.

David likes ‘Do Less’ by Set Godin (I do too) but for a really serious read try ‘A Physics of Ideas’ by Nova Spivack, a manifesto on information overload. Don’t go there now though – you’ll waste the rest of the day. It’s cost me half my morning!

David also picks up on the ‘Personal KM’ workshop being hosted by KnowledgeBoard at KM Europe this year (8-10th Nov). It’s something he is interested and I am too – especially after I read Mick Cope’s book a couple of years ago ‘Know your value?’. I’m at KM Europe so will post an entry upon my return – or may even try finding an internet café somewhere in deepest Amsterdam between the ‘kamers’ and the ‘coffee houses’.

in case you ever do read this david im not sure that the ee cummings approach to writing style will be welcomed in all quarters eat shoots and leaves anyone [sic. punctuation omitted for effect]

ExLink: www.changethis.com
ExLink: www.gurteen.com