British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a self-deprecating anecdote about himself at the Davos Economic Forum. He had decided to overcome his own computer phobia and enrolled for an IT […]
Read moreAuthor: Keith
Keith De La Rue works in Knowledge Management. His work includes writing and editing online newsletters and other documents, developing and delivering training, producing an online quiz and other multimedia content and developing and administrating an online document library. Keith is a committee member of the Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (KMLF), and is a regular speaker at conferences in Australia and overseas on a range of topics. He holds a degree in Computer Science from RMIT, and is a member of Mensa. For more info, see the "About" page on this site.
Nothing is what it seems
“Everything you have seen here has been an illusion.” – Eisenheim 2007 “If the main theme throughout my writing is, ‘Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what […]
Read moreLet me take you back…
I had a very enjoyable week in KL and Singapore – a good conference session in KL, with lots of discussion, and a similarly positive session at the iKMS meeting. […]
Read moreIn KL and Singapore
I’m off in the morning for a week’s “holiday”. On leave from my regular job, but speaking at “Portals, Content Management and Collaboration” in KL on 6 Mar for DZ […]
Read moreZen and the art of Social Media
In 1994, Forester Research stated that “the Internet is too anarchistic for prime-time business and too complex for the average techno-peasant to master.” In discussions on actKM, Matt Moore has […]
Read moreQuote for today
To truly show respect to people means to listen to and value their opinions, engage them in making decisions and trust them to take risks. People will only share their […]
Read moreMemories are made of this
Kim Sbarcea has a new blog – ThinkingShift. There is a thought-provoking article there on how “future archaeologists will view 21st Century life.” It does make you wonder what we […]
Read moreDo you SMIF?
Blogs, wiki, instant messaging, CoPs, bulletin boards, email forums and more… These are all Social Media. When an organisation uses these as internal tools, then they can be called SMIF […]
Read moreMoving mountains
I just picked up a great Einstein quote at a workshop today: “We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking”. The workshop was delivered by a team […]
Read moreSo what do you do?
How easy is it to describe your job? Once upon a time, most jobs didn’t take a lot of explaining. But in today’s increasingly complex world, it seems to be […]
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