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Smallworldmedia | Organising data with TypePad

Link: Smallworldmedia | Organising data with TypePad.

I opened up a help ticket to ask if there were any plans to add an image field to weblog entries and Brenna said, What? You mean you've used up all your other fields?

That was the slap-the-forehead of course moment. Just because it says "Title" or "Body" or "Excerpt" on the TypePad "compost a post" form doesn't mean you have to put a title or body or excerpt in those fields.

It may seem obvious now, but jumping that hurdle made it so much easier to complete the design of smallworldmedia.co.uk. And once I'd finished I started looking for ways to push the concept further.

Bloglines

Link: Bloglines.

I remember signing up for bloglines some time ago and thinking "eh, this is just OK". The other day I looked at it again. Either I was blind before or it's gotten a whole lot better! Firefox extensions and notifier applets for Mac OS X and Windows (Oh, My!). I'm totally sold. Bloglines rocks.

Books on KM

Books about knowledge management (KM). This first one I've actually read. I found it to be fascinating.

The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management

Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation

Harvard Business Review on Organizational Learning

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (Harvard Business Review Series)

The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks

The New Knowledge Management : Complexity, Learning, and Sustainable Innovation

Knowledge Management Toolkit, The: Practical Techniques for Building a Knowledge Management System

Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation

Working Knowledge

The Warroom Guide to Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top

CIA, Inc: Espionage & the Craft of Business Intelligence

If Only We Knew What We Know : The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice

Tools I use

Software I used to use (when I used Windows):

Microsoft Windows XP, tricked out with:

• PowerToys


• Alt-Tab Replacement - With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.


• Open Command Window Here - This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder.


• Tweak UI - This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. (I use this predominantly so I can hit tab to complete filenames in the command line).

Windows Privacy Tools, an implementation of GNU Privacy Guard for Windows, used primarily for digitally signing and encrypting files.

Mozilla for Web, Email, Newsgroups, enhanced with:

• Mostly Crystal theme.


• Enigmail for digitally signed and encrypted mail.


• Kookie Jar, email signature manager.

SharpReader for subscribing to RSS and ATOM feeds.

gaim, a multi-network instant messenger client. Tricked out with:


• Gaim-encryption - Encrypts conversations using RSA. Only works with other gaim users.
• 
  
• popup-notify
- Adds MSN-style popups on certan events.

Microsoft Office Professional 2003
Microsoft OneNote 2003
TypePad

Stuff I like:

Lookout - Instantaneous search of contents of Outlook.
SpamBayes plugin for Outlook.
Ella for Spam Control.