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Guest Editorial: Five ENTOVATION
Principles for Homeland Security
Debra M. Amidon
KnowMap's Global View Director, in this guest editorial,
describes strategies for homeland security applicable no matter
what your particular homeland might be
Special Views
Read insights others have offered in view of this editorial and
contribute your thoughts to:
Innovative
Insights
A New Look for KnowMap
Xenia Stanford
Our Editor-in-Chief explains the new site
design, the audience focus and other aspects of the changes and
constants that apply to our launch of Volume 2.
New Ventures
Xenia Stanford
Stanford reviews some new ventures and reasons to celebrate, including
her appointments as Publicity Director, Global Learn Day, and
Dean, Socrates Academy, and the contributions of the Board and
others to this first issue of Volume 2.
Off to the RACI: Mapping
Roles
Xenia Stanford
Mapping who will do what and when, and then
how the various roles are interdependent can make teamwork
and project planning run smoothly due to clear understanding of
communication lines. Knowing who has Responsibility and
Accountability and who must be Consulted and Informed
reduces silos and unnecessary duplication of effort. Stanford
explains how to map these roles.
Modeling
A Culture of Collaboration: Part II - Implementing a Social Venture
Barbara Weaver Smith
Part II chronicles the processes of inventing the project model,
implementing the project, and integrating it into the community
landscape. It continues the following from Vol. 1, No. 5 Modeling
A Culture of Collaboration: Part I - Designing a Social Venture
From Almost Zero
Visibility to Being Found on the Web - Part I: The Basics of Search
Engine Positioning - interview with A.H. (Al) Mierau
Xenia Stanford
Our Editor-in-Chief interviews our Positioning Director, A.H.
(Al) Mierau, on the function and strategies for search engine
positioning to gain web visibility.
Due to our policy of keeping articles short enough for busy people
to read in one sitting, the interview is found in two parts with
Part I covering the basics for success of a website, and the cost-benefit
of working with a search engine positioning expert.
From Almost Zero
Visibility to Being Found on the Web - Part II: Link Popularity,
Domain Names and Learning More from Mierau - interview with A.H.
(Al) Mierau
Xenia Stanford
Continuing the interview, Stanford asks and Mierau answers questions
about the benefits of and how to obtain link popularity and domain
names. He also mentions his basic engine positioning courses,
which you can sign up for at LVSOnline.
An Analysis of the
Book: Knowing in Firms: Understanding, Managing and Measuring
Knowledge
Michael J.D. Sutton
KnowMap Standards and Certification Advisory Director,
Sutton takes us through this book chapter by chapter to show how
the various authors explore what is to be managed in an organization
(that is, the knowledge) and how the knowledge can be managed
and measured. See also Review.
Knowing What We
Need to Know - Part III - Measuring What We Truly Need to Know
Xenia Stanford
Stanford explains how and why to map the mission and vision of
an auditing project to ensure we keep our view on what we hope
to accomplish. This part further emphasizes how one must know
the end/goal before the tool for measuring is chosen.
This ends the three part series. The first two parts can be found
as follows:
At Stanford Solutions Resource Library, available to Ruby
and Diamond level subscribers only, you will find: Map
Your Knowledge Strategy by Xenia Stanford.
Due to popular demand and with permission of the author and publishers,
we are republishing the above article from Information Outlook,
Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2001.
Also because of our policy of keeping articles short and easy
to read in one sitting, it will appear in three parts as follows:
- Part I: Background of Knowledge Mapping
- Part II: Strategy Maps and 4CI
- Part III: PCPRT, View from the Top and the Bottom Line
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