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WIKI: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit

Posted 5th December 2010 at 04:02 PM by Pancho

I've just finished reading Alan Porter's new book: WIKI: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit, and it does a great job of introducing this most powerful collaboration and knowledge management tool, wikis.

The book starts explaining wiki technology...

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Oquma - a new QMS-on-wiki commercial offering

Posted 11th January 2010 at 12:59 AM by Pancho

Since we started implementation of Geometrica's QMS on a wiki I have wondered when someone would develop a commercial product with this idea. Well, today I ran across Oquma, a basic, generic QMS on a wiki by Prieco, a Buenos Aires based company....

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Open Space meetings -- another great tool for collaboration

Posted 1st November 2009 at 04:07 PM by Pancho
Updated 1st November 2009 at 04:32 PM by Pancho

Some Related Topic Tags collaboration, meeting, network, open space

Have you ever been to a conference and came back thinking that your best interactions were at the coffee breaks and meals where you met surprisingly interesting folks at random?

Industry or interest group symposia typically involve sessions...

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Dvorak keyboard - one cure for RSI and bad typing habits

Posted 6th September 2009 at 07:23 PM by Pancho
Updated 6th September 2009 at 07:41 PM by Pancho

A few years ago I was developing a bad case of pain in my wrists from a lifetime habit of typing with a terrible hand position. I switched to the Dvorak keyboard. Clicking on an old bookmark brought this experience back to me today, and I thought I'd...

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Misc. Internal Links

Fishbone / Cause and Effects Animation

The Deming PDCA Cycle

Error Proofing (Poka Yoke)

Brainstorming

Identifying Waste