E-learning, Twenty Years Later

Once upon a time I was perched at the intersection of two career choices; 1) a path towards teaching and 2) a pragmatic exploitation of technology skills that we’re becoming ever more popular in the workplace. This personal nexus point occurred about 20 years in 1996. Anyone looking at my linkedin.com profile can guess which choice I made, but the story is a little more interesting than merely that of a techie who chose economic pragmatism over...

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A New Framework for Knowledge Management

Several weeks ago I wrote two posts on the topic of Knowledge Management (KM): Whatever happened to Knowledge Management Redefining Knowledge Management This post represents the third in this series and tackles what a new framework for Knowledge Management might look like. At the highest level, the Framework that I’m proposing for KM acknowledges several new technologies that weren’t readily available back when the notion of KM was first promoted...

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Politics will Never Be The Same: Revelations & Mysteries from the Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking

A declassified version of the combined Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking of the 2016 Election was released on Friday, just after the classified version of the briefing, (Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution), was presented to President-Elect Trump. This report appears to be the final deliverable associated with President Obama’s request made several...

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Redefining Knowledge Management

Earlier this week I asked the question; “whatever happened to Knowledge Management?” The bottom line answer to that question is that perhaps the reason this once emerging field within IT has seemingly disappeared is due to the fact that it was never properly defined in the first place. This follow-up post is dedicated to examining the philosophical question more closely and trying to draw some clearer distinctions between Information, Data and Knowledge...

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Cyber Security Predictions for 2017

2016 was a big year in the annals of Cyber Security, and 2017 promises to eclipse it. While the drama of the election has largely subsided, the after-effect of the DNC attack and related Russian hacks is still building steam. President-elect Trump hinted this weekend that he had special information which he will share later this week, which in all honesty may tend to grow the controversy rather than silence it. The election hacking was not by any...

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