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DIARY: June 29, 2000 10:42 AM Thursday; Rod Welch

Received letter from Cliff Joslyn at LANL; called to discuss.

1...Summary/Objective
2...550 Email After Vacation; KM Must Solve Information Overload


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Los Alamos National Laboratory       505 665 0134
020101 - Mr. John Hogden
020102 - hogden@lanl.gov

SUBJECTS
Demo SDS via Web Site
Alliances on Development
Los Alamos National Lab
Demonstrate SDS, Communication Metrics
LANL Planning
Propose Presentation to SRI Group by Cliff Joslyn

1308 -    ..
1309 - Summary/Objective
1310 -
131001 - Follow up ref SDS 6 0000, ref SDS 4 0000.
131002 -
131003 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Cliff dated yesterday, and responding to
131004 - my letter, ref DIP 4 0001, sent on 000622, ref SDS 6 0001, answering
131005 - Cliff's letter, ref DRP 2 0001, sent on 000520. ref SDS 3 0001
131006 -
131007 - Cliff has been on vacation the past few weeks, and now is making plans
131008 - to be in the Bay Area near the end of July. ref DRT 1 6688
131009 -
131010 - Cliff asks about the report that his name comes up on KM among Doug's
131011 - DKR team meeting at SRI. ref DIP 4 4599  He asks for more information
131012 - on this. ref DRT 1 4307
131013 - ..
131014 - Cliff does not mention the 2nd letter asking if he would be able
131015 - to make a presentation to the DKR team meeting at SRI, ref DIP 6 0001,
131016 - submitted to Cliff in the record of the discussion with Marcello
131017 - Hoffman, also, on 000622. ref SDS 7 5795
131018 -
131019 - Cliff does not comment on KM being a secret of SDS, cited in the first
131020 - letter to him on 000622. ref SDS 6 5367
131021 -
131022 - He does not comment on gaining experience with SDS by letting a
131023 - contract to use it for recovery from recent fire damage sustained at
131024 - LANL. ref SDS 6 5841
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131027 -
131028 -  ..
1311 -
1312 -
1313 - 1100 called
1314 -
131401 - Left voice mail would like to discuss expediting issues.
131402 -
131403 - Sent ref DIT 1 0001 confirming voice mail, and asking Cliff to call,
131404 - when time permits, about our meeting, and whether he would be
131405 - interested in making a presentation to Doug's team meeting at SRI, for
131406 - the reasons in my letter, ref DIP 6 0001, on 000622. ref SDS 7 5795
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1317 - 1341 received response
1318 -
131801 - Cliff reports having been contacted by Doug's DKR team, and he will
131802 - follow that up. ref DRT 2 4307
131803 -
131804 -    [On 000713 Cliffed called about a meeting. ref SDS 9 0001
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SUBJECTS
Information Overload
Email Unanswered Like Desk Piled High with Paper
Information Overload Needs Intelligence
Email No Time to Read, 70 per Day

1807 -
180701 -  ..
180702 - 550 Email After Vacation; KM Must Solve Information Overload
180703 -
180704 - Cliff advises he had 550 email when he returned from vacation, and so
180705 - is working on getting caught up. ref DRT 2 0001
180706 -
180707 - This is part of the issue set out in the speaking proposal to IBM on
180708 - 000624 explaining the solution is not entirely tools. ref SDS 8 1848
180709 - ..
180710 - I crafted following but did not send it because that increase
180711 - his problem....
180712 -
180713 -     Cliff,
180714 -
180715 -     550 email is a KM problem that has to be solved; part of Pandora's
180716 -     Box, reviewed on 991108, ref SDS 1 5810, the Faustian Bargain
180717 -     resulting from short sighted thinking about the character of
180718 -     management and knowledge work.
180719 -
180720 -     Like prior technologies that compressed time and distance, a
180721 -     cultural shift is needed to accomodate our new found power to
180722 -     speak spontaneously to a wider audience.  Plan to address this in
180723 -     proposed remarks to IBM's Almaden Research Center. ref DIP 5 0001,
180724 -     developed on 000624. ref SDS 8 0001
180725 -
180726 -     Look forward to hearing from you when time permits.
180727 -
180728 -     I feel guilty sending this, making 551 email.
180729 -
180730 -     Rod
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