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DIARY: February 17, 2001 11:06 PM Saturday; Rod Welch

Letter cites POIMS and requests participation in KM forum.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Autonomy Strong Search Engine for Internet
3...POIMS Cited for Bayesian Neural Networks to Extract Patterns
4...Brint Developing DKR for Technology and KM
5...Attribution Not Evident In Denham's Reference to POIMS
.....Attribution to Welch, NWO and POIMS on Denham Grey's Web
......Information Distinguished from Knowledge
.........KM Supports Social Skills


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SUBJECTS
KM Define POIMS
Intelligence Converts Information Overload from IT into Useful Knowl
Information Different from Knowledge Explained Somewhere on Web Site
POIMS KM Standard Reviewed by Brint.Com
Organizational Memory Knowledge Repository Capture Experience Defines

3307 -    ..
3308 - Summary/Objective
3309 -
330901 - Follow up ref SDS 87 0000, ref SDS 86 0000.
330902 -
330903 - Letter from Denham Grey, who is a KM advocate on Internet, cites Welch
330904 - work on POIMS and NWO, which helps advertise opportunity to transition
330905 - from IT to KM. ref SDS 0 GF4H  The letter requests participation in a
330906 - discussion about KM.  There is not enough time for this.  Wrote back
330907 - and mentioned need for attribution. ref SDS 0 RH6L
330908 -
330909 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Denham thanking him for interest in POIMS
330910 - and asking about attribution policies in relation to encouraging
330911 - contribution to Brint's DKR, per below. ref SDS 0 RH6L
330912 -
330913 -    [On 010218 received follow up from Denham. ref SDS 90 0001
330914 -
330915 -
330916 -
330917 -
330918 -  ..
3310 -
3311 -
3312 - Progress
3313 -
331301 -  ..
331302 - Autonomy Strong Search Engine for Internet
331303 - POIMS Cited for Bayesian Neural Networks to Extract Patterns
331304 -
331305 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Denham Grey who provides a link to....
331306 -
331307 -       http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/9205.html
331308 -
331309 - ...which says the following....
331310 -      ..
331311 -      Posted by Denham on February 17, 2001 at 23:56:31:
331312 -
331313 -      In Reply to: Extracting meaning posted by Denham on February 16,
331314 -      2001 at 14:59:24:
331315 -
331316 -      POIMS = plan, organize, integrate, measure.
331317 -
331318 -      "POIMS technology supports the "intelligence" process by making
331319 -      it fast and easy to accumulate chains of related information that
331320 -      preserve chronology so that cause and effect can be retrieved
331321 -      when needed for decision support. This greatly expands span of
331322 -      attention, and so reduces mistakes and the cost of rework. The
331323 -      technology assembles related information accurately, so that even
331324 -      a busy mind can align the work with requirements to avoid
331325 -      mistakes that otherwise cause extra expense, delay and hurt
331326 -      feelings. Cost savings are significant, because the technology
331327 -      applies the basic mental process of alignment to the full range
331328 -      of complex information managers encounter dealing with people,
331329 -      contracts, policies, laws, regulations, plans, budgets and so
331330 -      on."
331331 -      ..
331332 -      What do you think??
331333 -
331334 -                      ***************
331335 -
331336 -
331337 -  ..
331338 - Brint Developing DKR for Technology and KM
331339 -
331340 - Denham seems to be working from a KM "portal" discussion group, they
331341 - call a Zwiki, or Wiki, similar to Doug's KM project, except they do
331342 - not seem to be building tools.  Actually, brint.com seems to be
331343 - something like the DKR in that it has information on different
331344 - subjects.
331345 -
331346 - This location is part of.....
331347 -
331348 -
331349 -                 http://www.brint.com/
331350 -
331351 -
331352 - ...which is described as "The Biztech network," and lists resources
331353 - for...
331354 -       ..
331355 -       General business
331356 -
331357 -          http://www.brint.com/links/
331358 -
331359 -       Business technology
331360 -
331361 -          http://www.brint.com/interest.html
331362 -
331363 -       E-business
331364 -
331365 -          http://www.brint.com/ebiz/
331366 -
331367 -       Knowledge Management
331368 -
331369 -          http://www.brint.com/km/
331370 - ..
331371 - A good exercise for Doug's team would be to visit brint.com and
331372 - explain how the DKR is planned to provide additional support for
331373 - solving world problems.
331374 - ..
331375 - Denham's letter today is asking for input from others on POIMS
331376 - information at welchco.com, ref OF 1 0001, based on the explanation of
331377 - "intelligence" from the Welch home page....
331378 -
331379 -       http://www.welchco.com/00401.HTM#0195
331380 -
331381 - There is no attribution in Denham's reference to....
331382 -
331383 -
331384 -    http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/9205.html
331385 -
331386 -  ..
331387 - ...that explains the original source for information on POIMS.
331388 - ..
331389 - Denham says in his letter today, "....thought you might be
331390 - interested to pop by and say a word or two??" ref DRT 1 0001
331391 -
331392 - It is not entirely, clear, but Denham's letter citing POIMS, per
331393 - above....
331394 -
331395 -      Extracting meaning posted by Denham on February 16, 2001 at
331396 -      14:59:24, ref SDS 0 QW9G
331397 -
331398 - ....appears to respond to another letter he posted for general
331399 - discussion on KM from a link in the line that says....
331400 -
331401 -      The February, 2000 issue of Wired Magazine had an interesting
331402 -      article on Autonomy (pp172-179) describing how this super search
331403 -      engine uses neural networks and Bayesian statistics to extract
331404 -      the patterns from a wide variety of media.  Autonomy is
331405 -      independent of language but the usefulness depends on the
331406 -      quality of your training set.
331407 -
331408 -         ttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy.html 331409 - ..
331410 - Thus, Denham may have associated the explanation of POIMS with
331411 - the Wired Magazine article on Autonomy that seems to describe an AI
331412 - search engine along the lines Jack Park proposes for SDS in his letter
331413 - on 001130. ref SDS 78 MN3W  Earlier on 000623 Jack proposed turning an
331414 - "engine" loose on the record. ref SDS 42 2915  On 001025 this idea was
331415 - reviewed again. ref SDS 59 KY5K
331416 -
331417 -      On 991213 NSF reviewer for Welch proposal cited Bayesian stuff as
331418 -      basis for not supporting research in Com Metrics. ref SDS 19 V14J
331419 -      and ref SDS 19 3234
331420 -
331421 -
331422 -  ..
331423 - Attribution Not Evident In Denham's Reference to POIMS
331424 -
331425 - On 000227 there is a report on Jim Spohrer's presentation to Doug
331426 - Engelbart's Colloquium at Stanford on KM saying attribution is
331427 - important to encourage contributions to discussions contemplated for
331428 - supporting a dynamic knowledge repository (DKR). ref SDS 28 0987  On
331429 - 010211 Jim is a KM research scientist with IBM's Almaden Research
331430 - Center in San Jose, California. ref SDS 89 04YW
331431 -
331432 -    [On 010218 Denham says something about social pathologies in
331433 -    connection with attribution, which seems to imply a restraint on
331434 -    this requirement. ref SDS 90 FC6L
331435 -
331436 - Brint.com seems to offer DKR-type capability, per above. ref SDS 0 NP3N
331437 - ..
331438 - Attribution is part of "intelligence" that links original
331439 - sources for traceability and alignment cited on 950721 in ISO 10006 as
331440 - essential for effective management, ref SDS 10 1740, and therefore
331441 - useful for KM.
331442 -
331443 -     On 000423 attribution is specified for OHS/DKR. ref SDS 31 2597
331444 -
331445 -     On 000505 attribution is not carried out uniformly, takes extra
331446 -     time to create links to original sources. ref SDS 35 0375
331447 -
331448 -     On 000601 example of attribution for requirements on KM to support
331449 -     alignment, which in turn makes attribution fast and easy.
331450 -     ref SDS 39 4997
331451 -
331452 -      ..
331453 -     Attribution to Welch, NWO and POIMS on Denham Grey's Web
331454 -
331455 -     Naturally, it is helpful to have POIMS reviewed, per planning on
331456 -     000802. ref SDS 48 3657
331457 -
331458 -     On other pages, Denham lists Welch by name as a KM resource, and
331459 -     lists POIMS separately.
331460 -
331461 -              http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?PersonalKnowledge
331462 -
331463 -         Rod Welch talks Englebart:
331464 -
331465 -     ....the associated link is to an explanation of meaning drift in
331466 -     NWO, ref OF 2 9449,
331467 -
331468 -         http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/03/02/03/0309.HTM#9449
331469 -
331470 -     ....rather than to any discussion with or about Doug....
331471 -
331472 -
331473 -  ..
331474 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Denham thanking him for interest in POIMS
331475 - and asking about attribution policies in relation to encouraging
331476 - contribution to Brint's DKR. ref DIT 1 QH6L
331477 -
331478 -    [On 010218 Denham says something about social pathologies in
331479 -    connection with attribution, which seems to imply a restraint on
331480 -    this requirement. ref SDS 90 FC6L
331481 -
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331483 -
3315 -

SUBJECTS
Information Different from Knowledge Explained Somewhere on Web Site

3404 -
340401 -       ..
340402 -      Information Distinguished from Knowledge
340403 -
340404 -      Explain having reviewed Denham's ideas on KM. ref DIT 1 TA7I
340405 -
340406 -            http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?PersonalKnowledge
340407 -
340408 -      Somewhere awhile ago I noticed something Denham wrote on
340409 -      distinguishing information from knowledge.   It is not really
340410 -      evident in the material at the above location.
340411 -
340412 -          Information and knowledge were reviewed on 000517 at Intel.
340413 -          ref SDS 37 3976
340414 -      ..
340415 -      Today, in the reply to Denham, suggest he review further
340416 -      POIMS and NWO to build on his ideas about moving from information
340417 -      to knowledge, which can help build a culture of knowledge
340418 -      essential to transition from IT to KM, ref DIT 1 TA7I, per letter
340419 -      to SRI on 001011. ref SDS 56 0001
340420 -      ..
340421 -      Explain that the only way to grasp KM is by doing KM,
340422 -      rather than talking about KM while doing IT, ref DIT 1 TA7I, per
340423 -      the letter from John Maloney, with KMCI, reviewed recently on
340424 -      010114. ref SDS 86 EK3I  On 001121, this idea was presented to
340425 -      SRI's team led by Doug Engelbart working on an OHS/DKR project.
340426 -      ref SDS 74 XU8I
340427 -
340428 -         [On 010218 Denham is reviewing POIMS using Wiki for a DKR;
340429 -         requests support to understand role of time in KM. ref SDS 90
340430 -         AY6M
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3405 -

SUBJECTS
Social People Skills Major Part of KM Not Technology
KM Define POIMS
KM 2 Groups Orality and Tools TQM Project Management Human Systems, a
Collaboration Common Basis 2 KM Groups Tools and People Skills
Natural Intelligence v Tools Orality 2 KM Groups TQM Project Manageme
Salesmanship Leadership TQM Moved to KM
Reengineer Enterprise Management KM AI Project Management Use Tech to

4710 -
471001 -          ..
471002 -         KM Supports Social Skills
471003 -
471004 -         Knowledge is embodied in people gathered in communities and
471005 -         networks. The road to knowledge is via people and those
471006 -         connections (yellowpages, directories). Knowledge surfaces
471007 -         through dialog, all knowledge is socially mediated and access
471008 -         to knowledge is by connecting to people that know or know who
471009 -         to contact. In the knowledge economy, connections and
471010 -         relationships count more than personal knowhow and access to
471011 -         content. The environment changes so fast, the optimum
471012 -         knowledge strategy is instant access to people & their ideas
471013 -         and continuous awareness & learning in a supportive community.
471014 -         People and discourse communities provide the 'filter'
471015 -         mechanism for alerting and awareness. This helps to keep your
471016 -         focus, provides market intelligence and affords a platform for
471017 -         negotiating meaning and value. A key heuristic is to: annotate
471018 -         complex documents with contact people who can coach, situate
471019 -         and explain. This is a higher quality connection than
471020 -         hyperlinking to yet more content.
471021 -             ..
471022 -             This perspective reflects John Maloney's ideas on KM
471023 -             as social skills, reviewed 010114, ref SDS 86 EK3I, that
471024 -             resists technology for aiding human mental process of
471025 -             constructing knowledge.  Resistance to advance through
471026 -             technology is commonly embodied by Luddites, as reported
471027 -             on 001219. ref SDS 80 MJ2P
471028 -
471029 -               [On 010218 Denham confirms thinking about KM as
471030 -               relationships, and little about technology. ref SDS 90
471031 -               NH5R
471032 -
471033 -               [On 010321 POIMS explains two branches of KM.
471034 -               ref SDS 91 0001
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