Which dining delicacies distinguish your city or town? In other words, if someone is visiting from somewhere else, what local food specialties would you recommend to them as indicative of your regional cuisine, and which are either unavailable or not as good elsewhere?

I came up with an acronym to…

An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity, and possibly the public telecommunication system to securely share part of an organization’s information or operations with its employees.

The corporate intranet should be the gateway to all internal web pages, systems, and repositories. It provides an…

This is the 73rd article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. Annie Green is a knowledge strategist and architect who has led several KM initiatives. She helps individuals and organizations think and learn. …

The user interface is the point of entry to a knowledge management system that provides navigation, search, communication, help, news, site index, site map, and links to all tools.

To make it easy for users to access the people, process, and technology components offered by your KM program, provide an…

Storytelling is using narrative to ignite action, implement new ideas, communicate who you are, build your brand, instill organizational values, foster collaboration to get things done, share knowledge, neutralize gossip and rumor, and lead people into the future.

Storytelling can stimulate change, build trust, instill values, enable collaboration, and transmit…

Originally answered Sep 17, 2021

1. You have saved six months’ salary or more that you will keep in savings, and now you have additional funds that you can invest.
2. You understand that unlike savings, investments can go down in value, and that you can lose some or all of the money you will invest.
3. You understand that past performance of a prospective investment is no guarantee of future performance.
4. You have done some reading about investing and understand the basics, including stocks, bonds, no-load mutual funds, index funds, ETFs, REITs, Roth IRAs, 401Ks, expense ratios, and dollar cost averaging.
5. You are planning to invest for the long term.

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Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Deviance are two methods for identifying what works well and what could be and allowing organizations to take advantage of these findings. Both methods take a positive approach to change, instead of focusing on problems to solve or obstacles to overcome.

Appreciative Inquiry is abbreviated as…

This is the 72nd article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. Harold Jarche (pronounced jar-key) is an international consultant and speaker, helping people and businesses adapt to the network era. Harold provides pragmatic guidance on connected leadership, social learning, personal knowledge mastery, and workplace…