Lately I’ve been very busy writing my thesis, and often I find myself looking for the “right word”. Online dictionaries are useful, but sometimes a bit of a drag to use. I’d like to introduce you to a really useful tool - Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus. It is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with a very innovative display. Words literally come [...]

I‘m currently busy transcribing interviews and focus group sessions for my research. All I can say is that it is a painful and tedious job!
In trying to ease the pain, I searched for software that could make it a bit easier. I came across a tool called InqScribe that is really useful. All you need [...]

On 9 October I presented a colloquium on my research progress.
The topic was: “The same only diferent: towards a typology of knowledge-centric capabilities”.
For those of you who requested a copy of my slides - here it is:

Some of the discussion points from the colloquium are included below:
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My research project is getting underway. Last week Wednesday I sent out formal invitations to 75 companies to participate in my KM survey. #
The past weekend I performed a final test on the Online Survey and registered the first participants on the system. #
This morning I sent out the e-mail invitations to the first participants [...]

When writing my Literature Review I’ll explain the literature using a “map” of the KM field. Today I’ve started with the layout of the map. #

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I’m sure you could read the above sentence, but will it suffice for your Masters thesis or PhD dissertation. Definitly not!
If [...]

The past few months I’ve really been struggling to make progress with writing my dissertation. Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way? Last week Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis arrived by courier and having read the advice of Joan Bolker [...]