Category: Best Practices

  • How Does a K-Log Work for Notification?

    Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers’ email queues: Reuters:  Managers drowning in e-mail. A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<<  There is an answer to this:  post it to…

  • Automated Aggregation!

    Ask and ye shall receive. Now I have to admit my failure of reading comprehension, as I did not grok from Dave’s explanation a week ago that the Multi-Author Weblog tool has exactly the feature I wished for in my previous entry. Mark Paschal, ever helpful, commented thusly: Autoposting from feeds is what the Multi-Author…

  • Automated Aggregation?

    In the interests of offering one-stop shopping, I figure I should cross-post here pretty much anything I blog anywhere else (as always, by category). Frankly, though, it’s tedious to cut-and-paste or even post through the aggregator (plus my LiveJournal’s RSS feed is headlines-only). I wonder if it might be possible to write a script to…

  • Using Blog Software as a CMS

    Brad Choate point to the technical colophon of a site called A Touch of Hope, for a description of how to use blogging software (in this case Movable Type) as a full-service backend CMS for multiple users… with a little tweaking.

  • Radiospecific: How I Solved My Category Problem

    I was having a hell of a time getting design changes to propagate out to my categories. It turned out that in the early days of this blog when I Was experimenting with many of the canned themes and giving each category its own design, these choices decoupled the categories from the home page in…

  • Knowledge Management Weblog Entry Aggregator (Using Trackback Pings)

    (Via blogroot/blogpopuli.blog) KMpings is a collection of Knowledge Management TrackBack pings. The site offers instructions on how to ping it with or without Movable Type. This should be a good one-stop shopping info source regarding knowledge management.