Circadian Shift

I just did another extreme weed and kill of saved items in my aggregator. Here's some work-related stuff that survived.

KM:

• Cutting Through offers tips on Starting to blog in the corporate environment
• Cutting Through also writes about How blogs and wikis can help knowledge management
• meanwhile, Common Craft has a good post which describes wikis in plain English
• Column Two also writes about Internal Blogging and More on Internal Knowledge Management

IA:

• Information Architecture of Content Management
• Understanding Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success
• What they didn't teach me in Design & Usability school (Part 2)
• Functional Requirements Tip: "At the very least"

Web design:

• Digital Web covers The Evolution of Corporate Web Sites
• for those of you who like to build your Moveable Type templates from scratch, Anil Dash points to these HTML Editor extensions for Dreamweaver, TopStyle, TextPad and NoteTab (NoteTab, BTW, is a darned fine text editor for Windoze -- in fact, I'm using it to write this post; but I'm content to let others do the heavy lifting when it comes to constructing MT templates)
• Mezzoblue posts A Roadmap to Standards for the web
• meanwhile, over on InformIT, Meryl cautions Design without Standards? Pay the Price
• Matthew Thomas writes about when semantic markup goes bad
• Andy Budd also chimes in on Semantic Coding
• and Bobby van der Sluis writes about Presentational JavaScript (via Digital Web)
• xBlog links to a list of fonts that are common to all versions of Windows, and their Mac equivalents
• BlogPoll is a custom poll-builder which lets you post user polls on your website easily (via Cutting Through)
• Robin Good points an older post from A List Apart that covers how to do Random Image Rotation using PHP

Marketing:

• BusinessWeek comments on the divide between sales and marketing
• Clikz discusses how to Grow Your Own Analytics Team
• also on Clikz is this article about Online Forms That Generate Leads
• on a related note, Fast Company links to a report that notes companies ignore 50 percent of email complaints
• back to Clikz again for this article The One-Two Punch: SEO and PPC
• and, according to a recent Neilsen-Norman report, Web-User Satisfaction on the Upswing

General Business:

• E-biz strikes again! -- " In the first wave of disruption, Amazon, Expedia, and others rewrote the rules for books, music, and air travel. Now the Web is poised to remake at least six more major industries: jewelry, bill payments, telecom, hotels, real estate, and software."
• Bullmarket 2004: Companies That Can Help You Make Things Happen is the latest offering that you can download for free (or for a small donation) from Seth Godin
• Thinking of launching your own business? Here are 10 things to know before you start ("6. Software engineers cannot spell.")
• QuickMBA offers resources on accounting, business law, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, operations, statistics, and strategy (via bBlog)
• Here's a good question: Why Don't More CIOs Measure ROI After a Project Is Up and Running?
• The Power of Design is a BusinessWeek article that takes a look at those darlings of innovation, IDEO

[Addendum: Ugh. Just as I finally get this post online, I spot another thing in the aggregator -- InfoWorld has a special report on Enterprise Information Portals.]