PpcSoft iKnow reviewed by TechRepublic

A great review of PpcSoft iKnow in TechRepublic.

"If you are willing and able to work within iKnow's workflow, it is an outstanding application. In OneNote, I tend to dump entire Web pages in, and then use the highlighter tool to mark the text that interests me. What I end up with is a collection of Web pages that I need to look through to find the useful information, and then wonder how it relates to the other items I marked.

With iKnow, you would either copy just the relevant information, or reword it to fit your needs, and it all links together. In a nutshell, iKnow requires slightly more up-front effort and care than OneNote or Evernote when creating the notes, but once they are made, using the information is much easier."
- Justin James, TechRepublic

Comments:
Unfortunately, the reviewed version had a bug which resulted in a broken tag system - this bug has been fixed !

Why are businesses reluctant to adopting the "new" social media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook ?

One important reason is that increasing conversation does not necessarily increase productivity (in fact, it can actually decrease productivity). Joel Spolsky argues in his latest Inc. column that many organizations and teams suffer from a common illness: too much communication.

And this is only considering the business-related communication - who knows how much of the conversation is with friends and family during business hours ?

Increased unnecessary communication will increase information overload and reduce productivity - and this is a major part of the reason why most businesses are slow to adopt the latest social media tools....