http://blog.mathemagenic.com Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:38:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In summer I did interviews with several bloggers writing on "around knowledge management" topics about their practices of networking via weblogs. It took a while to work out summaries for those interviews (mainly due to all kinds of research issues), but now I'm happy to share them online. A bit ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/11/20/blog-networking-study-interviews/ I always wanted to work part-time after having kids. However in my twenties that was just a professional target: to become good enough to be hired to do interesting things even if I don't dedicate full working week to my work. I never knew how much having a day at ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/11/14/mamas-day-phd-work-and-being-grounded/ Collecting relevant links for my talk on blogging research yesterday I realised that a piece explaining my current view of the process is missing. So, a little story is below. It's an edited piece from the dissertation chapter on blogging PhD ideas, There I reconstruct my own process of growing ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/11/12/process-of-growing-ideas-from-fuzzy-feelings-to-finished-results/ Blogging PhD research and what happens next - presentation (an attempt of zen :) for the panel "New modes of scholarly communication: blogs, wikis, and web2.0 in academia" at Berlin 6 Open Access conference, November 11-13 2008, Dusseldorf, Germany. [I think videos should be online somewhere next week, will add a ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/11/11/blogging-phd-research-and-what-happens-next/ One of the things I want to understand in a study I'm working now is the role of weblogs in an ecosystem of tools bloggers use to connect with each other. As part of this process I looked what changed in my own ways to connect with other bloggers as ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/11/07/how-new-tools-change-the-way-i-connect-with-other-bloggers/ [When I talked about it with Bev in Copenhagen I realised it might be worth writing down] I started my PhD research with an idealistic target to create something that people would read and find useful. As I worked on it the "people" turned into bloggers, my peers on the quest ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/30/research-results-as-yesterdays-news-audiences-and-expectations/ While talking with a colleague about minimalistic presentations (~ Presentation zen style) I noticed something I didn't pay attention before: how dropping everything, including corporate templates, focuses attention on the presenter, not the organisation he represents. And then I keep wondering if those corporate templates actually do anything - when I ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/30/zen-presentations-focus-on-individual/ My recent silence (and being stuck with the last study for my dissertation as the main reason for it) is a results of an attempt to make my research more transparent and inclusive by doing it "in public". My original intentions are outlined in the study description I used to invite ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/27/on-attributing-interviews-done-for-my-research/ For quite a while I've been on a conference abstinence track - not submitting papers and limiting attendance in order not to get distracted from the PhD writing. That's said, I'm extremely happy writing a paper and going to Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place in Copenhagen. It was intense ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/20/internet-research-90-the-highlights/ It's my birthday today. It happen to be a day full of emotions - getting up early to write, driving through autumn sun to get relaxing foot massage as my birthday present, nice conversations at work, smiling at birthday greetings popping up on different channels and writing that was easy ... http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/07/33-being-present/