Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

Kwami Ahiabenu,II The advent of electronic payment system has led many to predict it will become a predominate means of payment overcoming traditional means of payment as leaders in global payment system. Literature points to the fact that the electronic payment is quite ubiquitous in developed countries but in developing countries such as Ghana this phenomenon is relatively very new. In recent times most financial institutions in Ghana are striving to introduce products and solution that provide means for electronic payments. The study proposes measures that can improve the current payment system on one hand and it also assessed the prospects of introducing electronic payment system in Ghana . Using a questionnaire, the researcher interviewed key stakeholders in the financial sector and analyzed the results using descriptive statistics .The researcher describes the history and development of electronic payment system Ghana . The study found out that the electronic payment service...

Communities of practice( often abbreviated as CoP) - Networks of people who work together in an organization and who regularly share information and knowledge - are communities of people who share the same profession, situation, or vocation and their goal to share information and knowledge is the glue that holds them together - In organizational development (OD) concept of a community of practice refers to the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. CoP is crucial to the success of any knowledge management strategy. As the communities of practice go through a series of stages in their evolution, they provide the platform for knowledge exchange. see 1.Knowledge Management - Keys to Successful Communities of Practice (Networks) http://tinyurl.com/2ags3l 2. Community of Practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Practice

The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web which facilitate the ease in finding, sharing and combination of data, information and knowledge enabled by machine processable capability rather than only human oriented processing. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C ( The World Wide Web Consortium the main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web (W3) with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. two core characteristics can be stated here 1. common platform for integration and combination of data from varied sources 2. language for recording how data relates to the real world The Semantic Web is seen as an extension to the existing World Wide Web towards (better) processing of semantically marked-up content through software processes. Machine-readable data is a pre...

I am speaking to the students African Institute of Journalism and Communications www.aijcghana.com/ on Friday Feb 07 at 12:30pm on the topic : "Online Journalism - Challenges and the Future" broadly speaking, my presentation would focus on : 1. theory of online journalism and its dynamic contest with grandfather(traditional journalism) 2. would share practical example of online journalism at work 3. conclude with the future of online journalism pointing out some of innovative opportunities while not losing sight of challenges

this article reinforces the need to take the path of least resistance through alignment http://www.mindthis.net/mindthis/2007/01/shared_calendar.html it emphasis the urgent need to align work and knowledge management moving away from the separation of work and KM activities to a situation where KM can take place without the need for additional effort on behalf of individuals

The McMaster World Congress is claimed to be the world's largest congregation of Intellectual Capital, Strategic Business Valuation & Corporate Governance experts! themes 1. 9th World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation 2. 4th World Congress on Corporate Governance 3. 1st World Congress on Strategic Business Valuation This event will take place from January 24th-26th, 2007 at the Hamilton Convention, Ontario, Canada http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca/2007/

Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"

Kwami Ahiabenu,II Found a new search experience called SNAP. According to " snap website Snap is an Idealab company located in Pasadena, California, home of Cal Tech, the Rose Bowl, and the Doo Dah parade. We're a small group fighting a big battle to deliver a step-function change in the search experience. Together, we have over 70 years of search experience and way more than 100 years of online marketing and e-commerce experience. We're passionate, committed and are confident enough to think we can make a difference." So what does Snap offer? The other way to search(TM) Snap is saying they think Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the rest of the big search players have settled on the wrong search paradigm: text-in, text-out with slight differences in their ranking methods and index sizes. Snap claims their new search engine offers a very different alternative to the Big Search, Text-In, Text-Out, method. Some key features of Snap Fast Visual Display of Results Previews Acti...

Kwami Ahiabenu,II The internet has 55 billions webpages and growing very rapidly at the speed of light. Web Search is hard, google is the most popular but even google does not have all pages on the web, though its index is growing Recently, I got to know that, there is a growing competitive search market with a lot of playing aiming to capture some of this market. Of course what about an open source search platform. The founder of wikipedia,Jim Wales has launched http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia aimed at developing a wiki-inspired search engine by community members.It is envisage that the end product would be a people-powered search results powered by an open-source alternative for web search. A new community is talking about this at http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l , very interesting discussion is going on here

I have written or read about E-commerce but this is the first time, I can across E-commerce and Poverty Can E-commerce alleviate Poverty, this is the subject of a recent posting at http://www.krooman.com/?p=11 where Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is defined as the use of the internet and web to transact business. More formally, digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals. Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) has almost overnight become the dominant on-line activity. Equally quickly it has become a significant element in commercial activities globally, particularly in the developed countries where suitable infrastructure support is available. Some types of e-commerce were provided. The article mentioned e-commerce as one of ICT tools and it point that evidence supports that claim that ICT can reduce poverty. E-commerce especially can contribute to wealth creation. Practical examples are given about how E-commerce can reduce poverty but it poin...

With a lot of blogs in the cyberspace with different types of content, your email could end up on a blog Can you prevent this? maybe Not maybe Yes At least you can make your intentions known by adding to your signature this line This e-mail is: [ ] blogable [ ] ask first [ ] private you put an x in blogable is you want your email to end up on the blog if you want people to ask your permission you go for ask first lastly for mails you do not want to end up on blogs click on private cool

Managing organisational silos of knowledge is not one of the easiest thing to do in Knowledge Management but it must be done if you are going to be successful at knowledge management. A recent white paper by EMC Connection provides some interesting insight into Managing Corporate Silos of Knowledge at Managing Corporate Silos of Knowledge

Kwami Ahiabenu,II In our new digital age, you can not survive without subscribing to a email list or two but some time when you want to leave the list (unsubscribe)it may become a difficult if not impossible largely due to mailing list subscription feature not working or the mailing list owner not allowing you to go. So for a lot of persons, a guarantee that if the want to unsubscribe they would not be confronted with problems becomes a key requirement for joining mailing lists. Recently, I saw SafeUnsubscribe™, which is basically a guarantee to offer instant remover from the list when you want to opt out of the list. SafeUnsubscribe™ is part of an offering from http://constantcontact , which provides email marketing services in general. And you can only use SafeUnsubscribe™ if you purchase purchase constantcontact product, they are currently offering a 60 days free trial, no credit card is required to sign up ends

Kwami Ahiabenu,II A number of websites especially news websites offers you an opportunity to add free dynamic news headlines to your website. To enable this service, you have to go through some basic steps First find out a website which offers webfeed 1. fill out a registration form which requires you to provide your email address, the url of website you intended to publish the feed toetc. Information about terms and conditions are also provided here and you are expected to read and accept them 2. you have to configure your dynamic news feed by going through the following steps a. select news for your feed from the website menu of news, for example, technology news if you only want technology news headlines or combination of news such technology and Internet, for example etc b. select and customize your news feed layout c. after going through step a and b, HTML coed would be generated for you d. get the HTML script by copying it e. integrate this HTML by usually pasting this HTML to a...

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Happy New Year, 2007!

by Kwami Ahiabenu,II I have used wiki in the past as the tool for teaching basically providing space for my students to do collaborative writing the key here is to give them a practical experience about how the tool works the free tool I use is called http://pbwiki.com/ peanut butter, is that not very sweet this tool enable you to create a wiki within a second, with option for people to contribute to it by providing them with a password you have the option to upgrade to a premium option if you are ready and willing to pay for it basically you get a ad free wiki among others in recent time, pbwiki just added a page for educators http://pbwiki.com/edu.html using this feature you can create a cool online tool for teaching and learning by getting your syllabus online and empowering students with a tool to collaborate online with their instructors I am looking forward to make use wiki in my next class

YouTube is a popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Founded in February 2005 by three employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. Manage to post some videos online using You Tube recently very easy hope to do more projects with You Tube and use it in teaching as well www.youtube.com