I’m not sure where Viraj got this, but it sure sounded good.He’s got a lot of deep thoughts on his blog I’ll have to source where he gets them. Otherwise he just copies them from another spot - not that it’s a bad thing mind you, I just like to have the raw data.

Quoted from http://viraj21283.wordpress.com/ :

Top 20 Qualities of Smart People

1. Make Decisions Intuitively

Smart people listen to and follow their intuition. They know how intuitions and insights come to them and are tuned-in internally to make wise decisions.

I read a book called ‘Think like a Genius’ which led off on the same track. All the book did for me was simply confirm my suspicions. I am a genius.

Kids and Genius

However, this list of twenty things makes me more aware of being a parent. I want to make sure that I’m able to encourage everything on this list whenever possible with my kids. There’s enough in the world that tells them they can’t do things, and encouraging exploration safely has been my focus on the time I spend with them.

Manners Cards

One of the nicest tech writers at a major client’s business gave me a set of home-designed Manners Cards she had made for my oldest son to use. He loves them.

When he says ‘Please’ or helps his brother, I tell him, “Manners Cards, you earned a Manners Card!” His face then cracks into a huge smile as he repeats it. “Manners Cards, I get Manners Cards!”

If more of us could mentally check off the twenty item list here like I do with his cards, I think we’d be on our way to creating the habit of encouraging and enabling our kids to think like a genius, and feel self rewarded at the same time.

I’ll be saying to myself, “Genius Cards, I get Genius Cards!”

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My methods of technology adoption and selection caused me to closely examine desktop search engines five years ago, prior to Google coming out with their version. It also is why I was so interested in RoboHelp ten years ago. What is there past the usual Help Authoring Tool that can top this?

When it comes to refining a Knowledge Management workflow, I’ve been researching into collaboration tool adoption. I tend to look towards the internet for what the free market economy brings up.

There’s a sweet spot between the user familiarity of an email and the openness and collaboration capabilities of a wiki; I tend to use a DevBlog instead. DevBlogs, or development-based blogging, has an adoption rate of about 60% of my client base and allow remote collaboration and concept review.

Hence the DevBlog concept, and my adoption of the WordPress standard for Blogging. Most people can use the web-based Comments area because they have already adopted the technology by viewing or interacting on other people’s blogs.

I believe this is because of the subject structure, and most importantly, the ability to collate the information by relativism; nesting a family of knowledge within Workflow Collaboration such as this post falls into, allows me to communicate effectively with each part of my team since everyone knows where the related posts are.

Knowledge management could use wikis as a dream tool, however repurposing the content tends to be cumbersome. I expect that the Web 2.0 focus of MadCap Software’s Flare v3.0 addresses this issue nicely.

So the question comes down to whether there a better free tool - in this case a wiki - that can provide what the corporation needs to collaborate and collate information effectively?

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