Mathemagenic


Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance...

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  1. The wedding dress and other cases of revisiting the past details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 8 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    Last night I had an impulsive wish to try out my wedding dress. Next to the pleasure of realising that it still fits, the experience brought lots of thoughts and...

  2. Withdrawal from blogging: broken routines details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 11 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    As a result of having less time to blog and increasing stress levels my blogging routines went broken: Then I started blogging I loved it. Reading others brought all...

  3. Withdrawal from blogging: time and stress details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 11 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    Trying to get back to “normal” blogging now it’s interesting to look back and to reflect on what happened with my blogging routines over last couple of...

  4. Environment vs. personal choice? (re: attribution and ownership of ideas) details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 12 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    It’s an interesting intersection of themes and conversations. I was writing a piece on how blogging might not work in an environment where the risks of sharing...

  5. Learning in the rain details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 13 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    It is amazing how much observing Alexander exploring rain tells about human nature: the need for a safe place to start, playing on a boundary alternating between a few...

  6. Blogging research: attribution and ownership of ideas details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 2 weeks ago by Lilia Efimova

    I’m sitting on the fence in respect to deciding how to share things I write for my dissertation: while I plan to share draft chapters online anyway, I feel that it...

  7. Developing ideas in a weblog: show vs. tell details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 2 weeks ago by Lilia Efimova

    Last week I’ve got a comment on the draft chapter that got me stuck. In the study I describe my uses of weblog to develop dissertation ideas using meta-blogging...

  8. Comparing weblog text to the PhD dissertation via tagclouds details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 2 weeks and 3 days ago by Lilia Efimova

    About a year ago I looked for Tools to find similarity between two texts (weblog and papers) - I wanted to find a relatively objective way to judge how much of my weblog...

  9. Finding confidence while bridging multiple research practices details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 3 weeks ago by Lilia Efimova

    Just because I thought about it while taking a break from writing on PIM and GTD - a quote from Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity by Etienne Wenger...

  10. Reboot10 wrap up details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 3 weeks ago by Lilia Efimova

    We went again to Reboot, with all three of us. Although I really wanted to go, I have a bit mixed feelings after that. Because the people and the topics looked so...

  11. My ideal day at work... details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 31 weeks and 3 days ago

    A few months ago I participated in a cultural probes study of communication at work. One of the things I had to do was writing about my ideal day at work. Found it...

  12. WikiDashboard: transparency, privacy and other consequences of measurement details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 31 weeks and 3 days ago

    Similar to Stowe Boyd and Jack Vinson I'm not a big fan of wikis: while they are good for collective writing when authorship of specific contributions is not...

  13. Why it's good to be a digital immigrant details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 32 weeks and 4 days ago

    Two different streams of ideas from around Online Information: First one, covered in the panel The Facebook generation and touched by other speakers is about...

  14. What I want to do when I'm done with my PhD details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 32 weeks and 5 days ago

    Back from Online Information. Hopefully I will find energy to post on all kinds of insights from it once I'm done with the introduction chapter that was...

  15. Online information 2007: my talk on weblogs and KM details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 33 weeks and 1 day ago

    The slides from my talk at Online Information today - Getting value from employee weblogs: A knowledge management approach Related: Microsoft study Lilia Efimova...

  16. Knowledge work framework (PKM + tasks) details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 33 weeks and 2 days ago

    Something that has been in my "to blog" list for a while - the current reincarnation of my personal KM models, turned into a knowledge work...

  17. Employee blogging: Making most from what is already there details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 33 weeks and 6 days ago

    A bit of a follow-up on the microactions aggregate point from my post on 'Beyond blogging' lessons learnt, where I wrote: Blogging is about microcontent - publishing...

  18. Madly letting go details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 34 weeks ago

    While trying to find things related to my previous post I came across a few posts I forgot I wrote. While reading this one I became mesmerized by "madly letting go" in...

  19. Why storytelling works? details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 34 weeks ago

    While working on my methodology chapter I realised that my interest in using alternative writing styles (e.g. authoethnography) in reporting research is also supported by...

  20. Social media and sex details »
    blog.mathemagenic.com Posted 34 weeks and 2 days ago

    Thanks to Euan Semple, a pointer to Bringing Social Media To Work by Jeremy Burton, with the quote:For most people, the human drive to connect and share is stronger than...