--- title: "Knowledge Work" url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/page/10/ description: "Knowledge Work is a weblog about technical communication, instructional design, business process analysis and the tools knowledge workers use." published: 2006-04-12 updated: 2006-04-12 --- # Knowledge Work Published 2006-04-12 Page 10 of 16 ## [The 13th Best Job In America](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/12/the-13th-best-job-in-america/) April 12, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) MONEY Magazine’s Best Jobs: #13 - Technical writer [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/12/the-13th-best-job-in-america/) ## [San Jose Mercury News: H-1B visa law criticized](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/11/san-jose-mercury-news-h-1b-visa-law-criticized/) April 11, 2006 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) When a Sunnyvale tech company laid off the manager and most of his colleagues in its reliability testing group a year and a half ago, the manager said a few employees were spared — younger, foreign workers on H-1B visas. The laid-off manager was infuriated that as an American citizen, he wasn’t… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/11/san-jose-mercury-news-h-1b-visa-law-criticized/) ## [One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/11/one-hundred-rules-for-nasa-project-managers/) April 11, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) NASA project manager Jerry Madden, the Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, was a legend in his field. He began collecting and assembling a set of rules for project managers early in his career; after Jerry retired in 1995, others maintained… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/11/one-hundred-rules-for-nasa-project-managers/) ## [Pink Elephant Wins New Global Accreditation](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/09/pink-elephant-wins-new-global-accreditation/) April 9, 2006 · [IT service management](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/it-service-management/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) Pink Elephant today announced it has become the first organisation to receive worldwide accreditation for a new integrated ITIL® certification course that will enable practitioners to effectively manage, organise and optimise the Support and Restore processes, and minimise the adverse effects of… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/09/pink-elephant-wins-new-global-accreditation/) ## [Inaction does not save you](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/09/inaction-does-not-save-you/) April 9, 2006 · [Process improvement](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/process-improvement/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) “If you do not assume responsibility for breaking the system in the way you want it broken and then integrating it to a better plateau, it will break by itself to a worse plateau. So inaction does not save you; it gives the power of your demise to outside forces.” Ichak Adizes, Managing Corporate… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/09/inaction-does-not-save-you/) ## [The Great Indian Tech Sale](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/08/the-great-indian-tech-sale/) April 8, 2006 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/) Some major acquisitions activity, possibly presaging a trend towards consolidation, in the Indian offshore/outsourcing space. EDS has apparently just picked up a big chunk (in excess of 40%) of Mphasis: The EDS-Mphasis deal is part of an ongoing trend that has software and BPO firms shifting large… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/08/the-great-indian-tech-sale/) ## [BBSes and blogs](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/07/bbses-and-blogs/) April 7, 2006 · [Blog notes](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/blog-notes/) A great question over at MetaTalk brings the BBSers out of the woodwork: “Were you a BBSer? Did you run a BBS?” The person asking the question has noted some similarities between BBS culture and blog culture, and I think that’s a very good observation. For those of you who weren’t around or weren’t… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/07/bbses-and-blogs/) ## [USNews.com: America’s Best Graduate Schools 2007](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/03/usnewscom-americas-best-graduate-schools-2007/) April 3, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) The 2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” has just come out; if you’ve been thinking about adding a graduate degree to your resume, you’ll want to give this comprehensive ranking of the best programs in the United States at least a quick once-over. USNews.com: America’s Best Graduate… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/03/usnewscom-americas-best-graduate-schools-2007/) ## [H-1B visas hit roadblock in Congress](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/02/h-1b-visas-hit-roadblock-in-congress/) April 2, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) A plan to boost the number of temporary visas is facing obstacles in the U.S. Congress, despite the plan’s popularity with technology companies and foreign workers. Supporters of H-1B visas–reserved for highly skilled guest workers–applauded a move Monday by a U.S. Senate committee to nearly double… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/04/02/h-1b-visas-hit-roadblock-in-congress/) ## [How pink slips hurt more than workers](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/03/29/how-pink-slips-hurt-more-than-workers/) March 29, 2006 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/) Is the layoff the great American wound? In Louis Uchitelle’s account, it seems a wound in triplicate. It hollows out companies so they can’t compete. It hollows out the country by removing middle-class jobs. It hollows out the middle-class employees who are laid off and then too often drop… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/03/29/how-pink-slips-hurt-more-than-workers/)