--- title: "Knowledge Work" url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/page/7/ description: "Knowledge Work is a weblog about technical communication, instructional design, business process analysis and the tools knowledge workers use." published: 2006-06-11 updated: 2006-06-11 --- # Knowledge Work Published 2006-06-11 Page 7 of 16 ## [Looking for a job? Better check your web presence.](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/11/looking-for-a-job-better-check-your-web-presence/) June 11, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company’s president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois. At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate’s… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/11/looking-for-a-job-better-check-your-web-presence/) ## [Early thoughts on Microsoft Vista](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/11/early-thoughts-on-microsoft-vista/) June 11, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) I have a spare laptop of recent vintage around the house, and had some time on my hands this weekend–Carrie was working; I, uncharacteristically was not–so I downloaded and installed the public beta of the much-delayed and rescoped “Longhorn,” the operating system that Microsoft is now calling… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/11/early-thoughts-on-microsoft-vista/) ## [Web Usability experts not appreciating in value](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/09/web-usability-experts-not-appreciating-in-value/) June 9, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) Jakob Nielsen (guru of all things web-usability-related) did a salary study, and here’s what he found (as reported by ZDNet.com): 1. Entry-level staffers were paid unrealistically high salaries during the bubble, when dot-com companies were desperate to hire any warm body that walked in the door 2… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/09/web-usability-experts-not-appreciating-in-value/) ## [Adventures in Open Source » “Open Source” is not a Marketing Term](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/06/adventures-in-open-source-%c2%bb-%e2%80%9copen-source%e2%80%9d-is-not-a-marketing-term/) June 6, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) Tarus Balog of the OpenNMS Group is a little exercised, and justifiably so, about a new crop of firms that see “open source” as nothing more than a marketing buzzword: Open source software development is not just about providing the source code for your application. It is much more about building a… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/06/adventures-in-open-source-%c2%bb-%e2%80%9copen-source%e2%80%9d-is-not-a-marketing-term/) ## [The Truth About Work/Life Balance](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/05/the-truth-about-worklife-balance-lifehackorg/) June 5, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) Problems with the balance between the demands of profit-driven corporations and peoples’ need to live a satisfying life won’t be cured by policy statements and procedure manuals. That isn’t where the causes lie. They’re inside peoples’ heads: obsessive achievement drive, ambition gone mad… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/05/the-truth-about-worklife-balance-lifehackorg/) ## [So you want to be a consultant?](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/04/so-you-want-to-be-a-consultant/) June 4, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself? So you want to be a consultant…? [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/06/04/so-you-want-to-be-a-consultant/) ## [The easiest way to fool smart people](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/31/the-easiest-way-to-fool-smart-people/) May 31, 2006 · [Technical communications](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/technical-communications/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) How? Talk technical-sounding rubbish. If it works for new-age airheads spouting ignorant garbage about quantum physics, it can work for you, too: I’ve been to quite a few consultancy presentations where all kinds of jargon and graphs are flashed up on the screen. The consultants will drop terms… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/31/the-easiest-way-to-fool-smart-people/) ## [The Management Myth](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/30/the-management-myth/) May 30, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead. The Management Myth (Atlantic magazine, June 2006; subscription required) [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/30/the-management-myth/) ## [Apologies](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/25/apologies/) May 25, 2006 · [Process improvement](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/process-improvement/) · [IT service management](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/it-service-management/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) …for the reduced volume of blogging over here. I’ve been working hard, but also taking a lot of training lately. Last month, I sat for (and passed) the ITIL Foundation certification exam. I’ve made a couple of quick (and very pleasant) trips to the Bay Area of California for administrative classes… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/25/apologies/) ## [The danger of IT monocultures](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-danger-of-it-monocultures/) May 24, 2006 · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/) · [Tools and techniques](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/) Dan Geer is an extremely well respected security expert. When he worries about something, people listen. One of the things he has worried - and warned - about is the danger represented by IT ‘monocultures’ - the situation that arises when everyone uses the same software, for example, and therefore… [Read the full entry](https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-danger-of-it-monocultures/)