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It could be a sign of age, but I enjoy thinking back occasionally and consider where I was and what I have done and learned through the years. It\u2019s a wonderful gift we have of somehow storing a lifetime of experience within our minds. The easiest way to get it out and share is what I am doing right now.<\/p>\n
Early man (I despise the term \u201cprimitive\u201d) was also aware of this. (I use the word man in its generic sense.) Primitive may be a correct term in its purest meaning, but it conjures up the idea that early man was dumb or stupid. I believe we were exactly opposite that, at least the survivors were.<\/p>\n
There has always been a desire to somehow share what each of us knows. Gossip is probably one of the lowest forms of sharing thoughts and probably the oldest. Ha! I don\u2019t write gossip. Well\u2026 not usually.<\/p>\n
The Internet has created an explosion of communication. It has brought simple publication to the masses. I never thought I would be a writer. Maybe I am still not by some definitions, but I do a lot of writing and web publication. I must admit I am not a professional writer, nor do I pretend that I am.<\/p>\n
However, I was always the person who ended up writing and publishing the newsletters of every club and association I belonged. Amateur radio clubs, model and EAA airplane clubs, Rotary International clubs, if I was a member, I was editor\/publisher. I even shared writing a newspaper column for a couple of years. I was documenting history in a real sense.<\/p>\n
Today the Internet rules – as I have more web sites and blogs than I ever thought I could maintain. Actually there are more than I can maintain. Ha! But I keep hacking away.<\/p>\n
For me it is like keeping a very public journal or chronicle. I just can\u2019t keep what\u2019s in my mind under lock and key. Like I said, I think it is a very basic need of the human race to share and preserve what we know. Teaching is human nature and writing creates a long lasting record of human thought and activity, a record of lessons learned. Man has always kept a record of history either verbally, by signs, and when able by writing. The Internet and electronic publishing has become the world\u2019s largest journal of information.<\/p>\n
So here is what is happening now. I have spent the last week in designing a system for preserving lessons learned in my place of employment. It is intranet based web site with a blog and additional photo and document storage. It is completely searchable with an inquiry system; I cannot think of a simpler, easy to build system to store and retrieve written random thoughts and events commonly called a \u201clesson learned\u201d. \u00a0What wonderful documentation tools we have today.<\/p>\n
At work we often have meetings where we discuss \u201clessons learned.\u201d We all nod our heads in agreement especially after the completion of a difficult project, that we learned something. However, there is no place that \u201clesson\u201d got published where it could be recalled when needed; it has to stay \u201cstuck\u201d in our heads. Now that\u2019s what I call primitive.<\/p>\n
I know there are complete business systems today to manage what I am doing in my internal web site. There is a coworker managing a “LL” for product defects a few cubes away from me. It is 20X more complex than what I need. Perhaps one day I will move my project to such a system. But for now I have to show it can be done and discover if we all will actually use the system. It is shame on us if we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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