Comments on: Building Your Knowledge Base

By: Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:18:02 +0000

@Dennis: Thanks! I remember chatting with a writer once (before the Internet really caught fire, back in the early 1990s), and he said that he lost many book chapters and potential content because he had no way of maintaining his mentally-growing knowledge database – he often forgot to write down notes. Today, with a mobile device, you can practically record your book with an iPhone or similar device, even while on the bus! How fortunate we are now in times that can continuously “grab” and record our thoughts and ideas and always contribute to our knowledge base. Thanks again Dennis, and good luck with Dr. Explain.

By: Dennis Crane

Dennis Crane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:21:00 +0000

Agree. Professional knowledge base is a must. After years of professional activity I accumulated tones of various information. For years, these odd bits of information were stored in different unrelated sources: e-mails, help files, document files, source code comments, browser favorites, social bookmarks, paper notebooks or simply as sticky notes on my desktop. This year I’ve finally decided to organize all my e-knowledge and installed Wiki on our company server. Now I’m happy because I get more effective.
I put my existing info there and keep adding new links, notes or articles almost daily. It requires just several minutes a day. After just a couple of months I was surprised at how valuable knowledge base I have.
Definitely recommended.

By: Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:30:04 +0000

@All My Readers – In addition to blog subscriptions, books, and classes, you can also grow your knowledge base slowly by choosing even one word a day. So, over the course of a year, you will have learned 365 new words, and in ten years that amounts to 3650 words from where you are right now.
Pretty good was to expand your knowledge base too, with one word a day!