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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Make it a policy to have some white space as part of your week.

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Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process

TechCrunch

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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Gloat raises $57M to reinvent the internal job board

TechCrunch

With talent retention and brain drain continuing to be big issues in a number of industries, it seems like a ripe time to address all of that.

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What Business Leaders Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources.

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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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