Goodbye for now...
There is a couple of good reasons for not blogging for a while and for leaving this blog as it is for now:
1. I made a time and effort consuming move to the Middle East and since the end of August I have been working at one of the premier institutions of tertiary education in my new host country and I simply love it - the people, the country, the students, the job, the environment, the lifestyle, simply everything about it.
2. I am working on a couple of publications now, basically building on research I did for my thesis, which takes quite some time. I haven't taken publications serious enough so far, which is a shame. BTW, thank you all so much for your interest in my thesis, I have to date responded to more than 300 emails requesting my thesis, this gave me an audience way beyond my expectations and made - in retrospect - writing it more worthwhile. I had an interesting journey doing my PhD and your feedback and comments on the finished piece were highly appreciated. I owe thanks for this primarily to Joy, Jack and Bruce for promoting my thesis on your blogs. Thank you!
3. Besides my new job and working on the publications, I am supervising MSc theses on knowledge management from my uni back home and I have taken up an offer to consult on the knowledge management strategy of a tourism firm, which roughly takes another three days off my time each month. I simply don't have the time to write a blog on top of this. BTW, I simply love technology, doing all this at once would not be possible without the - finally - good enough quality of videoconferencing and online collaboration over the internet. I am so impressed by this and I am so happy this finally became usable. I use webex, live messenger and sometimes skype and I started to seriously depend on these and enjoy them a lot.
I am leaving this blog as it is as it still gets quite some hits mainly through Google, I'd like to think of this as personal knowledge management, and maybe my ramblings here are useful for some people.
Anyways, I hope you like what you find here and I would like to express my gratitude for your attention, for dropping by and for your feedback over the last few years.
All the best,
Ingo