Managing Personal Information and Knowledge Needs

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I am honoured to have been asked by the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange (NetIKX) to give a talk/presentation at their AGM on 29th September about the challenges facing information professionals in today’s digitally connected world. Exciting times – challenging times. Has there ever been a better time to be an infiormation professional?

Please register for the meeting if this is a topic that may be of interest to you.

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Managing personal information and knowledge needs and NetIKX AGM

Speaker: Stephen Dale, Mark Field

Date: 29-09-2010

Location and time: The Intellectual Property Office, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3HF, (nearest underground station Tottenham Court Road)

Overview: Successful organisations and the individuals within them need to adapt to an increasingly challenging environment. The challenges are not only economic, political, social and technological, but also related to the wealth (and volume) of information and knowledge available to us. This exponential growth in the information and knowledge we receive and generate daily, making sense of the content, indeed sifting through the content to find the nuggets of value, and then managing it appropriate is increasingly a challenge. It demands new ways of working.

Thriving as a 21st Century Information Professional 1. Stephen Dale. The volume of information continues to grow at an exponential rate; new tools, products and web services appear almost daily. The recession has hit hard but nothing seems to stem the tide of innovation. If anything, the economic climate has fuelled even greater innovation and allowed companies to be even more radical in the way they use the information tools and platforms now available. These are challenging times for the information professional. We all need to be able to work smarter, acquiring and developing the skills to become more effective knowledge and information workers. The talk/presentation will pinpoint the tools and behaviours that can help us develop and sharpen our skills and embrace the opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing now available. Specifically: – how to develop the filters and lenses to overcome ‘information overload’ – understanding the barriers to engagement and collaboration and how to overcome them – how we can break down the information/knowledge silos that exist in the organisation – how ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘Social Media’ tools can support personalized learning and self development

2. Mark Field. Knowledge management teams have been seen as specialist function delivering a set of discreet services. This raises the question of who actually “owns” knowledge management in organisations. Mark’s presentation will challenge us to: – Consider where knowledge management should sit and more importantly what would make that ‘place’ sustainable: capable of generating business value and improving exploitation of corporate knowledge? – Consider how we raise the overall level of competence in managing and exploiting personal knowledge in the organisational setting, such that the individual benefits from the transaction – Consider how we are able to harness and co-ordinate the enabling functions for meaningful personal knowledge management Read more at www.netikx.org

About Post Author

Stephen Dale

I’m a life-long learner with an insatiable curiosity about life. I love travel, good food, and good company. I’m happy to share what I know with others….even the interesting stuff! My outlook on life is pretty well captured in this quote from a book about the legend of King Arthur: “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King So much to learn, so little time!

steve.dale@gmail.com

http://stephendale.uk

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