Government White Paper on local government
The much anticipated and long awaited Government White Paper on the future of local government is now available to download from the DCLG web site. I’ll comment once I’ve read and digested!
Innovation killed by process
I got sucked into a dispute yesterday between someone who had clearly spent a lot of time and effort formulating a strategy to connect people and departments working towards formulating polices for children’s services across the local government s…
Guidelines for Knowledge Champions
Reading Euen Semple’s blog today about his dislike for the term ‘Community Champions’, I make no apology for causing furher apoplexy by recommending the excellent “Guidelines for Knowledge Champions” posted by another renowed KM expert – Patrick L…
Narrative/Storytelling Techniques
Anyone interested in narrative (storytelling) techniques shoulld check out an excellent e-book entitled “The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles”, available as a download from the Anecdote web site.
Taxonomies and their negative impact on knowledge environments
Further to my thoughts yesterday on tags, folksonomies and file structures, I came across a much more eloquent article today on a similar theme from Knowledge Expert – Patrick Lambe entitled “How to kill a Knowledge Environment with a Taxonomy”. W…
Tags, folksonomies and file structures
I’ve been responsible for spec’ing the recently released Community of Practice (CoP) platform for IDeA, which is being made available to all local authorities in the UK public sector. I kept functionality to a bare minimum in the interests of gett…
Communities & Technology
Came across an interesting item about the relationship between communities and technology. Will be interesting to see how true all this is as we roll out the IDeA CoP platform to local authorities in the UK.
National Knowledge Project
I’ve only just noticed that the assets created as part of the National Knowledge Project have been moved. This is a useful source of reference for anyone with a ‘knowledge & information’ remit. To quote from the site “ProductShare provides a singl…
Del.icio.us
For anyone who hasn’t come across or used Del.icio.us before in the context of Social Networking – check this article out ZDNET I wouldn’t be without it!
Mobilising knowledge in the public sector
I gave a presention on 27th September at the Mobilising Knowledge in the Public Sector conference (Ark-Group) on the subject of “Increasing performance with effective communities of practice). This and other presentations from the conference are a…