Thanks to Steve Wheeler (aka @timbuckteeth) for picking up the conversation I started on Twitter where I defined a Taxonomist as: One who organizes information in ways that make sense to content providers, rather that content users. Steve’s ripost…
Just picked up from Nick Milton’s blog, the Kuwait Petroleum Company have published a series of case studies from the communities of practice his company helped them to launch and build over the last year. Some of thee case studies include early-s…
The following abstract is from “Social Networking Literacy Competencies for Librarians: Exploring Considerations and Engaging Participation”, Contributed Paper, ACRL 14th National Conference, Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend, 14th March 2…
Great blog post from Nick Milton , all about the Knowledge Management culture shift. I’d seen this before, but worth repeating since I think it encapsulates the key elements of collaboration in successful communities of practice, a key area of wor…
I’ve given a few talks and presentations recently to various groups and departments from the UK public sector on the dichotomy between the traditional and highly structured information management (IM) disciplines and the almost anarchic environmen…
For anyone that has been following the US Now project the film is now online to watch. For anyone else this is the background: In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power? Us Now is a documentary film project about the power…
I’m pleased to announce that the IDeA CoP Platform won an award at the GC Awards yesterday evening. The award was for the best public sector project for collaborative working, and can be placed alongside the award we won at the National e-Governme…
For anyone who has not yet made a submission for the 2009 Online Conference, the deadline has now been extended to Friday 8th May. The organisers want to hear from people and organisations that have transformed themselves to be more agile and flex…
I’ve recently signed up to LocalGovCamp, an ‘unconference’ for local government. Taking place on 20 June 2009, at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. If there is the time and the interest, I am hoping to run a session on a major new initiative to b…
Another ‘plain English’ video to from Lee Lefever in his inimitable style making complex subjects easy to understand for the layperson. This one gives a short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers and links.
