I was looking for some inspiration in putting together some guidelines, rules and policies for online communities of practice. Nancy White over at Full Circle Associates is always a good starting place for this sort of thing. Here is another examp…
So, we wake up today to the news that our favorite government agency – Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been responsible for the loss of personal data for 25 million people. The data included names, addresses, bank details, national in…
I will be presenting at the Online Information Conference 2007 on Wednesday 5th December, on the topic “Communities of Practice in Local Government”, which is part of the overall theme of connecting users and harnessing intelligence using social n…
Just picked up a new blog by Caren Levine at Techstew, which comments on the role of the ‘Technology Steward’. This is something I’ve been doing for the past 18 months for the I&DeA’s community of practice platform for local government. It’s good …
The most comprehensive summary I’ve read so far on Microsoft’s foray into social networking via their Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) product. The article is an extract from a forthcoming white paper written by three Microsoft …
Search, information, cetgorisation, tagging, social bookmarking, social media – it’s all here in another excellent video from Mike Wesch.
I attended a very useful session the other day, organised by my colleagues over at the I&DeA ,which brought a number of experienced community of practice facilitators together to their share knowledge and experience with two fairly new CoP facilit…
An excellent article on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. From a Librarian as well! I take back what I said in an earlier posting on this topic!
Interesting things happening at Google, with much speculation that they intend making a more serious and focussed foray into the social media arena. The recent purchase of Jaiku (similar to Twitter, but with more features), and the growing interes…
I came across this post from Andrew Gent today, regarding ‘Management’s’ precoccupation with measuring the value of KM in their organisation, and – for example – using ROI as a measure of the effectivenes of CoPs. I suspect this will resonate with…