As a private sector taxpayer I’m always slightly more sensitive to wastage and inefficiency in the public sector than many of my public sector colleagues. Thus, I thought I’d share this real-life story: I’m currently doing some contract work for a…
Attended an excellent workshop on Wednesday 6th December on “Knowledge Management roles and capabilities”, and 7th December on “People – the hard side of Knowledge Management”. Both events organised by the Knowledge & Innovation Network (KIN), whi…
Just thought I’d mention the excellent presentation “10 Ways to a Killer Blog” by Robert and Maryam Scoble at Thursday’s Online Information Conference in London (30th Nov). Robert is best known for his ‘tech geek’ blog Scobleizer and co-author of …
It was an enjoyable evening at the Online Information Awards on Wednesday (29th) though regretably we didn’t win in our category “Innovation in Knowledge Management” for the local government Communities of Practice initiative now being rolled out …
An interesting item in Joitske Hulsebosch’s blog today about community facilitation. It refers to a research study undertaken by Halbana Tarmizi and Gert-Jan de Vreede on two key questions: 1. What are the most difficult tasks in CoP facilitation?…
This looks like a useful groupware application – a sort of del.iciou.us for inside the corporate firewall.ConnectBeam’s CEO, Puneet Gupta, demonstrates a new kind of knowledge management system that uses Web 2.0 concepts. Click here to watch (07:29)
A number of people have already picked up on Dave Snowdon’s excellent article on the future of KM. Just mentioning it here mainly for my own future reference. There a couple of points that particularly resonate for me. One is the growing recogniti…
It’s getting difficult to keep up with the plethora of social networking tools, but have just stumbled upon StumbleUpon. Looks like it could be nifty little tool for discovering new sites and shared interests.
David Coleman has identified 10 rules for establishing on-line communities, which I quite liked.1. Identify community founders/initiators, and explain the reason for starting the community, ongoing roles, and participation.2. Provide a good reason…
Picked up an interesting commentary from David Weinberger about Folksonomies in response to some criticism from the Taxonomy camp. Fully agree with David’s comments. Based on experience I’ve had in implementing enterprise search solutions, users p…
