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It is about becoming a KM practitioner. Integrated and Aggregated Teaching, Training, Theory, practice, service, and research prospects. Areas of Interest: Activity (capture, index, disseminate, and utilize); Background knowledge (tacit, explicit, and cor
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Capture, store, and share information - Sounds old rhyme, right?
But now this story is getting newer interface (call it interface 2.0). Thanks to Martha for sharing the info about the Living Library!!! I Googled to see true colors of the LL, and found the following:Living library idea as a knowledge managment tool...
Sharing Tacit Knowledge: A Case Study in the Australian Film Industry
Tacit Knowledge“Explicit” or codified knowledge refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, “tacit” knowledge has a personal quality, which makes it hard to formalize and communicate. Tacit kno...
The medieval monastery as metaphor ~~ Designing space for knowledge work
"The new Cass Business School building in the City of London, designed by Bennetts Associates, draws on best practice in workspace design, with a strong emphasis on innovation and experimentation before and during the design process. This included ac...
Return-on-Investment in library practice
Many wonder how to account for a place, such as a library, where "what goes into a library isn’t what comes out," to use Andrew L. Pearson's expression. Here is a book in hand, thanks to Steven Bell, for identifying such an important title: Library...
Knowledge Management of Local / Indigenous Traditions for a Globalized World
The books in the above slide, and following resources may give some sources for reflection on what works and where it works: Seeking Future Alaska Native PhDs!by Ray Barnhardt and Oscar KawagleyCompensating forest-dwelling communities for drug the ...
Looks Can Be Deceptive: Web Analytics & Transaction Log Demystified
A quote from the book helps visualizing the true figures of a Website's visitors:"One could legitimately wonder if the counted visits appearing in Table 7-6 can be attributed to actual people or to robots, spiders, crawlers and the likes. Robots are ...
Which flavour does knowledge have on the web?
In recent debates within the KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki project, the need arose to further refine and find a common understanding of the type of knowledge that is (ideally) managed and processed using (semantic) wikis. One of the proposals evolved ar...
How do you describe this industry, and what you do, to your family and friends?
Posted by Bryant on September 30, 2008 in Infonomics: Question of the WeekView Discussions"I don't know about all of you, but describing this industry to those not in it can be . . . interesting. How do you convey what you do?" continue readingPS: I ...
What I Know for Sure...In Information Management
AIIM > Infonomics Magazine September/October 2008, by Joan Moumbleaux*Extract: "For readers of O, The Oprah Magazine, you will recognize my article title as a riff on the title of her monthly editorials. Oprah’s column ruminates on unchanging tru...
Data Mining Pays Off: 'I'm a PC' made on a Mac
'I'm a PC' made on a Mac Asher Moses, September 24, 2008 - The Sydney Morning Herald"Microsoft's "I'm a PC" advertising campaign was created on a Mac and the celebrity spruikers brought in by the software giant are all professed Apple fans, it has be...
ROI for the knowledge worker is ROI for all, and how KM took an ironic approach
"I perpetually point out the difference to the old and new KM in this blog, but I’ve never thought of it in terms of ROI for the knowledge worker. I have only thought of this in terms of the incentive and motiviation for knowledge sharing. When you...
5 ways to apply management principles at home
By MERCEDES M. CARDONAFor The Associated Press (AP) - Five workplace management techniques that experts say can bring harmony at home:Mission statements are not only for corporations. Patrick Lencioni, author of "The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic ...
Mining for Information -- Chemistry of a Service Provider
"Take one qualified information professional, mix into a new sector and add some limited resources. Hopefully you can get a decent information service from the results..." @ Posted by The Solo Librarian ...
what are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?
Q & A @ LinkedInwhat are pricing models available for Online Adverisements ?Asked by: Md Abubucker Alathick. 5 Answers | February 15, 2007 in Advertising | Closed...
Knowledge Networking in ICT Era
International Conference on "Knowledge Networking in ICT Era"during January 22- 24, 2009 - Conference BrochureCall for PapersSubmit Papers by November 30, 2008 toOrganising Secretary: Mr. P. Panneerselvam, Librarian,B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engin...
Research isn’t a Google search
Says, Kathy Lee Berggren (a professor at Cornell University, teaches oral communication with a “heavy research component") in Research Methods ‘Beyond Google’ Burnt Out Adjunct has interesting reflection on this beyond the domain of Google, tit...
What Really is Benchmarking?
by Rana Sinha, Apr 10, 2008Have you ever wondered what Benchmarking really means? Is it just management hype or jargon used by expensive consultants? Here is a short outline of Benchmarking as used in business organizations. ...exxtract:Different kin...
Who's tracking your health? Paging Dr. Internet
IVOR TOSSELL, The Globe and Mail, May 23, 2008 [posted here with permission of the author]Google, pursuing its strategy of monetizing omniscience, has launched a product that will track every bit of your health information. Everyone together now: Yik...
The difference between cooperation and coordination
After writing our paper on collaboration there were several things we wanted to explore that just wouldn't fit into the original work. We are interested in when it's unhelpful to collaborate, examples of when collaboration has failed, and how collabo...
Push vs. Pull: Trends in Retail Shopping
Something I read in this month’s issue of Fast Company resonated with me:"When employees become sharers of information, instead of sellers of products, customers respond." (Full article: Magic Shop by Alex Frankel) Once a consumer enters the door o...
KAMP is a BarCamp for Knowledge Management
Excellent program management, using the Web 2.0 tools for the event, 24th Nov 2007, Bangalore, India. See detailsWho's blogging?Post-event BloggingHimanshu Shahnawaz Navneet Bhusan Murali ...
Researching with Wikipedia: The Experiences of Experienced Librarians
A quote from 'Many hands make crappy work' New Jack Librarian's blog: "Its largely unsaid, but Wikipedia is thought to improve by means of a strange evolution-like process...1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, ...
Managing Information Overload: News and Views
News Media @ CBCCBC Sparks transparency Eye Weekly, Canada - 18 Feb 2008, Today on the Scroll: CBC Radio tries covering technology in a style that fails to shock and appall its existing listenership while doing double duty in earbuds everywhere... B...
Wikipedia and Wikiscanner in the Newsroom
WikiScanner: List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting ... The much discussed list of anonymous edits on Wikipedia from well known organizations. wikiscanner.virgil.gr/Spin Doctor: Matt Withers, ic Wales, United Kingdom - 10 Feb 2008 [But someb...
Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast -- Resource Shelf Blog Re-visited
Are you reading this the News Headlines?Internet: a wake-up call:'Dawn' stresses the importance of devoting resources to protect and maintain functional Internet service, @ AsiaMediaDo you have an idea of tools that are for free and help you support ...
The ComputerWorld Canada View: Search no more
By: ComputerWorld Canada staff (25 Jan 2008) Out of nowhere, it seems, the news has been full of enterprise search-related stories, including the acquisition of long-time player Fast by Microsoft and the release of user- and human-powered search eng...
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew t...
The Tacit Knowledge of Team Leadership
Posted by Sam Marshall @ Intellectual Capital PunishmentDon't let the title ofTowards an Ecological Theory of Sustainable Knowledge Networks by Jeff Conklin, et al put you off. Its full of insight about project teams (rather than knowledge networks...
