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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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Harvard Unveils Web Tool for Studying Media Trends
Harvard Unveils Web Tool for Studying Media Trends: The Chronicle of Higher Education "There’s a lot of debate over the state of the news media these days, but a team of researchers at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
KM & E-Social Science - Revisited
Amazon.com WidgetsKnowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, application of Knolwedge Management (outside the corporate work culture) in the social and cultural lives of the Netizens is the focus:4th International Conference on e-Social Science philbu'...
Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is A Buddhist Prayer for Lost Information
... According to the Web site guide to Buddhist memorial services, on October 24 of every year, at the Daioh Temple of Rinzai Zen Buddhism in Kyoto, Japan, the head priest conducts a prayer for lost information. Recognizing that "many `living' docume...
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...
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...
Google Sites: What's all the fuss?
Before you read the fussy part, can you find the Way: Where is the link to this new tool @ Google??? News stories don't point to the link, either. Google has added a JotSpot, as well!!!Aha: You need to go an extra mile to find, here is the link: Ne...
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, ...
