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Librarians as Knowledge Managers
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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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Visualization Technology for Knowledge Mapping
You can use any tool for KM, including GPS, Flicker, oops: Flickr, to communicate your ideas, concepts, plans, routes, etc. See some samples below: See on the same shelf: evocative-knowledge-map...
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 Future of the Future: Rise of the Knowledge Librarian
AIIM > Infonomics Magazine > KM World (02/02/09) Murray, Art and Wheaton, Ken "Both the private and public sectors have been steadily downsizing and closing their physical libraries. All those serials and monographs, outdated by the time they arrived...
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...
Difference Between Overstanding and Understanding?
Do You Know The Difference Between Overstanding and Understanding?Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 21:32 in connect the dots, octaves, perturbations, resonances, rhythm, sounds, spoken words, syllables"Sometimes meanings are conveyed in sound...
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...
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'...
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...
Knowledge production in a profession: Use-inspired knowledge revisited
NB. Here is an interesting reflection and input for the bank of change. For a reflection on change, you need to recognize change, manage change and record change in a manner that can facilitate the change. There is much more on this change in the Ma...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
