KMPro announces Knowledge Management Month
In an email to a wide audience, KMPro announced that they've designated October as international "Knowledge Management Month" with more information to be available at the KMMonth.org website as of October 1st. The full announcement is posted at KMPro.
[KM Month is] a month for ... KM'ers worldwide to participate in activities intended to increase awareness and focus upon knowledge management. Recognizing that Peter Drucker had identified improving the effectiveness of knowledge workers as the "most important management challenge of the 21st century" knowledge management has become critical to organizations world-wide. Yet despite that fact, it seems that many organizations remain unclear of the value of KM or how to implement it.
Update: oops. This was supposed to be published on Sunday to correspond with the initiation of KM Month. c'est la vie.
Not to worry Jack, the announcement was good to go anytime after I'd pressed the send button my end. So I'm happy that you mentioned it.
BTW, we've been receiving an absolutely overwhelming amount of email coming in from everywhere in support of the whole concept, with folks asking about how they can best participate and what they can do to contribute.
The most exciting emails have been received from knowledge workers who feel as though they are out there "all alone" and they are thrilled with the idea that they might be able to interface with other KM'ers without having to figure out how to pay their way to a conference, etc.
It seems clear that this is definitely a concept that has been waiting for its opportunity. I'm really looking forward to seeing just what comes of it!
So -- how will you participate? :-)