event+report category archives

Friday morning, I joined a half dozen other people at the monthly Boston KM Forum breakfast meeting in Waltham. The topic, loosely, was information literacy.

Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing gave an entertaining and informative talk at the Boston Product Management Association meeting this evening.

I attended an excellent discussion (via webinar) of what product managers should be doing in organzations, from the perspective of Marty Cagan of the Silicon Valley Product Group.

Dave Simmons spoke at the March KM Chicago meeting on "Working with KM Building Blocks: Starting and Sustaining a KM Initiative at the local level." But I felt like this was almost a discussion of what any new Knowledge Worker should do when they are new to the job.

Stuart Rosenberg from Deloitte spoke on expertise location at the KM Chicago meeting this evening. His focus was on the iConnect (Tacit Software) roll out in the company for expertise location.

This week I attended an Effective Business Presentations Skills workshop from Mandel Communications, a two-day session that is heavy on the practice of the guidance they provide.

I attended an interesting webinar this afternoon on Design Thinking by Linda Yaven, Professor at California College of the Arts.

The design of the InnovationWell workshop on Next Generation KM for R&D was to talk about that exact topic and what might be involved in creating the technology around supporting R&D activities.

Cynthia Lesky of Threshold Information led an interesting discussion at the KM Chicago meeting this evening. The core question was "Is there a role for external information in knowledge management?"

The Sunday sessions at BlogHer rocked! This was were all "unconference" style via Open Space Technology. As a result of this session, I've set up CoffeeNeeded.com and made even more connections with wonderful BlogHers.

People who have been following my blog for a while have probably seen me reference Brandon Wirtz' thought that Blogs are just a front porch. I like this particular analogy enough that I tossed it out as a topic at the BlogHer unconference.

The second unconference session was initiated by Aliza Sherman as a result of the communities panel from Friday, where there was not enough time to talk about how and why communities die / break-up / fade away.

Does knowing who reads your blog change what you say and how you say it? Do you censor what you say because you don't want your readership (or potential readers) to learn something or to be offende...

My thoughts and comments for the BlogHer sessions on Saturday, July 28th.

Some of my reaction to the first day of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago.