knowledge+management category archives

A couple tools lists turned up recently that might be of interest. One is the I&DeA publication of "KM library: tools, techniques and case studies." And the other is Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell's "The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies."

Vivian Ward has an interesting set of thoughts on knowledge work that have me reflecting on my own work practices.

If you haven't decided on what you are doing at the beginning of May, you might want to consider the upcoming KM conference from APQC in May 1-2 in Chicago. Sadly, I won't be there.

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.

Doug Cornelius tells us about his experiments with "Wikis and Household Knowledge Management."

Here is an entertaining or sobering list of 43 knowledge management definitions - and counting from Ray Sims.

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.

APQC is offering a series on Web 2.0 for KM that will inclue a number of phone calls and virutal site visits to discover how leading companies are using Web 2.0 in pursuit of knowledge management.

David Weinberger has written "What's wrong with being right" in the March 2008 KM World. He highlights are a number of areas where authority is being challenged.

There is a promising-sounding article in the February 2008 Communications of the ACM, Sharing Knowledge, by Peter Marks, Peter Polak, Scott McCoy, and Dennis Galletta.

When we talk of D-I-K, the Ice-Water-Steam analogy may be useful. Thanks to the Act-KM mailing list.

Forgive the rant. But information technology projects do not knowledge management make.

Jonathan Spira (CEO of Basex) writes an entertaining piece in the February 2008 KMWorld, "Knowledge worker: Do you relate?."

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.

Dennis Kennedy has an interesting observation about IT and the specific implementation of IT to serve a business. I see it at my new company. And I see it in KM.