Insight on Knowledge Management

Social Networking - as a customer service function

2011-03-05T08:20:00.000-06:00

Social Networking - as a customer service function. Good article reference on InsightKnowledge's home blog for the increasing use of social media and social networking in customer service and CRM business environments.

another nice find.. to do things together.. on the Internet

2011-02-15T10:40:00.000-06:00

another nice find.. to do things together.. on the Internet

Interesting post on Knowledge Management in small and medium-sized businesses

2010-12-16T07:42:00.001-06:00

http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/blog_detail/km_strategy_for_small_medium_sized_businesses/ discusses the definition and application of a KM strategy for small and medium sized business. While I do like the basic approach (change culture, embed sharing, provide platform), IMHO the key is to identify how expertise makes a difference in the sm/med business environnment. The approach needs to be appropriately adapted. A medium sized business with multiple locations can benefit from sharing sessions, knowledge capture processes and the likes; a small business in one location not quite as much. Biggest benefit is really achieved when sml/med businesses work together to build a knowledge network for delivering their goods/services. That level of integrating expertise requires the most effort, but also has the highest potential for making a big impact - once one can answer the question - whats in it for me ? Again, my $0.02.

Apple looking for Knowledge Management expertise

2010-12-15T11:00:00.001-06:00

Interesting that Apple is looking for expertise on KM: http://www.icrunchdata.com/ViewJob.aspx?id=229045&utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

SAP offers ‘Twitter’ like capability for businesses

2010-05-13T12:26:00.001-05:00

An activity based ‘twitter’-like SAAS’ed service hot off the shelve:

https://streamwork.com/

Representatives from GE and Google talking about sustainable innovation in their organizations

2010-05-13T12:20:00.001-05:00

http://fora.tv/2010/04/14/Championing_Innovation_and_Embracing_Disruptive_Ideas#chapter_04

Fwd: KM Bulletin: D Street - Ent. Social Computing at Deloitte - webinar

2010-04-08T23:11:00.001-05:00

This looks like an interesting event - too bad, I won't be able to participate. If anybody does, please share a summary and some of your thoughts about it.

KM Bulletin: D Street - Ent. Social Computing at Deloitte - webinar

Enterprise Social Computing at Deloitte

"Deloitte" is the brand under which approximately 169,000 dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients. Deloitte is a respected, long time leader with a proven track record in helping their customers become more efficient, reliable and successful.

NewsGator is proud to have Deloitte Services as a customer - and we invited a few of their key leaders to share their reasons for pursuing an enterprise social computing solution for their organization. We are very fortunate to have those 3 Deloitte representatives share their business drivers, expectations and results in this upcoming webinar.

We invite you to join J.B. Holston, NewsGator CEO & President, and our special guest speakers from Deloitte: Patricia Romeo, Talent Innovation, Lawrence Blank-Cook, Sr. Knowledge Manager, and Joseph Press, Specialist Leader.

This webinar will offer Deloitte's perspectives on the following topics:

The value of enabling and connecting your employees from the HR perspective
The application of social collaboration and knowledge sharing across lines of business
The voice of a practitioner advising customers on how to best leverage social computing solutions

	Webinar April 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm ET
Speakers: Patricia Romeo, Talent Innovation, Deloitte Lawrence Blank-Cook, Sr. Knowledge Manager, Deloitte Joseph Press, Specialist Leader, Deloitte J.B. Holston, CEO & President, NewsGator

Presenting at KM Argentina next week

2009-10-22T11:23:00.002-05:00

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

For all interested - I will be presenting via webinar at next weeks KM Argentina conference: http://digs.by/bkB

Watch out Windows XP/Vista/7 !

2009-07-24T12:55:00.001-05:00

Image via Wikipedia

I have been a Microsoft Windows user for the longest time. Part out of satisfaction (that it does a good (not perfect) job at what it is doing), necessity (it came with the PC I bought and was not an additional cost) and convenience (it was there, installed, ready to go (at home and work)). BUT, there were the issues of usage – crashes, slowness, incompatibilities, restrictions – which a lot of others may have experienced in different ways.

I have been experimenting with Linux LiveCDs for a while, and seem to have finally found one that fulfills satisfaction, necessity and convenience without any cost – gOS from thinkgos.com. I downloaded the ISO file, burned it on CD, rebooted and within 30minutes was up and running. gOS booted pretty quickly, the install took care of all the resizing and partitioning, and restarted the computer in a very responsive and visually appealling new environment with all the relevant software installed (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.). I did this for the desktop and the laptop and in both cases it went very smooth.

I can highly recommend gOS.

best guesses on blogging and tweetering

2009-04-23T18:04:00.001-05:00

let me throw out some assurancetion and see if anybody agrees or disagrees with them:-blogging is good for exploring and documenting more complex thoughts, experiences and matters-twitter is good for all the random strikes of genius that happen during the day-like in most cases, most tweeds only have limited value-its all about becoming more mobile. could the rise of 3G netbooks bring blogging back to the front.. or will the masses of basic txt enabled phones keep the capabilities at twitter par ?hmm..Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

asae talking about sharepoint implementation

2009-03-23T10:11:00.001-05:00

reggie from asae is talking about his aaproach and lessons learned from implementing sharepoint. he says that they went to the ms envision center and that it really changed the way they worked. build advocates and focus on the work, not the tool.Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Sharepoint conference for non for profit 2009 - josh bernoff talking about GROUNDSWELL

2009-03-23T09:23:00.001-05:00

josh bernoff held a very interesting speech about the use of social media and its use in the industry, here with a special focus on NFPs and NGOs. Key message was that one has to be clear about your objectives. for some areas it is a must. make sure that once you start with social media, it may change the way you are working.Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Blogging, Collaboration and Reputation Management

2009-02-13T09:14:00.001-06:00

Image by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006 via Flickr

What if blogging:

-has a lot to do with collaborating between experts of a certain matter to exchange thoughts and experience and communicate the results to the related professional community ?

-has a lot to do with creating and maintaining one's professional reputation as an expert for a certain matter and results in creating formal and informal professional social networks ?

-would be the means by which information and knowledge would be shared within an organization, e.g. blog management instead of content management ?

-is mixed with Wikis and each blog posting is a wiki page that allows to evolve the topic discussed ?

Food for thought on Friday, the 13th.

KMWorld2008 sharepoint as a collaboration tool

2008-09-24T15:58:00.000-05:00

Michael Sampson put together a compelling case of the more in detail weaknesses of Sharepoint. He concludes that Sharepoint is great for sharing documents, but lots of other capabilities dont go all the way to being more useful, than disappointing. Consolidation of calendaring between outlook, sharepoint and windows mobile being one example. Here is his blog, including comments on this conference

KMWorld2008 James Robertson about collaboration and publishing

2008-09-24T13:03:00.002-05:00

James Robertson from StepTwoDesign makes a good point (with a strong australian accent :-) ) about the use of a groups/department/projects use of a collaboration environment (could be sharepoint) in two different ways:
1. the use as a 'shop' front-end (publishing like) for information to share with others outside the group
2. the use of a 'workshop' back-bone (collaboration like) for information to work on and change within the group.

Interesting approach that is worth further investigation. Metadata is a very critical component of it all.

kmworld08 susan hanley on sharepoint

2008-09-23T18:40:00.000-05:00

Susan is doing an entertaining and interesting job describing important thoughts, lessons learned and non-technical facts around sharepoint and making it succesfull.

Kmworld08 business process and km integration

2008-09-23T17:46:00.000-05:00

It may have been easier for him in hebrew, but yair dembinsky from byonit solutions made a good point: for km to be more than a nice wallpaper, it needs to be embedded in the organizations core processes.. Even if that means to have to find intra political ways to make it happen. Strong message. Right on

kmworld08 leading practices

2008-09-23T16:03:00.000-05:00

The cathlic health initiatives organization gave a great presentation on their approach to get, use and measure best/leading practices. Definitely worth digging deeper.

kmworld08 accenture on km roi

2008-09-23T13:54:00.000-05:00

Interesting. Accenture went to simplify km roi to time savings only. Works for consulting where time is money. They do have a god metrics model that reaches from availability to usage and impact.

kmworld08 opening keynote

2008-09-23T12:11:00.000-05:00

John kao gave a great.. And scary. Speech on the state of innovation here and around the world. I will checkout innovationnationbook.com for more information

kmworld2008 sharepoint and km session

2008-09-22T16:39:00.000-05:00

interesting workshop. very interactive, high level. leson learned - lots of organizations are looking to use sharepoint, all challenged by the same questions.. how do i do it right. how do i implement.. and keep it successful.

kmworld2008 1st day workshop on dynamic

2008-09-22T13:39:00.000-05:00

pretty interesting session about dynamic content creation, mgmt and consumption. metadata is very important. ann rockley from rockley group is doimg a good job.

Twit2Fit

2008-09-03T16:01:00.000-05:00

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown

Interesting use of new communication capabilities for Health and Wellness purposes:

“using Twitter to support and inspire one another to improve our wellness, whether it be through diet, exercise or even spiritual health."

Pretty good idea to use your social connection to help you achieve a specific goal. Motivation and the feeling of not fighting the pounds all by yourselve may just be making the important difference. Definitely different approach from Nintendo's WiiFit :-).

Yuval from MyWorklight talking about secure Web 2.0

2008-08-12T17:55:00.001-05:00

I am currently live-blogging from the KM Chicago event where the CTO of MyWorklight is talking about secure ways of using Web 2.0 i organizations. Very interesting. Check it out: http://kmchicago.blogspot.com.

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

U.S. Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls

2008-07-18T11:16:00.000-05:00

Image via WikipediaU.S. Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls
Blogs, wikis and personal profiles promote information sharing, but some fear they could jeopardize operational security
July 17, 2008 (IDG News Service) The U.S. Air Force is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support its missions despite wariness about security, a civilian technology official of the service
The new techniques, including blogs, wikis and personal profiles, are coming out of an initiative by Air Force Knowledge Now (AFKN), a resource provided on the Department of Defense (DOD) intranet. They're helping service members and civilian employees find the information they need more quickly and are now being shared with members of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines, according to Randy Adkins, director of the Air Force's Center of Excellence for Knowledge Management said last week.

IMHO, this article nicely points out the benefits, as well as the concerns about the use of Web2.0/Social Media capabilities in organizations. There is easy sharing, connecting to other experts and a more collaborative approach to working online together, and there is need for the building of social networking and sharing awareness.

Next step up for Social Networking software ?

2008-07-01T13:27:00.000-05:00

Image via Wikipedia"Content management software vendors eye social networking
Content management software vendors are pondering social networking features and are expected to collaborate or acquire so-called white label networks to make their enterprise apps more social. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9219"

Could this be the start of another round of consolidation, as well as the standardization and commercialization of Social Networking software ? Content Management vendors will likely purchase some of these companies to complete their offering, make them scalable and integrateble - all good things with regards to the utilization of social networking within business environments.

the Knowledge Management solution of the present is not Outlook or..

2008-06-12T21:44:00.000-05:00

Image via Wikipediasolutions like Sharepoint, Lotus Notes or the likes.. its the web-browser.. its the endless list of web service enabled internet sites that allow everybody to blog, share, twitter, text, etc. etc. etc.

My Mozilla is not the same that I downloaded.. expanded dramatically with extensions, greasemonkey scripts and stylish codes, it has become my become one of my main working and information processing interfaces.. Here I manage my friendfeed, my twitter postings, my 4 blogs, moderate discussion groups and keep up to date on the happenings on the Internet.

I will post a list of my currently used extensions shortly.

Knowledge Drain in Africa ?

2008-06-12T21:14:00.000-05:00

Image via WikipediaJust some obvious thoughts.. Africa is huge (11,608,000 sq miles to be exact.. see more here). Its got huge economic problems.. Tell me, why would an educated scientist stay there ? Yes, in the long-run and on a larger scale, the economic and scientific power of Africa can be enormous, but it has yet to find its 'killer application' for the world market (what replication and continious improvement is in Japan, manufacturing power in China, innovation and engineering power in Europe).. what could it be for Africa ?

Africa Facing Brain Drain
The United Nations is increasingly worried about Africa's brain drain and has warned that it could have dire consequences for the continent. The continuous stream of its professionals to Europe and the Americas is affecting Africa's development and prosperity. "In 25 years, Africa will be empty of brains," warns Dr. Lalla Ben Barka of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. The exodus of highly trained individuals from developing African countries to industrialized nations is not a new phenomenon. However, the magnitude of the growing problem demands urgent action as the consequences of brain drain threaten to stunt the overall development of the continent. According to the International Organization for Migration, Africa has already lost one-third of its human capital and is continuing to lose its skilled personnel at an increasing rate. It is reported that there are now more African scientists in the United States than on the whole of the African continent. Africa's share of global scientific output has fallen from 0.5 percent in the mid-1980s to 0.3 percent in the mid-1990s.

What happened to AskMe

2008-06-12T21:09:00.000-05:00

Hmmm.. what happened to AskMe ? Is that a good thing ? What is a Japanese company planning to do with an American Knowledge Management leader ? Hmm Hmm Hmm..

KM NEWS
AskMe Acquired By Tokyo-Based REALCOM
AskMe Corporation has announced that it has been acquired by REALCOM Inc., a leading provider of content and knowledge management services and solutions. Based in Japan, REALCOM is listed and publicly traded on the Tokyo Mothers stock exchange. Under the terms of the agreement, AskMe will remain based in Seattle, Washington, USA, as a subsidiary of REALCOM Inc.. According to REALCOM's founder and chief executive officer Tadashi Tanimoto, "AskMe and REALCOM have had a common heritage. Bringing our companies together is a great opportunity to advance our vision to form a global market leader in Knowledge Management and Enterprise 2.0 technologies." Both companies have begun executing integrating operations, technologies and development teams to ensure a smooth transition and immediate value for customers, partners and investors. AskMe will soon integrate their product roadmap along with increased product investments to build upon the success of the AskMe Enterprise 'Azo' release to innovate further in the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace.

Mobile Knowledge Management

2008-05-30T17:18:00.001-05:00

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. There are more mobiles than humans on this planet.. its the one thing that nearly everybody seems to have.

So ? What a potential to connect, share and tap into eachothers expertise !

Blogging, Twitter, mobile google and facebook have brought anytime conversation to a very cheap, convenient and immediate level. (i am writing this from a mob ile blogging application on my PDA).

What does it mean to you ? If everybody can get their personal network to twit, blog and sms, imagine how eaisily you can solve problems, make better decision and organize an instant party ?!

Mobile collaboration is in its definition phase.. lets play with it and see where it leads us..

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

What is one of the key competitive advantage of a country / large enterprise

2007-09-10T10:10:00.001-05:00

Yes, it is innovation and knowledge. Large enterprises are like small countries, they have similar issues to consider. Generally countries only advance if they create enough strength in certain areas to make them sell more 'stuff' than others. In order to sell more stuff, one has to understand the market needs, innovate it fast, build it very cost efficient and bring it to all corners of the world to sell it quickly (before the competition catches up).

Food for thought:

- where are most innovations created today ?

- who has the most increase in basic science students ?

- who has the ability to create product fast, quick and in masses ?

There MAY BE the risk of outsourcing core competencies that a nation will not be able to learn from - since they are outsourced - which may for the time being be cost efficient, but MAY BE detrimental to the long-term development of a countries capabilities.. again.. just a thought...

Global investment in R & D shifting to India, China

convergence of newspapers to online has started

2006-11-05T08:44:00.000-06:00

USA Today is changing their business model to focus more on the use of news capturing and publishing like websites like digg.com do: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/media/0,72067-0.html

In my observation, this starts a new area of the 'old' publishing industry starting to break down their old structures (pushed by dramatic losses in revenue) to embrass the new internet based technologies.

interesting to watch what and who is coming next. I will keep you posted.

Excellent article on SNA in corporate environments

2006-09-01T10:10:00.000-05:00

Who Knows Whom, And Who Knows What?

http://www.cio.com/archive/061505/km.html?CID=6956

This article describes very well why companies should look into utilizing Social Network Analysis (SNA) for corporate purposes. Using an example from Mars, it highlights the benefits achieved by using such a capability.

Jajah - free VOIP calling to landlines and mobiles

2006-08-04T15:37:00.000-05:00

A relatively new VOIP allows to initiate making phone calls from the internet. The really cool thing: making call to members land- and mobile lines are free. Calls to non-members are really cheap. Give it a try - www.jajah.com. you can also use the productivity links provided by InsightKnowledge Inc.: http://www.insightknowledge.com.

Bill Gates looking for KM expertise

2006-07-28T10:22:00.000-05:00

Bill Gates is looking for a Program Officer for Knowledge Management in the Education area of the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. This is great news, for that it entails that Knowledge Management has made it (once again) on the radar of top executives. If you are a KM professional with applicable experience, don't wait - send your resume for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you are in management in any company around the world, think again about the importance of managing knowledge for the long-term success of your company.
LINK

Great article on the Armed Forces' KM efforts

2006-07-17T09:27:00.000-05:00

Worth a read: http://www.fcw.com/article95271-07-17-06-Print

KM Research by Microsoft

2006-06-29T13:25:00.000-05:00

And you thought Microsoft doesn't do KM ? http://research.microsoft.com/kt/

Good news SME Framework Programme of euro 3.6 billion for Europe adopted

2006-06-28T08:28:00.000-05:00

The European Parliament has today adopted the Framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP), by an almost unanimous vote: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/2727

Information about low-cost KM at BBC

2006-06-27T10:03:00.000-05:00

As surprising as it seems, employees of the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), have been using Internet technologies such as instant messaging (IM) and Wikis, to beef up their knowledge and better collaborate within the company's social culture:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,39370004,00.htm

2006-06-12T14:08:00.000-05:00

Please join the KM Chicago group on Tuesday, June 12th, 5:00 to 7:00 PM at Allstate Insurance in Northbrook, in the South Plaza building, G Auditorium for a
Report from the Front Lines of KM Offshoring, Lisa Beckers, Americas Regional Knowledge Manager for Deloitte Consulting LLP

Lisa Beckers, Americas Regional Knowledge Manager for Deloitte Consulting LLP (a division of Deloitte & Touche) has had extensive experience with offshoring of knowledge management activities at her recent position with Heidrick & Struggles, which she left 6 months ago, and also has experience with it at Deloitte Consulting. She will discuss why her organizations decided to offshore and how well it worked; what activities lend themselves to offshoring and tips for a successful implementation. How flat IS the world of knowledge management? We're sure Lisa's comments will generate a lively audience discussion about the pros and cons of offshoring KM activities.

Speaker:
Lisa Beckers is responsible for understanding the priorities and strategy of Deloitte Consulting Americas regional leadership and translating that into the global KM strategy, along with the other regional KM managers. Her current focus is to develop performance measures for KM firmwide for Deloitte Consulting, including reward and recognition programs. Prior to Deloitte Consulting, Lisa spent 10 years at Heidrick & Struggles International, a global executive recruitment company, where she held a number of roles with the company including Global Practices Information Manager and Business Process Reengineering Manager. All her roles included knowledge management – from creating a KM function, to developing offshore activities as well as taxonomy redesign. Lisa held several research-focused roles before that in engineering and law. She holds a graduate degree in Library & Information Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an undergraduate degree in English from University of California, Berkeley.

Lisa will speak at the downtown location of KM Chicago (Factiva offices). For those connecting from afar:

Audio: 877-393-3363, 19494780 – Webinar: http://www.placeware.com/cc/factiva/join?id=alee&role=attend.

All are welcome. Please feel free to forward this note to anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

Questions? see: http://www.kmchicago.blogspot.com for more details.

Please note that the KM Chicago meetings are regularly scheduled for the second Tuesday each month.

Looking forward to seeing you there

Knowledge Management Events and Job Postings on InsightKnowledge.com

2006-05-19T11:18:00.000-05:00

FYI, Knowledge Management Events and Job Postings are continiously posted on InsightKnowledge.com

Stan Garfields Weekly KM Blog - this week on knowledge sharing

2006-05-19T10:20:00.000-05:00

http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7624

The navy is im'ing

2006-05-15T11:10:00.000-05:00

The NAVY is getting with the times - IM as part of their Knowledge Management structure to foster communication amoung soldiers:
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=23602

Teenagers Inspire Knowledge Management Process

2006-05-15T11:08:00.000-05:00

Interesting article about how the european US military recognizes that the way younger generations handle and manage information and knowledge, can actually be more productive: http://www.defenselink.mil/transformation/articles/2006-05/ta051206a.html

the military seems to be doing something right about km

2006-05-10T16:24:00.000-05:00

http://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/articles/2006/04/28/news/news2.txt

KM Chicago event - 5/9/6 - 'Academic Deathmatch' :-)

2006-05-05T14:01:00.000-05:00

The next meeting of KM Chicago, May 9th, will feature a panel of faculty from several area schools which teach knowledge management. Panelists will describe their approach to knowledge management and we will open the floor for discussion of these programs and KM education and certification in general. Please come and enjoy the discussion.

As always, we meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 5-7 pm in two locations: Allstate in Northbrook and Factiva in the Loop. Please check http://kmchicago.blogspot.com for more information.

Panel participants:
Kanti Srikantaiah, Director, Center for Knowledge Management
Domican University

Kimberly Scott, Director, Center for Learning and Organizational Change
Jack Vinson, Adjunct Professor, Center for Learning and Organizational Change
Northwestern University

Alan Burns, Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems
DePaul University

KM Chicago Presentation on 5/9/6

2006-05-04T09:49:00.000-05:00

The next meeting of KM Chicago, May 9th, will feature a panel of faculty from several area schools which teach knowledge management. Panelists will describe their approach to knowledge management and we will open the floor for discussion of these programs and KM education and certification in general. Please come and enjoy the discussion.

As always, we meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 5-7 pm in two locations: Allstate in Northbrook and Factiva in the Loop. Please check the sidebar at http://kmchicago.blogspot.com/ for directions.

Panel participants:
Kanti Srikantaiah, Director, Center for KM, Domican University
http://www.dom.edu/gslis/faculty/faculty.asp?emp_id=172&schnav_id=2053&tschn

Kimberly Scott, Director, Center for Learning and Organizational Change
Jack Vinson, Adjunct Professor, Center for Learning and Organizational Change, Northwestern University
http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/loc/info/overview/description/

Alan Burns, Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University
https://www.cs.depaul.edu/people/facultyInfo.asp?id=186
av_id=1012

The Truth about Beer ! (a must read)

2006-05-03T09:48:00.000-05:00

What exactly is in your beer?
A report by Will Smale - BBC News business reporter
Fancy a refreshing pint of betaglucanase? Or maybe a thirst-quenching glass of propylene glycol alginate?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4942262.stm

Sharing Insight: Tip of the day - Protopage & InsightKnowledge PKM

2006-05-01T14:06:00.000-05:00

Todays tips is about the combined usage of two different tools to increase your personal knowledge management capabilities. Take a look at this. It shows the usage of the Protopage tool in combination with InsightKnowledge Inc.'s SharingInsight personal knowledge management portal. You can give it a try yourself by signing up for a free account with Protopage and a free account with InsightKnowledge and posting the above link in the UserMenu section (marked with a '+' at the top left). Please feel free to discuss your experiences in the related forum on InsightKnowledge.

Just released: CNNMoney - the best jobs in america

2006-04-12T12:55:00.000-05:00

Check it out - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html

KM Chicago Event

2006-04-10T11:23:00.000-05:00

KM Chicago has a presentation coming up about Personal Knowledge Management.

Check out more information at http://kmchicago.blogspot.com.

Stefan Lafloer is an organizational intelligence and knowledge management senior project manager and management consultant. As the CKO of InsightKnowledge Inc., he is focusing on strategic business consulting and project management in the knowledge management (KM) and organizational intelligence (OI) area. He also is guest speaker for KM at DePaul University in Chicago, and VP of KMChicago, as well as moderator for multiple large scale KM focused discussion groups with thousands of participants on Orkut and Yahoo.

In 14 years of business experience he has build a successful track record of managing the creation of e-business solutions, identifying and delivering complex process improvements and optimizing information flows in global companies. He has strong expertise in managing projects, designing information systems and using content- , document- and knowledge management technologies, as well as organizational intelligence concepts to create a competitive advantage.

To drive the development of KM and OI, Stefan spends a lot of time and effort on research around topics of OI and KM. Tonight Stefan is presenting his findings on - Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)-.

His presentation will include an overview of what PKM is, a research and market analysis on PKM, and a demo of several open source systems that can be used for personal knowledge management. The focus of this session will be to provide the participants with hands-on, practical knowledge (information, links, tools) on how to apply PKM to their own specific knowledge needs.

For further information about the speaker, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanlafloer and http://www.insightknowledge.com

new events posted on InsightKnowledge event calendar

2006-04-10T10:43:00.000-05:00

Raindance Communications is holding webinars that we find interesting and worth sharing:
-Positive Networking on April 12th
-Designing and delivering persuasive webinars on April 18th.

Please check out the www.insightknowledge.com event calendar for more information

Knowledge Workers, Collaboreation and personalization will be critical to a companies success in the future

2006-03-31T08:32:00.000-06:00

Now here is an interesting article. A study of over 1000 CxO's projects that Knowledge Workers, Collaboreation and personalization will be critical to a companies success in the future.

So how is this prediction different from other predictions that had said that KM will change everything ? And then it had not happened ?

Looking around market activities, company strategies, development of professions, job market and other developments - it all seems to steer towards a global economy that has to be flexible and adaptive. Products will need to be customizable to a customers specific needs. Inventing, creating, marketing and support will need to be functions provided by someone specialized in this area. All of this can only be achieved if we break down the paradigm of having to be in the same phyical location in order to work together effectively. Technoloy (wireless, video communication, etc.) is developing rapidely towards allowing us to communication and collaborate anywhere with anybody with an increasing set of functionality. With this in mind, the article makes sense.

I would be interested to hear about your point of view.

Original source: http://finanzen.net/news/news_detail.asp?NewsNr=385034

Job trends for Knowledge Management

2006-03-17T12:21:00.000-06:00

If you have not checked out http://www.indeed.com, you should do so. It is a google for jobs, searching through the internet for openings. One interesting feature is that you can create a graph for how often a keyword appears in job postings, giving you some idea about how sought for a certain job may be. Look at the trend analysis for Knowledge Management: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22knowledge+management%22.

Is Talent Management part of a KM concept

2006-03-15T10:40:00.000-06:00

This article referes to Talent Management as similar to Knowledge Management:

Talent Management as a Discipline
WebCPA - New York,NY,USA
... Just as knowledge management came to the forefront a number of years ago and companies and some of the larger accounting firms created executive level ...

This brings up the question - what falls within KM and what doesnt ? Can one consider the management of talent and competency as a way of managing a companies knowledge and intelligence. I would say yes. Please feel free to discuss this at http://www.insightknowledge.com

Another case of Microsoft and Knowledge Management

2006-03-15T10:38:00.000-06:00

Microsoft, Government Partnerships Solve Challenges for Citizens ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... their connected government strategy, Microsoft showcased the Illinois Department of Central Management Services' (CMS') Knowledge Management solution as an ...

New communication tool for knowledge exchange: http://gabbly.com

2006-03-13T12:22:00.000-06:00

Just popped up on the Internet (launched 3 days ago): gabbly.com. Gabbly.com is a chat tool that is very easy to use. Simply put http://gabbly.com in front of the website you want to access and this website will open with gabbly as a website-specific chat (example: http://gabbly.com/http://www.insightknowledge.com. This is a great tool for customer support, meeting friends and exchanging experiences with others about a certain website. BAD websites watch out !!!

Stan Garfield (KM at HP) presents at KMChicago

2006-03-06T15:55:00.000-06:00

HP Services Consulting & Integration KM Program (Mar 14th)

The March 14th KM Chicago meeting will play host to Stan Garfield of Hewlett-Packard's Worldwide Consulting & Integration Knowledge Management organization. He will talk about the KM program in the consulting organization.

The meeting will be held from 5-7 pm at both Factiva in the Loop and at Allstate in Northbrook. Stan will be joining us via webinar from Detroit. See location and connection details in the right navigation bar.

Bio: Stan Garfield is responsible for Worldwide Consulting & Integration Knowledge Management for Hewlett-Packard. He joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983 and launched Digital's first knowledge management program in 1996. Stan helped develop the corporate KM strategy for Compaq. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

The HP Services Consulting & Integration KM Program: The mission of the HP Services Consulting & Integration KM Program is to increase the reuse of intellectual capital to:

Increase win rate
Drive down sales and delivery costs
Increase engagement quality
This presentation will explain the details of the HP Knowledge Management Program, including people, process, and technology components. Detailed examples of the following tools will provided

Knowledge Advisors
Project Team Collaboration
Project Profile Repository
Communities of Practice
Knowledge Briefs
Specialized Repositories
HP and Digital Equipment Corp. each started a KM program for their consulting businesses in 1996. Through the subsequent years, the organizations changed frequently, culminating in the merger of Compaq and HP in 2002.
The newly-merged consulting & integration business had to deal with different cultures, KM systems, and personnel. The KM program has continued to experience significant change, including system migrations, team membership, and leadership.
Our challenge has been to move from an emphasis on technology to an approach that balances people, process, and technology. We are also managing a demanding list of projects with a very small team.

For information on how to attend this meeting, please visit the KMChicago weblog.

GeekCorps for KM

2006-03-02T10:34:00.000-06:00

The non-for-profit GEEKCORPS (like peacecorps for computers) is helping with technical development work including in Africa. They currently have a need for Knowledge Management expertise. Please check it out at:
http://www.geekcorps.org/default.asp

Think you know everything about Social Networking - check this out

2006-02-21T11:27:00.000-06:00

The Daily Show on Comedy Central does a report on Social Networking websites - FUNNY !
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4698898666405139932

South Koreas buying into Knowledge Management

2006-02-20T10:42:00.000-06:00

Asian companies and governments (!), here specially South Korea, are buying into and building out Knowledge Management solutions. The Korea Herald (subscription required) just posted an article that "a knowledge management system was also introduced to create and share knowledge between members of the Ministries and Agencies..". Homeland Security, please listen. Gurteen found some interesting cross-relationship (click here)

Whats hot on the Internet ? -> TechnoCrati Tags

2006-02-14T12:16:00.000-06:00

The Internet is the communication tool of the present and future. To find out what is going on in the world in as close to real time as possible - this is the media. Checkout Technocrati Tags

Social Networking everywhere - even on the plane

2006-02-14T12:07:00.000-06:00

Well, I have to admit - it is an idea overdue - social networking on the plane. Myself being from Europe and traveling there at least once a year, always have to look forward to around 9 hours of sitting, watching, eating, more watching and more sitting. With a little luck there is somebody sitting next to you, you can talk to, but with a little less luck that person sits 5 rows away.

Now with social networking on the plane, I would be able to connect to people anywhere on the plane I want to connect to. Hmm, sounds good. I'll give it a try and report on it.

To check it out yourself: http://www.airtroductions.com/Anonymous/Login.aspx

Accenture presents: Knowledge Management in the Asia-Pacific region

2006-02-13T15:32:00.000-06:00

Please join the KM Chicago group on Tuesday, February 14th, 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the Allstate location in Northbrook, IL - South Plaza, G Auditorium for a presentation by

Tanya Brincat and Myrna Binamira, Accenture

Knowledge Management in the Asia-Pacific region

Scarcely a day goes by when we do not hear about the current and future economic impact of China and various other countries from the Asia Pacific region. Accenture has had a knowledge management presence in Asia since the mid 1990s. Two key people from their respective operating groups will discuss the evolving role of knowledge management at Accenture and their roles in developing and delivering knowledge services in Asia and around the world. Both of these women have been associated with knowledge management at Accenture for more than a decade. They have served their operating groups very ably during that time and have made many contributions to the global knowledge management efforts at Accenture. They and their respective teams have contributed to millions of dollars in consulting revenues over the past few years. Living and working in Asia they have a unique perspective on the cultural, language and technology barriers encountered by consultants in the region. Come get an Asia Pacific view of the successes, challenges, and evolving approaches that are faced by a global organization trying to deliver knowledge management services.

Speakers
Tanya Brincat (Financial Services Knowledge Management, Accenture)
Tanya Brincat has been involved in Knowledge Management since its inception at Accenture in 1992. She was seconded to Accenture's WHQ in Chicago in October 1992 where she spent 4 years working on the design, development and rollout of the core suite of databases to be made available on Accenture?s knowledge management system, the Knowledge XchangeTM.
Since 1996 Tanya has served as a Knowledge Manager for the Financial Services Operating Group (Financial Services is one of the largest industry groups in Accenture with 12,000+ practice personnel globally; $3.4bn revenues in FY2005). After spending one year with the Financial Services Knowledge Management team in New York, Tanya returned to her native Australia where she currently serves as the Financial Services Knowledge Management lead for Asia Pacific (responsible for the provision of knowledge equipping and knowledge harvesting services to the FS practice in Asia Pacific) and the Global Head of Banking Knowledge Management (responsible for managing all Banking related knowledge capital on Accenture?s Knowledge XchangeTM and for developing all internal Banking communications).
Prior to her Knowledge Management assignment at Accenture Tanya spent 4 years as a Management Consultant in Accenture's Change Management practice, where she specialized in instructional design. Tanya holds a Bachelor of Behavioral Science from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).

Myrna A. Binamira (Director, Government Knowledge Network, Accenture)
Myrna A. Binamira joined Accenture in 1995. Prior to that she was working for the Philippine Government and served for almost 18 years, the last 7 of which was as the CIO for the Department of Agriculture. As the CIO, she was in charge of the Department's IT and IS Program nationwide, and headed the Department's Computer Center. After that Government stint, she joined a private systems integrator company where she found herself selling Microsoft and Lotus Notes software. Sales turned out to be not her cup of tea so after a year of doing that, she went back to job searching and found this ad for Andersen Consulting.
They were looking for a Director for their Government Knowledge Center. Needless to say, she got the job and had to start the organization from scratch. That was the most challenging job yet ever she had to face, but definitely also the most rewarding. Not very many people can actually single-handedly choose the people who will work for them. She has since then managed the KM Program of the Government Operating Group of Accenture and continues to do it with the same passion as when she started.

Tanya Brincat and Myrna Binamira will join us via webinar.

For those connecting from afar:
Audio: 877-393-3363, 19494780 ? Webinar: http://www.placeware.com/cc/factiva/join?id=alee&role=attend.

All are welcome. Please feel free to forward this note to anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

See http://www.kmchicago.blogspot.com for more details.

Please note that the KM Chicago meetings are regularly scheduled for the second Tuesday each month.
Looking forward to seeing you there,

Productivity tool experience - Klipfarm

2006-02-07T10:55:00.000-06:00

To all of you that like to get their news continously, try out http://www.klipfarm.com.

This neat little tool for winXP installs quick and without problems. It is not too big, looks nice and does a great job with providing the maximum amount of information on the smallest space possible.

Each channel (klip) that is being setup (hundreds to choose from) minimize to the size you define (icon is my favorite) and pop open to show a headline once you hover over it with the mouse.

Klipfarm allows you to setup alarms for certain keywords that will make a small notification window popup at the bottom right.

Please feel free to discuss your opinion and experiences with Klipfarm and/or other productivity tools at the productivity tools forum on InsightKnowledge.com

Open Source KM Technologies: OpenSharePoint

2006-01-27T11:15:00.000-06:00

For those of you looking for a good open source technology to use to improve web-based collaboration, check this piece of software out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensharepoint/. It is an open source clone of Microsoft's Sharepoint and visually uses the same concept. It is easy to use (checkout the demo).

For those who look for more, please checkout TIKIWIKI. InsightKnowledge Inc.'s website is build with it and provides a variety of features all targeted to improve personal knowledge managing efficiency. Feel free to contact me for a demo. I will provide a free web presentation soon.

Free Knowledge: Stanford University delivers courses free of charge via ITunes

2006-01-26T09:58:00.000-06:00

Stanford University has started to provided recordings of select lectures, speeches, interviews and events available on through iTunes for free: http://itunes.stanford.edu

Providing knowledge for free is generally a good thing and a lot of people have the possibility to benefit from it. The effeciency of this effort could be much better, if there would be communities that could help assimilate this knowledge and serve as the 'virtual classroom'.

For more 'Free Knowledge' links and/or if you want to start a virtual classroom or community around any of the stanford offerings, please visit http://www.insightknowledge.com/

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye

2006-01-17T08:44:00.000-06:00

A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions.

So, you better update your website with some catchy design if you want people to stick around - is that what it means ? Shall we focus less on content ? Again, my believe is that a middle-way is the best way to go. No compromise on the quality of content, but improving the end-user interface experience is an increasingly important component of information technologies nowadays.

What does that mean ? I think it means that people are fed up with un-intuitive, complex, hard-to-use interfaces. It means that people work harder and longer and do not want to deal anymore with anything that makes it more difficult. My two cents.

Read more at http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060109/full/060109-13.html

Cool Tool: ORB Networks

2005-12-20T12:50:00.000-06:00

If you have your own server running and you are into sharing your knowledge and media with others - you've got to check out http://www.orb.com. The company provides a streaming server system (for free) that allows you to install and run your own media distribution from your own machine. While this alone may not be unique, ORB's features include picture, audio and video sharing (only of your own media !) and allows you to access your content from pocket pc (wireless or GPRS) and other devices besides a PC - basically expanding your accessible knowledge to any kind of media beyond text. The combination of TikiWiki and ORB is very powerful. For any advice, questions or services, please do not hesitate to contact me.

FlickrGraph - Social Network Analysis for users of Flickr

2005-12-13T12:58:00.000-06:00

Social Network Analysis is going to be the big thing of tomorrow. Look at things happening on the internet - now Flickr has a social network browser (http://www.marumushi.com/apps/flickrgraph/index.cfm). It shows you the relationships of friends of Flickr users. Very cool ! Managing our social knowledge of tomorrow.

KM Jobs on the rise

2005-12-08T09:05:00.000-06:00

As a KM professional, I am harvesting information on a daily basis, filter it and review whats left for impact on things I know about. This includes the job market around Knowledge Management. Following the postings, I see more and more KM positions being offered. There are still quite a few out there that mis-use the term Knowledge Management, but in general it looks like the industry is slowly getting to the point where the recognition sets in (in the mainstream) that the only way to do more (increase performance, competitiveness or other values) with less (money, resources, time), is to utilize the knowledge that the organization contains within their employees better (->Organizational Intelligence on Wikipedia).

Self-promotion again ! -> InsightKnowledge provides a discussion forum with postings of jobs in the KM area. Check them out.

What your brain can do to you

2005-12-07T11:19:00.000-06:00

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Off-topic: Time to change your investment strategy

2005-12-07T09:33:00.000-06:00

Yahoo News reports a major trend that may force you to change your investment strategy soon. More companies are turning away from retirement contributions. HMM... time to rethink how I will be able to live when I get older. How do I put money away now so that I will be living safely later ? Real Estate ? - interesting, but has its own challenges; Stock ? - only good if you really invest a lot of time; Casino ? - yeah, right. How about making your knowledge pay for you ? Knowledge Subscriptions - checkout more details at http://www.insightknowledge.com.
Yahoo News Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051207/bs_usatoday/evenhealthyfirmsfreezeorcutloosetraditionalpensions

HOT: Microsoft Research released: SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder

2005-12-06T15:48:00.000-06:00

Microsoft Research, the guys who invent some cool stuff (like Microsoft Portrait), just released SNARF, a tool to utilized Outlook to check your contacts and emails for your social network and its relationship. I'll give it a try and report experiences here - http://research.microsoft.com/community/snarf/

McKinsey recommends that new organizational structures will set the knowledge workers free

2005-12-06T12:27:00.000-06:00

McKinsey has published an article (for which you have to register for free to view it), that talks about the need for companies to break away from traditional organizational structures to allow productive professionals / knowledge workers to improve their company's competitiveness.

The future of organizational performance - and that is where fact stops and my believe begins - is in the enablement of team and networks. Enable project teams to efficiently communicate and collaborate - and they will succeed; enable networks to form and adapt and structure themselves to the purpose and goal given - and they will be ideally prepared to succeed.

Power teams, organizational networking, business network analysis - keywords for things that are waiting to happen.

My thoughts on CORANTE Blog - US Engineers concerned about competitiveness

2005-12-06T12:18:00.000-06:00

Corante is a weblog loaded with thoughts of experts of their fields. A posting about the reasons for US engineers getting concerned about the US being able to keep competitive lead me to share my thoughts - here and there.

How Google supports its Knowledge Workers

2005-12-06T11:57:00.000-06:00

Why is Google so successfull ? Could it be that their business model breaks away with the 'how you are supposed to do it' and enables 'how it is supposed to be' ? How about Google valueing their Knowledge Workers and setting them free to strive for bigger and better things. Hmm, hasn't Google become bigger and better lately ? Could it be related to understanding the value of organizational intelligence for the success of the business ??? Read what Google's CEO has to say about it

ConceptWikis - the next step from blogging to wikis to conceptwikis

2005-12-05T10:04:00.001-06:00

There is a development happening in the way everybody can describe his/her knowledge.

Blogs are very popular, because they allow everybody to be a publisher of their thoughts and opinions with text and video and audio and reach a worldwide audience. What it does not do, is to provide a efficient capture mechanism for knowledge to be re-used, shared and worked with.

Wikis are becoming very quickly very popular. They provide the capability of blogging, but also allow for knowledge to be very easily capture as single pages, automatically linking to eachother with keywords. One can capture thoughts similar to how one is thinking, link pages they way one remembers things, and can discover someones thoughts they way the person thought about it and captured it. What wikis do not do, is to capture the relationship between the linked pieces of information. The relationship itself is an important part of the information between two knowledge entities, like in 'ThisInformation is part of TheOtherInformation'.

ConceptWikis are the next step. Based on the ease of use of wikis, it provides the capability to capture the relationship between to pieces of wiki information, more closely representing how knowledge is formed and linked to eachother.

If you are interested in this topic and wish to learn more about it, play with it or use it for your business, please contact Stefan Lafloer at InsightKnowledge Inc.

Just a thought .. could KM help here

2005-12-03T10:56:00.000-06:00

A double warning by Greenspan - Read .. hmm, what if Knowledge Management would become mainstream and knowledge could be transferred and re-used to dramatically increase efficiency of organizational competencies to support the burden put on the shoulders of the younger generations ?

KM World 2005 presentations are available online

2005-12-02T12:04:00.000-06:00

For all the KM Practioners and those who want to become one, check out the KM World 2005 presentations at
http://www.kmworld.com/kmw05/presentations/. And while you are at it, check out http://www.insightknowledge.com too :-).

InsightKnowledge Inc.'s Contributions to WikiPedia

2005-11-21T15:47:00.000-06:00

My contributions to WikiPedia:
-adding my $.02 to Knowledge Management
-working the page: Organizational Intelligence
-working the page: Organizational Competencies
Please feel free to check them out

MMORGs as business tools ?

2005-11-21T13:43:00.000-06:00

Just read an article on a presentation at the latest KMWorld in San Jose in November 05 about the link between a game (world of warwind, i think).

This article discusses how a MMORG (massive multiplayer online roleplaying game) could be usable in a business environment. It discusses the behaviours people show in those games and how they apply/are similar to real world behaviour.

I think that a MMORG that reflects a business environment would be interesting. It could serve the purpose of virtual meetings (documents/presentations could be shown online, in vitual meeting rooms, people represented by avatars, the document actually visible), for getting to know people (virtual watercooler, virtual dating, etc.), or even virtual training sessions.

I think the problems with this environment for business is that people perceive it as play without consequences. If a MMORG would be applied to real world problems, there would be real consequences.

Watch out - Google Base is coming

2005-11-21T13:27:00.000-06:00

Check it out - Google started its Base service. A search engine that searches through any kind of listing that anybody uploads. Blogs are talking about its potential to impact auction websites (like ebay) or even payment services (like paypal, if google offers a payment service (rumor: checkout google earths payment interface)):
http://base.google.com

Job postings for KM on InsightKnowledge Inc.

2005-11-21T08:59:00.000-06:00

BEWARE - this is a case of shameless self-promotion ! If you don't like it do NOT read on.

InsightKnowledge Inc. to the best of its capabilities is linking to KM job posting whereever it can find them. If you are looking for one place to look for Knowledge Management job postings/offerings, this may be it.

You do have to register for free, but that's it for the basic personal Knowledge Management functionality. If you wish to expand into group knowledge networks, its only $5/month a network for a knowledge subscription.

That's it - now I am done (for a while) :-).

Not new but cool: Peer News Publishing

2005-11-16T11:12:00.000-06:00

I would like to draw your attention to something that I think has a great potential to make an impact on the collection, delivery and consumption of news. I am talking about the likes of shoutwire.com and digg.com, websites that allow everybody to submit news stories, or as a matter of fact anything, but that has a process build in, by which peers vote on which article/news will get to the front page.

Not controlled by the media, I believe this has the potential to bring the news back to the people. People know first what is going on, there would not be any filtering, its a democratic process by which something gets published.

Worth keeping an eye on and setting up an RSS feed !

2005-11-15T22:27:00.000-06:00

Today I ran into an article in the november issue of Baseline (here). He posted an interesting calculation for determining the value of Knowledge for a company. While I do not completely agree, it is definitely important to discuss and think about. Please find his bio here, and his blog here. Worth checking out.

Cool: Vote on future innovations

2005-11-15T09:23:00.000-06:00

Microsoft is sponsoring an event where one can vote on what you want to see innovated in the future. Pretty cool:
http://www.startsomethingpc.com/

Report: Federal spending on info sharing (KM) to rise

2005-11-11T10:10:00.000-06:00

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Federal spending on information-sharing and communication technology will rise by a third over the next five years, government market analysts INPUT said.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051109-065845-5387r

The article points out the Army's KM efforts as a good example. Can federal information sharing finally get its act together ? That will not depend on the technology spendings, but on the change of culture ! Washington, watch out not to waste money here. Cultural change is the toughest part of a successful KM solution.

Report on what companies will invest in related to KM tools

2005-11-11T10:04:00.000-06:00

AMR did some research and put together a report about what companies will invest in (next 12 months) in terms of KM tools. Interesting, but not surprising.

http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=18908

Brand whooping new - Web-based Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging Tool: MEEBO

2005-11-09T13:14:00.000-06:00

Meebo (http://www2.meebo.com) allows you to log into MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Gtalk using a web-based interface. You will not have all the features available that a full client provides, but for use with installing any software and experiencing any firewall issues - Meebo is the current tool of choice to stay connected !

KM Standards are for sale

2005-11-08T19:51:00.000-06:00

SAIS Global is selling KM standards developed in Australia on their website for in between $85 and $126 (dont know if australian or US dollars):
http://www.standards.com.au/catalogue/script/Details.asp?DocN=AS0733769306AT

Will this be a wake-up call for the profession of KM where everyone is their own standard ? Will this bring the OZ KM movement to the frontline of the profession ?

Doubtfully. ANSI or IEEE are well known standardization committees and until the australian KM standards pass that hurdle, it may only have limited success.

Doubtlessly, I think that it shows the need of the profession and the industry for standards, for something common that people can learn, understand and apply without taking $$$thousands of dollars of proprietary training and certification courses. PUBLIC standards will allow the market to grow faster, learn faster and build stronger and consistent offerings than what currently is available.

If you feel like discussion this issue, please leave a note or visit http://www.insightknowledge.com and register for free. Once approved you will be able to access the KM forums.

Knowledge Management on Wikipedia

2005-11-08T10:33:00.000-06:00

InsightKnowledge Inc. is now supporting the editing of the topic 'Knowledge Management' on Wikipedia, so that visitors can rely on the quality of the information provided.

2005-06-23T12:55:00.000-05:00

Where are the big shots in KM ?

Interesting discussion the current state of the KM profession going on at Denham Grey's Weblog.

Check it out at:
http://denham.typepad.com/km/2005/06/where_are_kms_b.html?

Where have all the KM experts gone ? (played to the tunes of a sixties song..

2005-06-22T13:31:00.000-05:00

Upcoming event: Personal Knowledge Management with TikiWiki

InsightKnowledge will be announcing an interesting event shortly - utilizing the open source CMS Tikiwiki as a Personal Knowledge Management tool.

This free offering will allow you to learn the basics of how to use Tikiwiki as an efficient tool to capture, manage and share knowledge easily.

Further details will be announce shortly. Watch here for updates, or goto http://www.insightknowledge.com and check the calendar for events.

Please feel free to discuss the topic of 'Personal Knowledge Management' (PKM) at http://www.insightknowledge.com's PKM forum.

2005-06-17T16:01:00.000-05:00

Knowledge Tidbit: Windows Indexing Service

For those of you that use the MS Indexing Service as a search engine on your home computer, know this:
-the service can query connected network computers, if the UNC option in the search paths are pointeding to them (\\computername), instantly creating a network search service.
-by using a '!' in front of a query in your regular startbutton/search function it will utilize the indexing service pre-indexed database - causing the searches to be really quick.
-you could also just download goodle's desktop search and its plugins to do the same. while this is great, it also creates large index files (for those who have storage issues).

If you have any questions about knowledge retrievel, please contact me at http://www.insightknowledge.com via LIVEHELP

2005-06-17T10:44:00.000-05:00

Personal Knowledge Management - the use of webfolders

Useful tidbit of information: Webfolders

I hardly know anybody who is using webfolders on their desktops. Here is some information that may convince people to give it a try.

Webfolders are really useful. Within a Windows environment (starting at windows 2000), one can setup a webfolder by adding a new network place (I won't explain the details here, but please visit http://ww.insightknowledge.com, passcode: insightfor more information).

Once setup, a webfolder behaves like a regular folder. One can browse, work with files, and the likes.

BUT really helpful is a webfolder when working with Microsoft Office or OpenOffice. Both programs allow to open and save documents into such a webfolder. This means one can create, share and edit documents in place over the internet. It will ask for login/password if security is applied to the folder. Using the building versioning of the office suites, this is great for sharing documents.

Now it gets a little bit more techincal - for those who are interested to host their own webfolders (like your home computer).

Needed on the (server) receiving side is a webdav compliant webserver. Zope is an easy and powerful way of getting this setup. Apache allows this fucntion too, but needs more configuration work. Please feel free to contact me for consult you on the setup and use of a zope server.

A side effect of this setup is that everything is http based and does not create any problems with a firewall.

Don't hesitate to contact me for questions: http://www.insightknowledge.com and use LIVEHELP.

2005-06-01T17:04:00.000-05:00

KM Training and Certification Review Forum

InsightKnowlege Inc. is making a forum available to gather and discuss the different offerings of Knowledge Management trainings and certifications.

Please visit
InsightKnowledge Inc.
forums to review or participate

Passcode for registration: insight

2005-06-01T15:25:00.000-05:00

Fewer students major in computer - USA TODAY 5/23/5

http://km.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=129587&t=4&a=KM

Why am I mentioning this article you ask ?

Knowledge Management really utilizes computers to make the masses of data, information and potential for knowledge manageable.

If you don't believe this - ask yourself: Who does research without GOOGLE nowadays ?

Computers are like weapons and nuclear science. They can be used for good and bad. With the purpose of automation, safety and cost-cutting measures, they take on more and more functionality.

Knowing that fewer and fewer people will know how to 'tame the beast', should get us thinking.

Some will say, (specifically potential students): "but the market crashed and the future is not certain".

It will be important to understand that while these uncertainies do exist, flexibility in the area of computers is essential. Computer systems, architecturs, programs and programming languages are changing faster and faster.

There may not be a straightforward answer, but a criteria for a successful future will need to include that the general understanding of computers, their impact on everybodies daily life and the responsibility of using and not misusing them, will need to increase dramatically.

If you would like to discuss this topic further, please visit http://www.insightknowledge and the 'Learning from Experience' forum.

Passcode for registration: insight

2005-06-01T13:07:00.000-05:00

America's Eroding Knowledge Edge - Posting on Yahoo News

REFERRED POSTING

Congratulations Mike Ruettgers !

I wholeheartedly agree with your article on the erosion of knowledge in America.

If one takes an objective look at the state of education across the states..

If one looks at the statistics of the skill levels of the nations youth..

one must start thinking: We may be overrun by other countries, who invest more in managing their knowledge and experience.

India is investing heavily in Knowledge Management. Discussion groups and forums are filled with indian experts and those who soon will become expert.

The world is continouing to outsource business processes. One can argue that we don?t outsource the knowledge that goes with it. But if one does not perform a process any longer, how can one gather experience from it?

It will be essential to find ways to turn this trend around.

Possible action may include:
-teach children conceptual thinking and problem solving, not only facts
-teach consequential thinking and impact analysis
-promote sharing of knowledge as the new way of being a hero
-guide business to create knowledge management solutions for outsourcing that bring the experience back to the employees
-.. and others

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