Excellent article on SNA in corporate environments

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

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

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

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

KM Research by Microsoft

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

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

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

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

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

Stan Garfields Weekly KM Blog - this week on knowledge sharing

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

The navy is im'ing

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

KM Chicago Event

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

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