Is Social Media/Computing the New KM?

Certainly seems so. In addition to preparing a presentation about Enterprise 2.0, I recently listened in on PBworks webinar with Forrester Research Senior Analyst Oliver Young, who highlighted that the old KM was document-centric, and the new KM combines the old with a people-centric focus. Novel idea! And perhaps best facilitated with Social Media/Computing. Yes?
Wasn’t [...]

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Using Enterprise 2.0 in KM

This… hot off the “press” (WordPress!) and ready for my KPM (Knowledge and Project Management) Symposium presentation Aug. 12 and 13 at the University of Oklahoma Tulsa campus.
Using Enterprise 2.0 in Knowledge Management

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Congratulations PBworks!

If you haven’t tried a “pb”wiki, it’s definitely time you tried the new “PB”works. This fast-growing, collaborative web platform company provides enterprises and educators… small and large… a wonderful way to do all those important knowledge management things with what they know:
Create it
Capture it
Secure it
Combine it
Pool it
Edit it
Connect it
Share it
Transfer it
Distribute it
Network it
Web 2.0 it
Manage [...]

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Communicating on the web

Students from the “Design and Implementation of Web-based Services” class summarized the semester’s self-initiated, self-directed group project in a presentation to the OU infrastructure committee this past Friday. I was gravely disappointed as anticipated exuberance was deflated when focus turned away from positive ways to improve our current SLIS site and utilize the web for [...]

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One step closer…

For those of you who have been following my “saga” regarding the MSKM comprehensive exam, I’d like to report that at 3:40 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008, I found out that I DID in fact adequately answer all three questions, thus passing the exam. Yeah!
This leaves me with completing a relational database management [...]

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thanks Mary…

… this just in from Mary: an excellent resource from the School of Information Resources and Library Sciences at The University of Arizona: The Information Professional’s Glossary. This might be a good final check of definitions we need to know.

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are we untamed?

In an effort to become a “tamed” knowledge professional, I’ve been spending a good deal of time studying for comprehensive exams and pondering what lies ahead… for me AND our profession. Many a rant have surfaced while I scour the literature, but none has ignited my soul and caused me to come out of hiding [...]

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Follow up to Metacrap Happens…

The debate over authoritative and “acceptable” sources and the ability to find information continues. And the old way and new way of information seeking behavior continue to collide. Perhaps the two worlds, that being the real world and the academic world, are beginning to co-join thanks to Google’s Knols.  The Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog discusses its impact on the library community and [...]

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Knowledge Synthesis

What happens when you mix project management and knowledge management? A super symposium, a room full of bright people and novel ideas, and an awareness that brings organizations to a new level of excitement about how to capitalize on their most important asset: it’s people.
I’m just in from the 2-day conference on knowledge and project [...]

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