Upcoming Events:

Kim is part of an Industry Roundtable Professional Development event hosted by the Knowledge Media Design Institute on Thursday March 4th, 4-6pm at the University of Toronto iSchool.

Kim is presenting at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN March 17-18 2010.

Registration for Computers in Libraries 2010 is now open. April 12-14, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Kim is presenting at IASSIST 2010: Social Data and Social Networking: Connecting Social Science Communities Across the Globe in Ithaca, NY June 1-4 2010.

Registration for SLA's Annual Conference is now open. The conference is in New Orleans, June 13-16, 2010.

KMWorld 2010 is in Washington, D.C. this year; November 16-18, 2010. The call for speakers is now open.

KMWorld 2008: SharePoint Search in a Legal Environment

Presented by Jennifer McNenly and Matthew Frederick,
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Although this case study describes a legal environment, the learning can be applied to any environment.

Life before the FindIt! Portal:

thousands of structured and unstructured documents
no centralized enterprise search
no metadata

Step 1: Defining the Search Scopes – created four basic scopes: people, precedents and research, firm information, [...]

KMWorld 2008: What Have We Done Before?

Presented by James Robertson, Step Two Designs

How do we break down silos, and improve conversations across and through them?

Top-down communication is working …  but horizontal communication is poor. A chat over a beer (or around the water cooler) is often not enough. The weaknesses continue to be exposed with the rise of Web 2.0.

How do [...]

KMWorld 2008: Information Discovery Trends

Presented by Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch.

When people think of search, they think of Google; simple, give me what I’m looking for now.

The problem with information discovery and enterprise search is much more complex than that. We have many different systems and repositories that need to be accessed.

The idea is that you should be able [...]

KMWorld 2008 Thursday Keynote – Search 3.0: Knowledge Management and Discovery

Peter Morville, Semantic Studios

Peter’s blog:  findability.org

Information that’s hard to find will remain information that’s hardly found.

Peter will talk about how search must fit into the larger architecture.

Peter is a librarian (wonderful!!) who fell in love with the Internet in the early 1990’s. As a consultant he works with a wide variety of clients including corporations, [...]

KMWorld 2008 Tuesday Keynote – Building an Innovation Capability & Culture: A Blueprint

Presented by Peter Skarzynski, CEO, Strategos and author, Innovation to the Core – A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

Peter provides his thoughts on building an innovation capability within the organization.

Why bother with innovation?

Gary Hamel: “Innovation is the only way to stay ahead of the curve.”

There is a rhetoric gap between innovation being [...]