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: Virtual Worlds and Next Generation Social Net Experiences

Presenter:

Dr. Cindy Gordon, CEO, Helix Commerce International Inc.

Cindy speaks about Web 2.0, virtual worlds, and some research highlights from her upcoming book, 2bevirtual or Not!

Evolution to Web 2.0:

1st wave = email, calendar, discussion forums, group scheduling, groupware

2nd wave = virtual workspaces, instant messaging, portals, web conferencing

3rd wave = blogs, wikis, RSS, social networks, social bookmarking, [...]

KMWorld – Where in the World is KM Going?

Panelist #1:Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS GroupTom talks about the history of ideas, and the future of KM.The crisis in KM:

Rumours of the death of KM
CIO is reporting to the CFO, not the CEO
Second or Third Identity Crisis re: what KM is; feels like we’re lurching, not building
Web 2.0 is not the answer, whatever the [...]

KMWorld 2008 – People Drive Web 2.0:Participation Reconsidered

Presenter:

Peter Andrews, Innovation Strategist & Senior Consulting Faculty Member, IBM Executive Business Institute

The needs of the previous generation are very different from today. In today’s context, things change very quickly. Major Web 2.0 tools include:

Blogs and podcasts
social networks
mash-ups and wikis
tags and syndication
virtual worlds

The problem is that many executives don’t get it, so the executive blog is [...]

KMWorld 2008 – KM2.0: From Content and Collection to Context and Collaboration

Presenter:Dave Pollard, VP Knowledge Development, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants 

Dave’s talk outlines the early KM efforts, from the early days in 1994, to present. He also speaks about where KM is going in terms of the ways the Gen Milleniums are communicating, and the impact of these new communication techniques on the organization.

KM 1.0 model [...]

KMWorld 2008: Portals for Knowledge Sharing

Presenter: Janus Boye of J. Boye

Janus is a big fan of social media such as wikis and Facebook because they focus on community and knowledge sharing.   Janus presents his Top 4 Knowledge Sharing Enemies:

Intranets – because they are not editable. Wikis can be a solution here.
Knowledge Management – because they tend to be chaotic; there are [...]