A friend is moving to Los Angeles and is considering going back to school for a masters-level degree related to knowledge management. Can you provide any suggestions as to which schools have KM-like programs.
Knowledge retention is an important issue in business these days. This month's K Street Directions tells us about a story from NPR on Raiders of the Lost Tapes, where the knowledge is tapes of the Apollo moon landing.
Dick Richards of Come Gather Round gives an example of why he suggests "Don't Sheild Them From Distress: An Example" and closes with the great comment that "truth alone will not initiate change."
A KnowNow press release says, "KnowNow has released three new solutions designed to instantly connect people with critical information." It sounds like an aggregator and blogging tool packaged together.
The Work Foundation has a new report that suggests the "Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes." They are in the beginnings of a multi-year project to clearly define the knowledge economy.
Patrick Lambe points to "Negative Knowledge, Expertise and Organisations" by Jaana Parviainen and Marja Eriksson of University of Tampere, Finland.
Maron Demissie, one of the students in the MS LOC program at Northwestern, has just completed her Master's Capstone entitled, "The Quest for Increased Knowledge Sharing Within Design Firms."
Bruce LaDuke suggests that IT KM are Boat Anchors because they don't have a connection to the true performance of the organization. He suggests it is the realm of HR performance management that provides much better connection to improvement. But what if people are performing the wrong things?
LinkedIn has been adding features, and a new one has popped up that seems like it might be worthwhile: You can now Break Connections yourself, rather than sending email to customer service.
I just rediscovered this ride report from my friend Barry Reich. Several of us went on the 1994 Pennsylvania Dutch MS150 together. Barry recounts the fun and the misery with brevity and wit.
David Snowden has dropped Cynefin for Cognitive Edge, and he has started a blog. It will be interesting to see where he goes with this form of communication.
The Guardian reports that about 1% of the people online actually create content, 10% interact with it, and the rest just view it. Good to know, if you are trying to make something happen.
FCW.com has an article on Army lessons learned that focuses on their Army Knowledge Management program, which appears to be successful. The program itself seems to be heavily techno-centric.
I came across a faculty opening at Kent State in their Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM) program. They are primarily looking for someone who does information architecture and / or usability work, rather than people invested in the Knowledge Management side.
Patrick Lambe has What is knowledge sharing (and this from February) and Why do we share knowledge, based on a recent discussion. And this leads to Euan Semple and Sharon Richardson's discussion of one element of knowledge sharing: humor and personality.
Steve Barth's last "Personal Toolkit" column, "Mapping the mind's eye," in the May 2006 KM World discusses two items in my toolbox, MindManager and PersonalBrain.
The May 2006 issue of ACM Queue has some fun with the idea of artificial Artificial Intelligence, "Will artificial AI create a new class of intelligent applications?" The article talks about the design of Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Hai Zhuge has an article on "Discovery of Knowledge Flow in Science" in the May 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM. Zhuge focuses on the scientific citation network that is a familiar topic in academic circles, but the concept applies anywhere you can find citations, such as in blogs.