Manage Energy, Reduce Demand With Real-Time Information - Water World
April 29, 2009
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Manage Energy, Reduce Demand With Real-Time Information
Water World In the last five years MNWD has invested in operational knowledge management and plant information systems that allow the operator to make “active” energy … |
Call for papers: Second international workshop on managing requirements knowledge
April 21, 2009
The Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’09)Workshop is in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference Atlanta, USA - September 1st, 2009 (http://www.re09.org/)
KC UK, KM Asia and KM Australia
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
I thought you would like to know that I will be chairing the knowledge sharing stream of KC UK 2009 8 - 9 June this year. This is the major UK KM event and the organizers - the Ark Group - have kindly offered all my readers a 25% discount. I attend this conference most years and have chaired it twice in the past. Its a great event and I look forward to seeing many of you there.
Later in the year, I will be speaking and running a workshop at KM Asia 2009 24 - 26 November in Singapore.
And you may wish to check out KM Australia 2009 4 -7 August if you live down-under. This must be the only major KM conference I have yet to participate in but one of the other David’s Dave Snowden will be there giving a keynote.
All three conferences are from the Ark Group.
Sharing books via BookCrossing
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
I’d like to give a big thanks to Marja Kingma (@Marjakingma) for introducing me to BookCrossing - a great way of sharing books you no longer need.
I can’t remember who but someone also told me about BookMooch. But I think I prefer BookCrossing as it is less effort.
I have not started using BookCrossing yet - but I do have piles of old business magazines. Every time I go out, I take one with me and leave it somewhere such as a train or a cafe! Hopefully it gets read again before being binned and finally recycled!
Smart People Magazine launched!
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
Jerry Ash has just gone live with his new magazine Smart People. You can view the first issue online or download it as a pdf.
The entire first issue of Smart People magazine is free, and all lead stories in subsequent magazines are unlocked for public access. The remainder is open to subscribers only.
Smart People Magazine turns corporate knowledge management inside out, brings the power of knowledge work to the mainstream and applies it to living, learning, choosing, creating and working. The power has always been there, and the Web has multiplied your knowledge a million times through the search, communication and social network capabilities of the Internet.
Credit: Smart People Magazine
Its a great new magazine and I’d like to congratulate Jerry and his team on all their hard work. I am also pleased to say I am on the editorial board representing KM.
TEDx: Create and host your own TED event!
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
If you think TED is amazing then you will love TEDx. And if you have not visited TED yet and found out what all the fuss is about - shame on you!
TEDTalks are the most provocative, inspirational and informative talks on the web from leading edge thinkers and innovators from around the globe.
Here is a mind-blowing talk from JoAnn Kuchera-Morin .
TEDx is a program that enables schools, businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to enjoy a TED-like experience through events they themselves organize, design and host. We’re supporting approved organizers by offering a free toolset that includes detailed advice, the right to use recorded TEDTalks, promotion on our site, connection to other organizers, and a little piece of our brand in the form of the TEDx label.
Credit: TED
Let me know if are inspired to run your own TEDx event and I will help you promote it.
The Curious Cat
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
Maybe not too surprisingly, I am still hugely enjoying my daughter Lauren’s blog - The Curious Cat (Welcome to The Curious Cat, a blog about being curious, about all the little things in life that bring me pleasure and happiness: cooking, art, literature, friends and family, cats…).
Her piece on Classics: Twitter Style! is a hoot! And then there is the touching post about death and her cousin Emma.
What is the meaning of life?
April 18, 2009
By David Gurteen
I recently discovered TweetBrain - a complementary tool to Twitter. It allows you to post a question and receive answers from fellow tweeters. Others can vote on the answers given and finally you can choose what you consider to be the best answer.
To test the system out I posted the question Does anyone know the meaning of life, the universe and everything? I received 38 replies before closing the session. Not too surprisingly the answer 42 proved popular!
My choice? Well I went for an answer submitted by Marc Scrivener from Viktor Frankl from his book Mans Search for Meaning that has long been my favorite.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Credit: Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
But take a look … which is your favorite? And oh yes and TweetBrain seems quite a useful little tool.
Have you seen my BLU videos?
April 15, 2009
By David Gurteen
In April 2005, BLU, the UK’s Business Link University, which no longer exists, hired Fifty Lessons to produce a series of video stories for them and I was invited to contribute. They shot six short videos that you can view here on my website - little stories relevant to KM.
I had loaded them to Google Video but Google is not putting little effort into Google Video since they acquired YouTube - so much so they have actually lost many of my videos and I am having to upload them again to YouTube.
ADVERTISEMENT: Online Master of Science in Knowledge Management program
April 15, 2009
By David Gurteen
Interested in pursuing a formal qualification in Knowledge Management? The MSc in KM offered by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University may suit you. Entering its 5th year of operation, characteristics of this program are
- Balanced coverage of human and IT-oriented approach to managing knowledge at the personal, group and organisational levels
- Suitable for knowledge workers in all industries and learnt concepts are widely applicable
- True multi-media delivery with games, animation, peer-to-peer interactions supplementing online content and web seminars
To find out more about this program, please register to attend the next online information session:
7pm (GMT +8 hours), 5th May 2009
To register, please send email to Miss Tiffany Ho
For more information, please visit http://www.ise.polyu.edu.hk/km/content/km_subject.htm
