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Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

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The second meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group took place yesterday, 7th December. ( For some background to the Knowledge Hub see previous posting). It was regretable that we didn’t get more attendees from local authorities, but those who did manage to attend were involved in some excellent workshop sessions aimed at teasing out their vision for how the Knowledge Hub would deliver efficiency and performance improvements for the local government sector. This was a valuable exercise because we…

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Online Information 2009 – not to be missed

Online Information 2009 – not to be missed

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I’m looking for to attending the Online Information Conference next week, which runs from 1-3 December at the Olympia. The schedule for the three days can be found on the Online Information website. There are some great speakers lined up, including Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, who will be doing a keynote presentation on Thursday 3rd December. Of particular interest to me is the Track 2 (Social Web ) Keynote session on the 3rd December  on: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED…

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Records Management in a Web 2.0 World

Records Management in a Web 2.0 World

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My colleague James Lappin (Thinking Records Ltd) recently hosted and facilitated a podcast with me, Steve Baily – senior adviser on records management issues for JISC infoNet and author of the hugely successful and thought-provoking book ‘Managing the Crowd, rethinking records management for the web 2.0 world‘ and Elizabeth Lomas, PhD Researcher at Northumbria University. I was indeed in esteemed company! For me this was an opportunity to air the views I had previously blogged about regarding a perceived disinterest or…

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Taxonomies and Folksonomies

Taxonomies and Folksonomies

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Thanks to Steve Wheeler (aka @timbuckteeth) for picking up the conversation I started on Twitter  where I defined a Taxonomist as: One who organizes information in ways that make sense to content providers, rather that content users. Steve’s riposte was to define a ‘Folksonomist’ as: One who organizes information in ways that make sense to his/her own community of practice or interest. I know that strictly speaking the role of a ‘folksonomist’ may not exist, since folksonomies tend to emerge…

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Information Management in a Web 2.0 world

Information Management in a Web 2.0 world

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I’ve given a few talks and presentations recently to various groups and departments from the UK public sector on the dichotomy between the traditional and highly structured information management (IM) disciplines and the almost anarchic environment that we refer to as ‘Web 2.0’.  I’m reasonably familiar with both sides of this equation having spent most of my life as an information management professional before turning to the dark side about seven years ago to embrace the world of knowledge management….

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Online Information Conference – Call for Speakers

Online Information Conference – Call for Speakers

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For anyone who has not yet made a submission for the 2009 Online Conference, the deadline has now been extended to Friday 8th May. The organisers want to hear from people and organisations that have transformed themselves to be more agile and flexible by exploiting open linked data and conversation streams.  They are looking for exciting, innovative applications as well as lessons learned from Twittering and mash-ups.  They want to show case organisations that are using semantic web techniques to create…

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EDRM and Web 2.0 – where two worlds collide.

EDRM and Web 2.0 – where two worlds collide.

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Possibly at a slight tangent to the collaboration and knowledge management memes that I normally write about, and no doubt exposing my roots in Information Management, I’ve been doing some research into the potential dichotomies between the highly structured and organised world of document and records management, and the relatively unstructured (some might almost say ‘anarchic’) world of Web 2.0.  I’ve been particularly intrigued by how Information and Records Managers working for public sector organisations seem to be oblivious to…

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What makes a good knowledge professional?

What makes a good knowledge professional?

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Some reflections on my experience at the Exploiting Knowledge and Information symposium held at Cranfield University on 1-2 October 2008. The event was sponsored by the UK Government’s Knowledge Council. Given this was an event for senior civil servants I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised by the fact that most speakers spent a good proportion of their time explaining how important they were, what power they wield and what governance structures they had set up/were responsible for. As…

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Data Privacy and Security – closing the stable door?

Data Privacy and Security – closing the stable door?

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I was recently asked to do a presentation on the topic of ‘Effective Information Management’ for a local government organisation. Part of the presentation covered data security and privacy, where I emphasise the the importance of policies and procedures created BY people FOR people. The point being that we already have the technology to ensure data and information remains secure, but if we don’t pay attention to how people use these systems, through appropriate policies, procedures and training, then we’re…

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Definitions for Information Management and Knowledge Management

Definitions for Information Management and Knowledge Management

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With a background in both Information Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM) disciplines, I’m often asked how they relate to each other, and what we actually mean by “IM” and “KM”. Providing text book definitions does not help, because even these are clouded by jargon and tend to be verbose. I’ve therefore tried to construct a very simple definition for both IM and KM which also infers the relationship between them, as follows: Information Management: The structure, organisation, classification and…

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