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Web 2 Tools for Facilitating Knowledge Management

Web 2 Tools for Facilitating Knowledge Management

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Doing final prep today for the Web 2 tools training course that I’m running on Tuesday 29th March. Key outcomes for the training are: An understanding of social networks and social media and the overlap between personal and professional identities. An understanding of the barriers to knowledge sharing and collaboration and how these can be overcome. Creation of a personalised social computing toolkit to support on-going learning and development in collaborative tools and techniques. This will be highly practical, hands-on training…

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The Knowledge Hub – part 3 :User Experience (UX)

The Knowledge Hub – part 3 :User Experience (UX)

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I thought it was probably about time to post an update about the Knowledge Hub; I’ve had my head under the bonnet of the technology for longer than I had intended and given the proximity of the Beta release in April this year I should probably surface for air and reorientation. Background Given it’s been a couple of months since I last posted on this topic, a quick recap on what this is all about: The concept for the Knowledge…

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Social Media Policies and Guidelines (List)

Social Media Policies and Guidelines (List)

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I’ve been running a regular social media training event for some time now and have gradually built up a fairly comprehensive knowledge asset at the Social Media Toolkit Wiki that I use as the foundation for the training. Given the general thirst for information on social media policies and guidelines, I thought I’d collate a few of the more popular links here. I hope this is useful to anyone who is in the process of developing policies or guidelines, or…

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Web 2.0 tools for facilitating knowledge management

Web 2.0 tools for facilitating knowledge management

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Having run a number of social media workshops for UK Local Government over the past few months, I will be focusing specifically on how social media and social networking (Web 2.0) can support the development of personal learning – ‘Knowledge Management’ at the forthcoming TFPL training event on 24th March 2010 – open to both public and private sector organisations. There has been considerable interest in this training so I’m anticipating that there may be a few more courses shceduled…

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Say No To Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

Say No To Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

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I’ve often wondered why there isn’t more of a groundswell of discontent amongst users who have no other choice but to use Internet Explorer version 6 (IE6) as their interface to the web world. I’m thinking primarily of public sector workers who probably had this installed on their PCs several years ago along with the perfunctory use of Sharepoint. I have to assume that in most cases they don’t know what they are missing with Social Web enabled browsers such…

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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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The Impact Of The Social Web In 21st Century Organisations

The Impact Of The Social Web In 21st Century Organisations

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The following was published in the Guardian IT Supplement on Thursday 26th November. It was produced as a leader article for the Online Information Conference 2009. We are witnessing an extraordinary growth in user-generated content, whether it is conversations on social networks such as MySpace, Bebo or Facebook, or photos and videos uploaded to websites such as YouTube and Flickr, or comments and opinions published in the ‘blogosphere’ or ‘twitterverse’.  It has never been easier to get ‘digitally connected’, where…

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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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Social by Social Game

Social by Social Game

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David Wilcox (Social Reporter) has produced an excellent post describing the ‘Social by Social’ game that a few of us at the Net Tuesday meeting took part in. This was the first time I had attended a Net Tuesday meeting, which is run on the first Tuesday of each month, and intend making this a regular item in my diary. Thanks too to Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward for organising us all on the day.

Social Media Game for NGLIS

Social Media Game for NGLIS

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I was asked by the Network of government library and information specialists (NGLIS) to run a workshop session on Social Media Tools for their 2009 Conference, held in London 3rd June 2009. I thought this might be an ideal opportunity to run the Social Media Game that  David Wilcox and Beth Kanter had developed. I enlisted the support of my colleague Dave Briggs, who I know had run this game before, and set about preparing the cards in accordance with…

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