Abstract: If its a tough job being a knowledge manager, it’s an even tougher job to trust them with your organisation’s culture and infrastructure. A survey we conducted last year for iKMS found that most knowledge managers are teleported into their jobs from somewhere else, have very little prior knowledge or expertise in KM,
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Blog articles relevant to Knowledge Management education and the Knowledge Management career profile
SLA Knowledge Management (KM) Certification!?
Abstract: The SLA Knowledge Management Division has been having a lively discussion regarding KM certification via the listserv that members are automatically subscribed to when joining. This division is relatively new to SLA but, if the programs at the annual conference and the traffic on the listserv is any evidence of success of
Knowledge Managers Share Knowledge!?
Abstract: I’ve had a creeping suspicion for some time that knowledge managers are fine about encouraging others to share knowledge, but that dictum doesn’t apply to them. In my role as President of iKMS I am always trying to get knowledge managers to share, and the ones who do are in the brave minority
Stop teaching Knowledge Management
Abstract: I just read an article that suggested not to use the term “knowledge sharing” outside of the KM team. I’ve been thinking the same thing for the last few days… I think a truly successful corporate initiative should be done by stealth.
Blogging in a Knowledge Management class – summary
Abstract: For those that have been following my blog for at least three months, you’ll know that I’ve had my students reading blogs and keeping their own. The class and the blogging experiment just finished, and they had a final paper in which they summarized their experiences and answered some final questions I