KnowledgeBoard #131 - 1 June

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Your Global KM Community

 

 

EDITOR'S NOTE

 

Please take a moment to fill in our survey; we need your feedback

in order to make the site better. Debra Amidon and her co-editors

are joining us on 14 June to discuss the Entovation network's new

book - this will be a highly stimulating event.

 

Best wishes,

 

KB Editor

mailto:editor@knowledgeboard.com

 

 

SIG AND OTHER CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

Take part in the KB feedback survey

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As from today and through the next couple of weeks, KB is running

a feedback survey in which we will learn from you, our customers,

what you think about the KnowledgeBoard activities, community and

site. The survey is very short; only 12 questions - and takes

only a few minutes to fill out.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/poll/survey.html

 

KB event: Meet the E100 authors to discuss Knowledge Economics

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14 June, 15:00 CET (14:00 GMT), online in the KB chatroom.

Join us for a unique virtual event, meet and converse with several

of the world experts in Knowledge Economics; the editors and

authors of this new book. An opportunity to ask what they think

on issues that matter, or express your own believes and

experiences.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?thread_id=20

 

Online cost-engineering service to help SMEs build business

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Cost estimates are fundamental to business decisions. Indeed,

some believe that 'cost has become a business driver.' Which is

why a prototype set of online cost-engineering services that

could help engineers understand and benefit from best estimating

practice in key industry sectors has been developed.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/2722

 

Psychology of tacit knowledge (Russian language)

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Within this article, Tetyana Andrusenko provides an overview on

the psychology of tacit knowledge.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/2725

 

 

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* Featured event: KM for professional services *

* 13-14 June, London, UK *

Ark's conference looks at the culture in a professional services

environment and addresses the key issues in achieving the vision

of creating a programme that is aligned with business strategy.

Attend this crucial event and hear from expert speakers who have

moved KM to the next level in their organisations.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/211

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COMMUNITY

 

Add your comments by clicking the 'add a comment' link at the

bottom of every article.

 

Is KM going down?

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Rene Stach's provocative suggestion continues to be

discussed.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?topic_id=28

 

Call for contributions: Interacting with KM systems

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For this special issue, we invite contributions from the academic

and practitioner communities. We would like to especially

encourage papers stemming from collaborative engagements between

the scholarly and practitioner community. We invite contributions

that are both empirical and conceptual, and are open to all

methodological stances from case-studies, to surveys, action

research, and simulations.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/2726

 

 

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* Featured event: Knowledge and Content UK *

* 4-6 July, London, UK *

The UK's No1 event for knowledge sharing and collaborative

working, KCUK is the only event that draws the UK's knowledge,

content and online information-management community together for

three days of learning and networking.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/219

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KM EVENTS

 

You can register for events online by clicking on the 'Register'

link on the bottom of each event listing. This is only a sample

of our listings; for a full list of KM events, see:

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events

 

E-learning and the way humans learn

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6 June, London, UK

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/195

 

3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 06)

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11-14 June, Budva, Montenegro

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/145

 

Knowledge work and management at Informs

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25-28 June, Hong Kong

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/162

 

Information Management: Understanding & Engaging your End-Users

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28-29 June, Sydney, Australia

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/213

 

 

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* Advances: Innovation and KM in Research & Product Development *

* 5-7 July, Oxford, UK *

A 3 day Interactive Workshop on emerging industry best practices

led by Victor Newman, Paul Lefrere, David Gurteen, David Snowden,

Innovation Management, Strategic Research Management, Complex

Systems, Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Assessment,

metrics, IP, Valuation, ELNs. Special offers available to

Knowledgeboard members, European SMEs and Organisations.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/events/206

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