On May 5-6, 2011, the Knowledge Management Education Forum (KMEF) brought together some 75 educators in the field of knowledge management (KM) to share their thoughts about how KM is taught and how students learn KM. This First Annual KMEF Summit was held on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC. An initiative of the KM faculties of George Washington University and Kent State University, KMEF is described as “an on-going, annual dialog … an endeavor to identify and grow consensus on the knowledge management body of knowledge, competencies, roles, and curriculum.” The KMEF emphasis is not limited…
read more »
Why not? As is often the case in our knowledge-sharing community, this post is inspired by a recent query on LinkedIn. This one was posted on LinkedIn’s Knowledge Management Group, from Aprill Allen: “What are your thoughts on intranets as a platform for knowledge management? No fancy SaaS or software, just an internal website. I know it has limitations and wouldn’t scale well, but for small companies and for many types of businesses, it could do the job quite well. What would be your suggestions to someone who might consider starting on this path?” And Aprill’s query comes just as…
read more »
The new profession is strategic knowledge management, and managers who lead strategic knowledge in their companies are corporate knowledge strategists, the company’s knowledge thought leaders. Want to join this new profession? Find out more at the next information sessions for Columbia University’s M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy. Join us for either (or both) of these: – What: Information Session – Where: Online – When: Thursday, 12th May – Time: 6.00 PM EST – R.S.V.P. Here OR – What: In-person Information Session – Where: Columbia University, Lerner Hall, Satow Room – When: Tuesday, 24th May – Time: 6.00 PM…
read more »