Further supporting the contention that KM/knowledge services is becoming more and more recognized in the management community, attention is now turning to how the discipline is taught and how its practitioners might obtain qualifications that support their expertise. We touched here on the subject in two recent posts. On May 18, we posted KM Education Forum: Educators Seek Consensus at First Annual Summit, in which we included a link to an SMR Special Report on that meeting. On July 22, we posted KM/Knowledge Services Certification, responding to a query at a LinkedIn discussion list. Now David Griffiths has come up with a very thoughtful…
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I’m a big fan of Ian Thorpe’s blog – KM on a Dollar a Day – and I’m not shy about recommending that others take a look. Here’s another opportunity for the rest of us to pick up some good tips, regardless of the industry we work in. Ian’s latest post, the second of two (although he’s promising more) is about the role of learning, a subject about which he feels strongly (as do I). He’s writing about how aid organizations can make learning part of their brand, and his comments are valuable for any corporate or organizational function. In…
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After the build-up in prior posts about the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) – held in Philadelphia last month – a bit of follow-up is appropriate. I won’t report on the entire conference, but I’m happy to share a few comments about some of the activities. Perhaps this brief post will be of interest to knowledge workers who read these posts and provoke some useful knowledge sharing. A first impression – and I’ve certainly seen this coming over the past couple of years or so – is that KM/knowledge services is no longer the esoteric but hard-to-define management…
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