At the LinkedIn Knowledge Management Group, Firoz Kahn recently asked, “I’ve been in the field for a number of years and recently my employer has asked for me to recommend some courses to get some official titles under my belt in KM. Any ideas?” Here’s how I responded. Thanks for bringing this up, Firoz. The proper response depends on how you define “certification.” If you’re looking for a certificate that simply states that you have attended a course or a program of courses (i.e., you and your management are satisfied with a statement that simply attests to the fact that…
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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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Monday, June 13th has turned into an informal KM Day at the up-coming Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association in Philadelphia. Strategic knowledge professionals and KM specialists planning to attend the conference will want to mark their programs to take advantage of these sessions. A 10.00 AM SLA Spotlight Session features Larry Prusak, Professor of Practice at Columbia University and a member of Columbia University’s M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy Program Advisory Committee. In the Columbia program, Professor Prusak teaches “Collaboration and Networking Issues and Methods.” In the SLA Spotlight Session Professor Prusak will speak on “Knowledge in…
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