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ContactivityDoing Knowledge Management |
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After our KB workshops at KCC Europe, the KB events unit agreed to take the concept of 'members telling us what they wanted to talk about' a little further. Thus the event is designed from its very core to surface issues that attendees want to work on in advance (one of the event team partners is Martin Leith who does a lot of 'co-creation' work and we are very keen on ensuring that everyone coming feels some ownership of the issues and the event itself). We will provide the KM infrastructure within which we could all approach these issues over two days. Following on from a long history of KB research most recently presented at the eChallenges conference in 2005 (virtual and physical CoPs comparisons), we think that the Communities of Practice (CoPs) framework, combined with excellent co-creation design and collaborative technology is the best way to think about any gathering of people around a topic. We think that this idea is a good foundation for thinking about knowledge exchange practices in all organisations, not just our own virtual community. So we need a research base to study and a theoretical analysis from which to study it from. So Contactivity is: A serious highly interactive, learning goals-oriented meeting of minds from all networks and professional paths which is also the experiential material for an academically-supported research project. It's a CoP because we will work together across a pre-defined lifecycle (in both the virtual and physical environments), and we use co-creation to surface the issues (from the 'Define Domain' phase onwards). Although we do not identify Contactivity as a 'conference', we equally do not identify it as an 'un-conference'. We see it more as a 'constructivist conference'. We are here to do Knowledge Management together on the issues we need to do it on. So we focus on real world problems defined by ourselves with experienced practitioners, seasoned researchers, (also some 'clients' of KM from organisations we hope) and a range of workshop techniques through which we will go together. Naturally the networking stuff will be proceeding at full speed all the way through the event. From the moment we put our names on this wiki, we consider ourselves to be in the 'Build Community' CoP phase: Dr. Wolf and Troxler's facilitated networking with Simon Intetek's technical SNA tool is something to be beheld - last time I veered between composting household waste and analysing pragmatic, tangible CoP development indicators.
Ed Mitchell, KnowledgeBoard
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