Gurteen Knowledge-Log

Blog Post: Travel update for 2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:39:47 +0100

By David Gurteen

I am about to enter a busy travel period between now and the end of the year, including what is starting to become an annual event: five weeks in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand-Singapore.

ECKM: Portugal 1-3 September
Know-Tech Conference: Bad Homburg; Germany 14 - 15 September
KM Egypt;Cairo: Egypt 20 - 24 September
Singapore, 8- 10 October
Sydney, 11 - 15 October
Implementing the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe; Sydney 12 October
Gurteen Learning: An interactive open forum on what needs to be done to Drive KM within our business; Sydney 13 October
ActKM: Canberra 17- 19 October
Melbourne, 20 -23 October
Christchurch, 24 -26 October
Nelson Principals Association Conference, Nelson, 27 - 29 October
Wellington, 30 October - 3 November
Auckland, 4 - 5 November
Singapore, 6 - 14 November

If you would like to meet with me, get in touch!

Blog Post: August 2010: Major KM Events over next 12 months

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:12:14 +0100

By David Gurteen

This section highlights some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. You will find a full list on my website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts and RSS feeds which will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.

Masterclass: Implementing a Knowledge Cafe
25 Aug 2010, London, United Kingdom
Yet another opportunity to learn how to run and apply Knowledge Cafes.

11th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2010)
02 - 03 Sep 2010, Vila Nova de Famalic�o, Portugal
I will be attending this event for the seventh year in succession.

KnowTech Pre-Conference Tutorial with David Gurteen
14 Sep 2010, Bad Homburg, Germany
This is a Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Masterclass - my first in Germany.

KnowTech 2010
15 - 16 Sep 2010, Bad Homburg, Germany
I will be giving a keynote talk at this conference and running a pre-conference workshop.

KM Singapore 2010
16 - 17 Sep 2010, Singapore City, Singapore
I will not be at KM Singapore this year.

KM Egypt 2010
21 - 22 Sep 2010, Cairo, Egypt
I will be speaking at this event. My first trip to Egypt!

Implementing the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe
12 Oct 2010, Sydney, Australia
I will be running this workshop during my October trrip to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

Gurteen Learning: An interactive open forum on what needs to be done to Drive KM within our business
13 Oct 2010, Sydney, Australia
I will be running this workshop during my October trrip to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

actKM Conference 2010
18 - 19 Oct 2010, Canberra, Australia
I will be speaking at this conference on "What Km practitioners can learn from Positive Deviance".

7th�International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning (ICICKM 2010)
11 - 12 Nov 2010, Hong Kong, China

KMWorld & Intranets 2010
16 - 18 Nov 2010, Washington DC, United States
This event will be in Washington DC this year but I won't be attending.

KM Asia 2010
23 - 25 Nov 2010, Singapore City, Singapore
I will not be at KM Asia this year.

Online Information Conference 2010
30 Nov - 02 Dec 2010, London, United Kingdom

3rd Iranian Knowledge Management Conference
08 - 09 Feb 2011, Tehran, Iran
I will be speaking at this conference in Tehran

Henley Knowledge Mangement Forum Annual Conference
16 - 17 Feb 2011, Greenlands, Henley on Thames, United Kingdom

Online Information Asia-Pacific 2011
23 - 24 Mar 2011, Hong Kong, China

Blog Post: Don't Call Me a Guru, Dammit!

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:44:46 +0100

By David Gurteen

I occasionally get called a "KM guru". I appreciate the compliment but I don't like the term and I don't like being labelled a guru. I usually laugh it off by objecting that I am not a "Kangaroo". Say KM guru fast enough and it sounds like KM guru. LOL.

Given this, I rather liked this blog post by Rick Ladd Dont Call Me a Guru and Peter Drucker's observation that the only reason people called him a guru was that they did not know how to spell the word "charlatan".

Oh and one other pet peeve. If you call yourself an expert then you are most likely not one. To my mind only other people can bestow that honour on you. And even then, like the word guru, I am not so sure I like it. Both words smack of elitism and marketing hype.

Blog Post: Hot tweets: August 2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:04:48 +0100

By David Gurteen

Here are some of my more interesting Tweets for the month of August 2010. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. And if you like what you see then subscribe to my Tweets.

On knowledge, pizza and osmosis http://bit.ly/aCojAQ #km
Fri Aug 20 06:44:15 +0000 2010
RT @knowledgetank: Don’t Call Me a Guru, Dammit! http://bit.ly/92jh9M #km
Thu Aug 19 21:24:42 +0000 2010
Teachers are no longer central to their students' learning http://bit.ly/aKoE24
Thu Aug 19 21:22:00 +0000 2010
RT @knowledgetank: The authentic voice of Experience http://bit.ly/bKAcAx #KM
Thu Aug 19 09:36:57 +0000 2010
Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women is on a par with genocide http://bit.ly/9loiM6 /shocking!
Thu Aug 19 07:51:07 +0000 2010
John Cleese on Open And Closed Thinking Modes � Steps & Leaps http://bit.ly/at8yzH @davidpottinger #KM
Wed Aug 18 10:15:37 +0000 2010
Without a strategy to deliver growth or increase margins information systems will be unfocused and unused http://bit.ly/bUYNwe #KM
Wed Aug 18 08:39:51 +0000 2010
90% of knowledge needed to get work done is not supported by enterprise software or learning departments http://bit.ly/dmQl3b #KM
Tue Aug 17 16:32:21 +0000 2010
BIll Gates nails the future of education - why change is so hard too http://bit.ly/9PQUMO
Mon Aug 16 19:58:51 +0000 2010
RT @MarkRaganCEO Are community coffee shops the newsrooms of the future? I love this concept: http://bit.ly/dilDll /so do I
Mon Aug 16 14:21:52 +0000 2010
Putting stories to work is more than storytelling http://bit.ly/cYgNCF #km
Mon Aug 16 12:07:38 +0000 2010
Resilience and the incredible power of slow change http://bit.ly/8ZVjzh
Sun Aug 15 16:59:28 +0000 2010
The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues http://bit.ly/cWeFWN
Sat Aug 14 21:48:28 +0000 2010
Video:Think of an idea to change our world -- and put it into ACTION. http://bit.ly/csxnQx #socialgood
Sat Aug 14 13:02:09 +0000 2010
Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively http://bit.ly/aXO54c #KM
Sat Aug 14 11:15:20 +0000 2010
RT @GautamGhosh: RT @AkankshaHR: RT @PsyBlog How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control Us http://bit.ly/4zUNqr
Sat Aug 14 11:03:40 +0000 2010
Embracing the Chaotic: Cynefin and Humanitarian Response http://bit.ly/clcByw #KM
Sat Aug 14 10:49:24 +0000 2010
Photos: Pakistani floods http://bit.ly/d1N4SP /a taste of things to come?
Thu Aug 12 06:52:16 +0000 2010
Rethinking Fundraising http://bit.ly/aZHts6 #socialgood
Tue Aug 10 21:33:35 +0000 2010
The Demise Of The Internet Generation? http://bit.ly/b6WM2x /agree!
Tue Aug 10 16:59:40 +0000 2010
Forget Brainstorming http://bit.ly/bMEPuo #KM
Mon Aug 09 10:05:41 +0000 2010
Why Online Education Needs to Get Social http://bit.ly/b6qvkS
Fri Aug 06 09:34:06 +0000 2010
We should shift our focus from what we should be doing to what we are doing http://bit.ly/dfBX15 #KM
Fri Aug 06 09:28:30 +0000 2010
Understanding in context http://bit.ly/9w2c7u
Fri Aug 06 06:51:19 +0000 2010
Statistics and abstractions don’t make people act, stories do. http://bit.ly/9Sbd2d #KM
Fri Aug 06 06:32:57 +0000 2010
RT @BillGates: Great momentum for Giving Pledge – families announce commitment to give majority of their wealth http://bit.ly/cX6Fsg
Fri Aug 06 06:00:14 +0000 2010
Thinking Hotel: a chain of places for thinking in every city around the world http://bit.ly/9WiMpO #KM
Tue Aug 03 09:54:40 +0000 2010
British Industrial Revolution was dependent on child slavery. http://bit.ly/blLcTZ via @snowded #KM #socialgood
Tue Aug 03 07:28:35 +0000 2010
Charles Jennings: Why focus on informal and social learning http://bit.ly/dykUlN
Sun Aug 01 17:28:58 +0000 2010
A short walk in France with her camera by my daughter Lauren http://bit.ly/9C6hDF
Fri Jul 30 14:40:42 +0000 2010
Video: Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents http://bit.ly/bZZ0Lx
Wed Jul 28 12:57:52 +0000 2010
What would you like to change? http://bit.ly/bqPodg /love the kids ideas!
Tue Jul 27 13:43:10 +0000 2010

Blog Post: More Knowledge Cafe conversations

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:35:20 +0100

By David Gurteen

I was talking with my friend David Pottinger the other day over a beer or two. David has attended a number of my London Knowledge Cafes, including the last one at Arup. He was particular interested in the conversations that took place before and after at the Arup event and had blogged about them.

As we talked we came to realise that there were up to eight quite distinct phases of the Cafe were different types of conversation took place. This was something I had not seen before. Here are eight potential conversations:

Conversation with a friend at a pre-Cafe meeting and on way to Cafe on the tube
Conversation during the pre-Cafe networking session
Speed networking conversation at the start of the Cafe
Conversation in small groups as part of the Cafe
Conversation in whole group as part of the Cafe
Conversation during the networking session after the end of Cafe as people are leaving
Conversation at a local pub after the Cafe
Conversation on the tube or train on the way home

Not everyone gets to experience all eight of these conversations but many do. I for one, often meet up with someone before the Cafe and travel with them to the venue. There is conversation down the pub and I frequently travel home to Fleet with David as we live in the same town and of course the conversation continues.

That's a lot of conversations and each one is quite different. David's particular interest was the post-Cafe conversations as he felt this was the most interesting and productive phase. People are at their most relaxed and unfocused and thus the conversations often took an unexpected direction. People were also more likely to be themselves and not act out their job role.

Quite a fascinating insight. Its got both me and David thinking about how the nature of all of these conversations might be improved.

Blog Post: Update: Gurteen Knowledge Community Group on Linkedin

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:49:06 +0100

By David Gurteen

I talked about the Gurteen Knowledge Group on LinkedIn recently and how I was making it the central discussion forum for the Gurteen Knowledge Community.

Since then, over 120 people have registered and we are now up to 1,120 members or thereabouts. A few new discussions have started also.

If you are not a member, you can find more information here and register. Please join-up and start to use the forum, as apart from Facebook, it is the best place to meet and have discussions with other members of the community.

And if you would like to connect with me personally on LinkedIn please do so.

Blog Post: Academic Talk

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:54:55 +0100

By David Gurteen

Dan Remenyi is a visiting professor at the School of Systems and Data Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He is also a good friend.

Dan has created a new resource called Academic Talk on the Academic Conferences website. It is a collection of videos of talks that should be of interest to researchers. I find the one on "The Moral Side of Murder" by Michael Sandel of Harvard University quite fascinating. Go take a look!

Dan also has an interesting blog on Research Methodology that he recently started.

Blog Post: Dilbert pokes fun at Knowledge Management

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:53:41 +0100

By David Gurteen

Everyone loves Dilbert. Over the years there have been some gems relating to knowledge management, collaboration, knowledge sharing and the like.

So I thought I would start to dig them out and create a collection of Dilbert comic strips on KM that can be viewed through my media player. You may find a lot of other interesting stuff there too. Enjoy!

Here is one of my favourites from 1998 no less!

Dilbert on Knowledge Management

A 1998 Dilbert Comic Strip taking a poke at Knowledge Management. Unfortunately, that language "We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key leanings" is still only too common in KM circles.

You can view more Dilbert comic strips on KM through my media player.

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