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Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 39 - 25th August 2003 |
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The Gurteen Knowledge Letter is a monthly newsletter that is distributed to members of the Gurteen Knowledge Community. You may receive the Knowledge Letter by joining the community. Membership is totally free. You may read back-copies here. **** The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter (Issue 39, 25 August 2003) **** I am sure you will understand but as I leave for Seattle on Thursday, this months knowledge-letter (September) is not only a week early but a little shorter than usual. Nevertheless, I think some interesting little tidbits :=) *************************** Contents *************************** 1 - The Second Gurteen Knowledge Conference 2 - The Scholar's Courtesy 3 - KM Asia and KM Europe 4 - 10 Tips for Driving Innovation by Managing Knowledge 5 - The London Knowledge Café 6 - Future Trends 7 - Networking Tools 8 - Seattle Meeting 9 - Knowledge City 10 - Small World Project ************ The Second Gurteen Knowledge Conference ************ Registration is now open for the "Second Gurteen Knowledge Conference - knowledge, communities and networks" that will be held London on Wednesday 26th November. Knowledge consultant, Denham Grey's, view that: "Knowledge is embodied in people gathered in communities and networks. The road to knowledge is via people, conversations, connections and relationships. Knowledge surfaces through dialog, all knowledge is socially mediated and access to knowledge is by connecting to people that know or know who to contact." is the foundation for the day. With this understanding of knowledge in mind, the conference will teach you about networking, building communities, having meaningful conversations and running knowledge cafés. The conference will be highly interactive and participatory with plenty of time for networking and learning from each other. Although I say it myself, I think I have a great line up: Mick Cope, Victoria Ward, Elizabeth Lank, Adrian Hosford and of course myself. The Second Gurteen Knowledge Conference: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X005BDC22?open&r=3&p=0 ******************** The Scholar's Courtesy ******************** Although I think I do a good job of acknowledging the sources of my ideas I can sometime be a little lazy, especially if the ideas are not in "print". This little story encourages me to 'religiously' acknowledge my sources. I hope it does you too! The Scholar's Courtesy: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000609C6?open&r=3&p=0 ********************* KM Asia and KM Europe ********************* KM Asia will be held on 4 - 6 November in Singapore. KM Europe in Amsterdam on 10 -12 November. Lots more information now posted on their respective websites. I'll be running knowledge cafés at both. KM Asia 2003 http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000ADBC2?open&r=3&p=0 KM Europe 2003 http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000E06F2?open&r=3&p=0 ***** 10 Tips for Driving Innovation by Managing Knowledge ***** The American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) have recently published "10 Tips for Driving Innovation by Managing Knowledge" excerpted from a report "Using Knowledge Management to Drive Innovation Best-Practice" Here are the first three tips: 1. Use knowledge management (KM) to become more efficient innovators. Access to information, ideas, and experience enables individuals and teams to devote time to build on good ideas and incorporate them into innovative products and processes. Efficient innovation does not imply less creativity, nor less need for the human and social capital aspects of KM. 2. Leverage content management systems, portals, and other information technology (IT) systems effectively. They are central to how innovation happens. IT applications can enable virtual work, distributed teams, and access to content by various players. 3. Reuse knowledge. Best-practice partners overcome reticence to reuse knowledge by facilitating diverse teams, making experts available to explain how an earlier invention can be used in a new setting, rewarding for reuse, and storytelling about knowledge sharing success. http://www.apqc.org/portal/apqc/site/content?docid=112301 ******************* The London Knowledge Café ******************* The London Knowledge Café is still alive and well - its just taking a rest over the summer like you I hope :-) I plan for things to start up again in the autumn. New members are always welcome. Knowledge Café home page: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0024749E?open&p=0 Next Knowledge Cafe - Thursday 9 Oct 2003 http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0005F9AA?open&r=3&p=0 ************************* Future Trends ************************* As "knowledge workers" I feel we spend far too little time thinking about the future and its impact on our working lives, even the very near future, such as a year or two away and I am always on the look-out for resources. Here is a collection of interesting essays on trends that I recently came across. http://www.herman.net/archive.html Future resources: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000B1F5E?open&r=3&p=0 *********************** Networking Tools *********************** Srba Cvetkovic pointed me to an interesting technology gizmo to support personal networking among participants at conferences and other events. It is an interactive name badge or wearable computer called an nTAG. http://www.ntag.com ************************ Seattle Meeting ************************ Well it looks as if I have about 12 people for my network meeting in Seattle. If you can make it come along : 7:00pm on Thursday 4th September at Spazzo - central Bellevue, top of Key bank building on 4th St. Seattle: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00241FA2?open&r=3&p=0 ************************ Knowledge City ************************ Learn a little more about the concept of a "Knowledge City". The Knowledge City: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00060A9E?open&r=3&p=0 ********************** Small World Project ********************** The Small World Project is an online experiment being conducted by a team at Columbia University to test the idea that any two people in the world can be connected via "six degrees of separation". http://smallworld.columbia.edu/index.html ***************** The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter ***************** The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based knowledge management newsletter for Knowledge Workers. Its purpose is to help you better manage your knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as Knowledge Management, Learning, Creativity and the effective use of Internet technology. It is produced in association with the Knowledge Management Forum of Henley Management College, Oxfordshire, England (http://www.henleymc.ac.uk/kmforum) You may copy, reprint or forward all or part of this newsletter to friends, colleagues or customers, so long as any use is not for resale or profit and the following copyright notice is included intact: "Copyright 2003, David Gurteen, All rights reserved." David Gurteen Gurteen Associates Fleet, United Kingdom
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