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The chat of last Tuesday didn't go exactly as planned because of a little communication hickup. We should have briefed our moderator of the day better, who is certainly not to blame. We apologize for this inconvenience, and for the future we'll be sure to have a proper preparation and explanation to all chat moderators. Read more »

Our development team has been hard at work to improve the KMers experience. One of our goals is to be able to easily crowdsource topics so that the community gets to decide what topics are covered each week. Read more »

In order to fight spam on KMers.org, we have installed a new log in module. For you, as a user, everything should look exactly the same. However, on the background a number of things have changed.

If for some reason, you experience any problems with logging in, please let us know as soon as possible!

Contact @kmerschat if you have any questions or comments!

Original post here: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/KM-for-KMers-66523.aspx

Last November at the KMWorld Conference in San Jose, a new community was born. While most online communities require e-mail reminders to keep members informed of recent activity, KMers works exclusively through Twitter. Read more »

KMers.org was down for the last 6 hours due to a planned maintenance session. We are happy to inform you that the entire system has successfully been updated for increased security and performance!

So far, everything looks to be working fine. If, however, you find something broken or missing, please contact us!

We have just moved KMers.org to a new server environment that better supports our needs. We are also in the process of implementing some new features on the website and we're streamlining some other processes. This means that we will have to take the site down from time to time to add those features to the website. Please bear with us during this process in the coming weeks. Read more »

Below is the text that I provided for Hugh McKellar about KMers

Last November at the KMWorld conference in San Jose a new community was born. While most online communities require email reminders to keep members informed of recent activity, KMers works exclusively through Twitter. It helps to answer the question, “why should I use twitter”. Read more »

Last week on KMers chat we talked about the possibility of a KMers remote workgroup. Lots of great ideas for a worthy topic were brainstormed and they have been captured in this poll: http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2595909/

If we get enough interest in any particular project, we will use KMers to help get it started. Read more »

We are working hard right now to develop a schedule of chats out at least a month in advance. We feel that this will

• make #KMers more predictable/schedulable
• give chatters a chance to attend the topics they find most interesting
• provide more exposure for the moderators
• encourage blogging and comments leading up to each chat

One of the founding sponsors of KMers is the Knowledge Management Institute. As such, their members will receive information about the KMers chats in their periodic member emails. We welcome everyone to these chats and hope that you find them a valuable tool in your search for KM information and connections. Read more »

There is a call for presentation proposals at Knowledge Management 2010. We have submitted KMers as a case study in how to build a social media driven community. http://bit.ly/75SEEY

We believe that it will be great exposure for our community and will be an excellent example to show how some of the recent social media tools relate to community building. Read more »

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported KMers in our very early days. There have already been some great chats and there is so much more to come. Read more »

KMers has some governance to help it run smoothly. The leadership team meets once a month and has drafted the following objectives/metrics for the community. We would love to have some feedback from the community itself on what our objectives should be. Note: ping me on @swanwick, if you don't want your comment to be publicly posted

Objectives Read more »

We want to apologize to the people that tried to log in during the last few days. Some log in requests were blocked due to authorization issues. Read more »

The KMers.org site was ready for beta launch last week in time for the KMWorld09 conference. Yesterday we launched the weekly #KMers twitter chat. I would guesstimate that we had about 15-20 people contributing to the Twitter Chat which means we probably had that number again of lurkers. Read more »