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[Transcript] Connecting Knowledge Management Communities
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
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| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | [Moderator] Hi! Welcome to today's chat on Connecting Knowledge Management Communities. Please introduce yourselves! Join by using: #KMers |
| weknowmore | weknowmore | RT @kmerschat: [Moderator] Hi! Welcome to today's chat on Connecting Knowledge Management Communities. Please introduce yourselves! Join ... |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | [moderator] We would like to discuss knowledge management communities. Which exist and how could we get some synergy between them? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | [moderator] Q1 What knowledge management (discussion) communities are you active in? Which others do you know? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | [moderator] ...Twitter is down sometimes here today. Hope this will not affect the chat. #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | A1: See the list of #KM communities at http://t.co/GM5t0OHG #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @stangarfield Wow what a great exhaustive list! It seems that we're done for today then ;-) #KMers |
| richardjmartin | Richard Martin | A1. There are many - too many - KM discussion groups on LinkedIn. It makes it difficult to know which one to be active in #KMers |
| deantesta | deantesta | #KMers ... KMEF, SIKM Leaders & KM Edge |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @richardjmartin Yes, I have the same problem. Did you ever contribute to one of these groups? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @deantesta Thanks for contributing! Are you active in these communities yourself? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | A1. about 20-odd, I use Gurteen's groups mostly, and LinkedIn more than any other platform to get to them #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | Community for leaders of local KM communities only - LinkedIn Group http://t.co/ClV020UD - hold quarterly calls #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | A1b I am most active in non-KM groups like HR, IC, Finance, & Applied Psychology. Carrying the message to other terrains #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Thanks for your reaction! A crazy number really... Would it be possible to have some sort of merger between all of them? #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | I suggest SIKM Leaders http://t.co/9IEnWI2c (global, virtual, monthly calls) and a local CoP if available #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | Probably the group leaders like their 'status' and would not be eager to give it up by merging groups... #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @kmerschat I wish we could reduce the number, but some degree of specialization is inevitable and necessary #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @stangarfield Thanks Stan! Great communities you are sharing! #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | [mod] Let's get to the main point of the chat: Q2 How could we get more sharing between communities? How could we bridge the islands? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | A2 the same way we deal with silos in orgs - invite gueast speakers, take on joint projects, identify superordinal research questions #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Agree on your point of specialization. But a lot of the groups seem pretty general to me... #KMers |
| richardjmartin | Richard Martin | A1(b). Most active in a leadership LinkedIn group. Interested in role leadership has to play in KM initiatives #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @kmerschat so maybe we need a "mothership" group that spreads research projects amongst them ;) #KMers |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | @stangarfield I think there are many other more specific communities out there, too. E.g., several search-related groups on LinkedIn #kmers |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | @stangarfield So while your list is already larger and you do include some specialized groups, there are many more still to count #kmers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Hehe, yes the 'almighty super mothership'. I like it! #KMers |
| intldogooder | How Matters | Great new post by @alanna_shaikh "Circus, circus" http://t.co/HoRA8crr #globaldev #aid #kmers @admitfailure |
| deantesta | deantesta | @kmerschat ... KMEF yes - just joined SIKM - the group in LinkedIn I am more a lurker #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | Maybe some sort of discussion aggregator that pulls in content from the different discussion groups, which is easy to navigate? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @deantesta Where would communities be without lurkers :-) #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | @pekadad It is impossible to keep up with all the LinkedIn Groups #KMers |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | This discussion reminds me of two things: 1) Our internal discussion (within Deloitte) about whether communities should be managed #kmers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | We are knowledge managers. If we aren't able to connect our communities, who can? #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | Post by @DavidGurteen The mess of Knowledge Management groups on LinkedIn http://t.co/uvejBP1y #KMers |
| whydev | whydev.org | RT @intldogooder: Great new post by @alanna_shaikh "Circus, circus" http://t.co/Sx1oTyol #globaldev #aid #kmers @admitfailure |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | And, 2) how broad the spectrum is of KM as a domain (reference Stan's work on "KM Specializations" - though I can't find a link) #kmers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @pekadad "slightly managed" perhaps. Too important just to be left to Darwinian forces, but too fragile to use Theory X #KMers |
| moniqueysmit | Monique Smit | But this discussion aggragator needs to be automatized, because there is no way we have time to do it ourselves. It's a good idea #kmers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | @pekadad 25 KM Specialties http://t.co/smVbf13I #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @kmerschat a good aggregator is twitter imo - we could settle on a taxonomy of hashtags to alert each other etc. #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | The KM Community Leaders http://t.co/ClV020UD is an attempt to coordinate all local KM communities #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | Getting communities to merge is very difficult - it's easier to encourage cooperation before a new one is created than after. #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | Biomimicry - cells push out a sample of what they are manufacturing, we could do something similar #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @moniqueysmit That's true. Problem of that might be that the amount of information is so enormous that navigating becomes impossible #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | +1 Nice initiative! RT @stangarfield: The KM Community Leaders http://t.co/TnRNg40v is an attempt to coordinate local KM communities #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Maybe by having weekly/monthly digest overviews or something like LinkedIn has #KMers |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | @stangarfield re: merging communities - very true. But encouraging cooperation can also be a challenge. "All communities are local" #kmers |
| moniqueysmit | Monique Smit | @kmerschat Well, when the computer can't do it anymore.... #kmers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | @pekadad Yes, this is where leverage helps: I won't create that new site unless you work with your colleague from across the world #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @moniqueysmit I wonder how open groups are for their knowledge to be 'sucked out' by automated mechanisms. Does LinkedIn provide RSS? #KMers |
| moniqueysmit | Monique Smit | Don't you think it's also in the interest of publishers and IT companies to stimulate the idea that everybody needs their own system? #kmers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @moniqueysmit Again just thinking out loud. I'm afraid I have no answers myself ;-) #KMers |
| pekadad | Lee Romero | @stangarfield which can work (but doesn't always) inside the firewall but for this discussion, I don't think anyone can control that #kmers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | Post by @ianwooler Knowledge Management groups on LinkedIn – an update http://t.co/lfG4oSVH #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | @pekadad Right, so survival of the fittest is the way it works out in public #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | How about leveraging one of the existing KM journals for integrating groups? - they have sites, RSS, etc #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | RT @stangarfield: Post by @ianwooler Knowledge Management groups on LinkedIn – an update http://t.co/mHrMAOEV #KMers |
| stangarfield | Stan Garfield | @mloxton There are also a lot of KM journals http://t.co/knanmbcc #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @moniqueysmit Good point! I think this surely plays a role. And the mechanism of reputation the group leaders get for leading a group #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | RT @stangarfield: @mloxton There are also a lot of KM journals http://t.co/xrgPzbTs #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Good idea! But would any of them be willing to invest in such a thing? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @stangarfield bah! Quite a list, perhaps we can approach a few and see who gives us the best platform? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Maybe we could start the FPDKMK or the "Foundation for the Preservation and Dissemination of Knowledge Management Knowledge" #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @kmerschat out of that list probably at least one or two might pony up effort and space, all we can do is ask :) #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | RT @mloxton: Biomimicry - cells push out a sample of what they are manufacturing, we could do something similar #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @kmerschat blimey, never heard of them, but sure, let's approach them with some ideas. Likewise the JKMR&P #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton You probably never heard of them because I just made up that name myself ;-) #KMers |
| pbernardon | pbernardon | RT @kmerschat: Maybe some sort of discussion aggregator that pulls in content from the different discussion groups, which is easy to nav ... |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Could be the mothership/the KM super cluster. No, sticking with an organization that already exists might be more productive #KMers |
| pbernardon | pbernardon | RT @kmerschat: We are knowledge managers. If we aren't able to connect our communities, who can? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | "The Hive", or are we more like the Borg Collective? #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | RT @mloxton: "The Hive", or are we more like the Borg Collective? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton Hehe yes, let's plug a computer in our brains already and get it over with. A knowledge manager's dream come through! #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | What would a space that encourages community connection look like? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | "I am from the Head Office Hive, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile" and "all ur Knowledge Base are belong to us" #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @mloxton lol yes, with special KM outfits, greeting and everything #KMers |
| CommAMMO | Sean Williams | team spaces, private spaces, open spaces. RT @4km: What would a space that encourages community connection look like? #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @4KM it would look like an African Savannah with a curving road in the distance, woods in the middle, and evidence of water #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | I don't know about you all, but I am getting excited by this idea of connecting. But no real easy answers unfortunately... #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | RT @mloxton: @4KM it would look like an African Savannah with a curving road in the distance woods in the middle & evidence of water #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | Probably a library with water, food, plants, lots of whiteboards, good internet, but places where you can talk and laugh #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | @mloxton Like it. First idea-African Savannah. Possibility of "sexy megafauna" as we say in biology. What might those be? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | Seems like there is some more thinking ahead to get such a big ball rolling... #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | @mloxton Curving road implies choices; efficiency isn't being imposed, opportunities to look around at different communities? #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @4KM "Sexy Megafauna" -> The killer name we were looking for ;-) #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | @mloxton Your idea of water suggests the need to reassure people. Survival isn't threatened; it's about exploration and learning #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | Ok I hereby officially close the chat (this doesn't mean you'll have to stop sharing of course :-) Hope to discuss more about this! #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | @kmerschat Way simpler to raise $ for white spirit bears or grizzlies than salamanders or flies. But they are saved in the process #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | Sorry to be late; horse and book proposal took priority this morning #KMers |
| kmerschat | #KMers Chat | @4KM Despite being 'late' you made some great contributions! Thanks for that! #KMers |
| 4KM | Alice MacGillivray | @mloxton It was fun to play; think the #KM metaphors you contributed have potential for followup #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | @4KM Thanks Alice, and not sure if the Sexy Megafauna are the librarians, us, or nice ideas on a huge whiteboard ;) #KMers |
| mloxton | Matthew Loxton | There is a lot to be said for work environments that mimic the evo-typical for our species - just bio-mimicry writ large #KMers |
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