E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

Follow up!: Social Network Tools and Their Business Application: Blogs, Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis – London – September 2006

If you would remember, a few weeks back I created a weblog post over here where I was mentioning a very interesting conference event that would be taking place later on this year in September in London around the subject of Social Network Tools and Their Business Application: Blogs, Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis. Back then I mentioned how that event would be something that I would be really looking forward to and will try to see if I can make it although I still cannot confirm if I would be there or not. Either way, earlier on today I receive an e-mail from Julie, one of the organisers of the event, where she pointed me to the actual agenda they have put together for the two days conference. And I must say that I am impressed. Very impressed.

You would be able to download the brochure from here, if you would want to read some more about it, but by the looks of it the list of speakers is very good. I have gone through the listing of the different sessions and there are some of them out there that I would certainly be looking forward to. Like, for instance:

• Euan Semple’s "The Quiet Revolution – how social computing will change the workplace"
• Lee Bryant’s "Informal Knowledge Sharing with Social Networking"
• Duncan Brown’s "The Influence of Social Network Technologies: Who’s Influencing Whom?"
• John Davies’ "Combining Wikis & the Semantic Web: towards Web3.0?"
• Lloyd Davis’ "Creating an In-House (Social) Media Empire"
• Stowe Boyd‘s "Social Media: Blogs and Participatory Culture"
• James Lappin’s "Social Bookmarking Inside the Organisation: connecting people to people and to information"
• Karen Eden’s "The bottom line: What’s in it for me?"

That sounds like a pretty packed up event, right? It surely does, but as you will be able to see it would certainly be worth while attending the event. Even more so since I have also noticed that one of my IBM fellow colleagues, Ian McNairn, will also be speaking on the subject "What is IBM doing with Web 2.0 tools, Concepts and Mash-Ups and Why?" to probably discuss and mention some of the different IBM Web 2.0 tools that I have been touching base on over here in the last few months. So I would be able to catch up with him again since last time we met each other was back in 2003, at an IBM Knowledge Management conference.

As I said, I am not sure just yet if I would be able to make it or not but one thing for sure is that if I manage to make it I will certainly be looking forward to it. Lots of great speakers, lots of great topics to cover, a packed up agenda and on top of that, London, one of my favourite cities. Can it get better than that ? I doubt it. Will you be there?

Tags: Unicom, David Gurteen, Euan Semple, Stowe Boyd, Knowledge Management, KM, KM 2.0, Social Networks, Social Software, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Wikis, Weblogs, Podcasts, RSS, Instant Messaging

Cognitive Edge – Getting Started

Here is a relatively new weblog that has just been grabbing some more momentum lately and which I am sure plenty of folks out there would be interested in following up further, specially if you are into sensemaking, storytelling, narrative and Knowledge Management in general, amongst other things. Indeed, it looks like the good old Cynefin center is now a thing of the past and its successor, Cognitive Edge, has just been launched. The great thing about all this is that Dave Snowden has already gotten started with the first initial weblog post where he is detailing what Cognitive Edge will be up to over the next few months and how you can engage in the different conversations with them. By the looks of it, Dave is actually going to make use of a weblog to share his thoughts and engage with the rest of the readership through the usual comments. To get things started he is actually suggesting three other worth while reading weblogs related to Knowledge Management that you should all be familiar with as well. I have been subscribed to them myself for quite some time now and I certainly agree with Dave’s comments that they are all worth while subscribing to. Here they are in case you may not be aware of them:

• Euan Semple‘s The Obvious?
• Shawn, Mark and Andrew‘s Anecdote
• And, finally, Patrick Lambe‘s Green Chameleon

Thus I guess that makes four different weblogs to be added to your OPML file(s), in case you haven’t done it already and continue reading some more on other different KM perspectives. But that is not all of it because Dave did also mention that very shortly they will be setting up a wiki and a discussion group along with the availability of a new course schedule. Thus it looks like things are starting to get busier with Cognitive Edge and it would certainly be worth while following it up.

Welcome to the other side of the blogosphere, Dave !

Tags: Cognitive Edge, Dave Snowden, The Obvious, Euan Semple, Anecdote, Green Chameleon, Knowledge Management, KM, Sensemaking, Narrative, Storytelling

Join Anecdote and Make a Difference

Arrrrgghhhh! I really feel some healthy envy for the folks down under in Australia, specially in Canberra and Melbourne, after reading this over at Anecdote. It looks like Shawn, Mark and Andrew are looking for someone that could join Anecdote from either of those places and while reading through the description it does sound like an interesting and exciting job, wouldn’t you think so ? I know that there are a few folks here in elsua who come from that particular area thus if you think you would be ready for a change, for the better, I am sure, I would strongly suggest you take a look into the application itself and go for it.

I know if I would have been around I would have definitely sent out the application. I have met Shawn a couple of times when he was working in IBM, and while attending a number of different Knowledge Management conferences, and he is certainly one of those folks that would make you think about things in a different way and always with a twist. Great fun to work with and someone who knows a lot about CoPs and related subjects, including Knowledge Management, of course. I am sure it would be equally fun to work with Mark and Andrew. Sigh. I guess it will have to be at another time …

Anyway, since they were asking to pass the message along, here it is. Go and check out the weblog post Join Anecdote and Make a Difference and if you feel you are suitable for the job and want to try making a difference, a big difference actually, by all means go for it !

Best of luck to all of the job applicants !

Tags: Anecdote, Sensemaking, Storytelling, CoPs, Communties of Practice, Knowledge Management, KM, SNA, Social Network Analysis, Jobs