James in a wiki consultant, at CustomWare. Has been doing implementations and working with wikis for 3 years. About half of the audience have used a wiki. What’s a wiki (“an editable web page”), with some differences: – they are more social – the people are more important […]
With the conclusion of the first day of the Open Publish 2008 conference, at least 50% of the attendees headed to a local bar for a cocktail evening (thankfully, they had OJ). While there, I was involved in or observed some interesting conversations: James and John argued about […]
Alexander from Androgogic is talking about building a content management system into an educational technology architecture. Here’s the notes I was able to capture. Business drivers … – 79,000+ distance students – the introduction of new higher education initiatives. – distributed content creation. – content is reused across […]
I was supposed to be doing a presentation on The Changing Locus of Collaboration tomorrow afternoon at Open Publish, but when the keynote speaker #2 pulled out, I put my hand up (as though I didn’t have enough to do!). So … after Brett, I presented an expanded […]
Brett Jackson is presenting the first keynote of Open Publish. Key focus: how people work today, and how they might work in the future. On knowledge workers … people who work primarily with ideas and information, not their hands (Peter Drucker). An earlier example would be artisans. There […]
My three hour workshop on SharePoint for Collaboration at the Open Publish Conference is done. There were about 18 people in attendance, with some organizations having 2 people here, and others up to 5. There was a good mix of SharePoint experience, from those that are currently using […]
After being a tourist for a couple of hours in Sydney, I headed to an evening conversation on collaboration with about 14 members of the NSW Knowledge Management Roundtable. “The KMRT in New South Wales is a Knowledge Network that provides members with the opportunity to gain value […]
Last night I spoke to about 60 knowledge management professionals here in Melbourne (eg, see VPSCIN and Melbourne KMLF); they came from one of four groups here working in the knowledge management area. It was a great night … there was a real hum of conversation during the […]
Xythos Software is hosting a Webinar on August 5 at 10am US Pacific time entitled Is Green the new Black?” Sustaining Green initiatives with ECM. I am the industry analyst on the panel discussion. Here’s the focus of the discussion: “In recent years the number of organizations implementing […]
BrightStar is hosting the 8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit in Wellington on August 21 and 22, and I’m speaking! BrightStar has this to say about the conference: “Now in its eighth year, this event has built a reputation as New Zealand’s premier intranet summit, highly valuable in terms […]
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