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Knowledge Hub at OpenTech UK No comments yet

Posted on May 22, 2011 by stephendaleC8 in Knowledge Hub, Knowledge Management, Social Enterprise, Web2.0

I presented the Knowledge Hub at yesterday’s (21st May) OpenTech event. The following is a synopsis of the project; the slides are available for download from Slideshare and include notes. Previous blog posts on this topic:

http://steve-dale.net/2011/04/06/introduction-to-the-knowledge-hub/

http://steve-dale.net/2009/09/21/knowledge-hub-part-1/

http://steve-dale.net/2010/07/06/knowledge-hub-part-2/

http://steve-dale.net/2011/01/31/the-knowledge-hub-and-user-experience-ux-3/

http://steve-dale.net/2011/03/10/knowledge-hub-4-social-graph-and-activity-stream/

The Knowledge Hub (KHub) is a “Web 2” social media development that builds on the LG Improvement and Development Community of Practice initiative (www.communities.idea.gov.uk)  which, with over 85,000 registered users, is already the most advanced online practitioner group in the public sector.

Imagine the social networking aspects of Facebook , the recommendation element of websites such as Tripadvisor,  product and service comparisons similar to websites such as moneysupermarket.com, access to value-added ‘apps’ similar to the iPhone app store  and a serendipity engine to suggest useful content, like on-line retailer Amazon, and you’ll start to get some idea about what this innovative project will deliver.

The KHub’s matching engine will trawl through online and user-generated content and using semantic web techniques it will suggest communities, people and content you might like, utilising data from your user profile and your digital footprint (on-line activity).

As well as all this, the KHub will be an interactive information exchange where users collaborate online to solve problems, with facilities for uploading datasets, enabling users (e.g. councils) to compare and benchmark their performance.

Best of all, the KHub is being developed on an open platform, using open standards and will be published to the open source community under the GNU General Public License, hence this huge investment will be available for use and re-use by the open source community.

The KHub is being delivered by PFI Knowledge Solutions and is built on their innovative Intelligus platform.

The KHub is scheduled for Beta release later this month (May), with new features being added in a series of releases between May and October 2011. See the Local Government Group website for further details.

Knowledge Hub at OpenTech UK 21may11

Surviving and Thriving as a 21st Century Knowledge and Information Professional No comments yet

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Stephendale in Information Management, Knowledge Management, Social Networking Tools

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The above named article has been published in the most recent issue of Business Information Review. Regretably, under the terms of agreement I signed with the publishers (Sage), I’m not allowed to post the full article here. However, the following is an abstract, and many of the screen shots I used in the article can be found on my Slideshare presentation.

Abstract:

The volume of information continues to grow at an exponential rate; new products, social networks and web services appear almost daily. Government and public bodies are releasing more data for public scrutiny; companies are becoming more radical in the way they create and use information; global news and events reach us in near real time, 24/7. Professional and social networks proliferate. We are awash with data and information. This article describes five simple steps we can take and some of the tools we can use to become more effective in managing and using digital information and the social web for personal learning and development.

I hope that some of you will find this article helpful in equiping you with the tools and processes to better manage the daily information flood!

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