What makes a good knowledge professional?

Some reflections on my experience at the Exploiting Knowledge and Information symposium held at Cranfield University on 1-2 October 2008. The event was sponsored by the UK Government’s Knowledge Council.
Given this was an event for senior civil servants I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised by the fact that most speakers spent a good [...]

Data Privacy and Security - closing the stable door?

I was recently asked to do a presentation on the topic of ‘Effective Information Management’ for a local government organisation. Part of the presentation covered data security and privacy, where I emphasise the the importance of policies and procedures created BY people FOR people. The point being that we already have the technology to ensure [...]

Definitions for Information Management and Knowledge Management

With a background in both Information Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM) disciplines, I’m often asked how they relate to each other, and what we actually mean by “IM” and “KM”.
Providing text book definitions does not help, because even these are clouded by jargon and tend to be verbose. I’ve therefore tried to construct a [...]

Information Evolution and Revolution


Forget digital preservation; it’s paper we need!


Robert Scoble interview: How to read 622 RSS feeds each day


On-line interaction and fear of the unknown


Blog policy


What good is IPSV?


New Guidance on use of Council Tax data


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