New look and new features for Communities of Practice website

As of today, new features and a new look for the IDeA Communities of Practice (CoP) platform. This is the first major new release for over 12 months, and brings a number of usability enhancements to the platform, which is provided as a free resource to staff working on local government throughout the UK.

New features [...]

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 [...]

Social Media and Knowledge Management Links for 2008-08-02

Links for 2008-08-02
Top 100 Brands in Social Media
Social media uptake is driven by an audience of early adopters. This group are primarily technology enthusiasts with a natural inclination to sharing information and insight. Google, Yahoo!, Apple and Microsoft take the top four spots respectively.
UK Government Committee Report on harmful content on Internet (PDF)

House of Commons’ [...]

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 [...]

Community of Practice Facilitator’s Peer Assist


Measuring the value of KM and Communities of Practice


Essential KM sites and blogs


Knowledge Management (KM) and Social Computing – are they the same?


Launch of Progress through Partnership


The Lurker to Contributor ratio


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