Barcelona, 21st September 2011
The Department of Justice in Spain have embraced the concept of online Communities of Practice (CoPs) to support more effective knowledge sharing. The e-moderator (or Facilitator or Community Manager) is increasingly recognised as playing a key role in the nurture and growth of these communities, acting as an agent for the sharing [...]
UNICOM Seminar, 19th October 2011, London.
I will be speaking on the following topic:
The information profession has learnt to deal with change, but change is happening with ever- increasing velocity bringing new challenges and opportunities for both information professionals and information consumers. Big data, the cloud, the transition to mobile working, analytics, apps, open and [...]
The Online Information Conference is scheduled to run from 30th November to 2nd December. This is my first year as Conference Chairman, so mixed feeelings at present of anticipation and trepidation! The following is a pre-conference interview I gave to Knowledgespeak.
1. Can you briefly talk about the Online Information? Also, can you [...]
I will be presenting on the Knowledge Hub at the forthcoming International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO-UK) event on 14th September 2010.
The The Knowledge Hub is essentially the next generation development of the highly successful local government CoP platform (a previous project of mine). It will replace the existing infrastructure with new open technology facilitating [...]
I’m looking for to attending the Online Information Conference next week, which runs from 1-3 December at the Olympia. The schedule for the three days can be found on the Online Information website. There are some great speakers lined up, including Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, who will be doing a keynote presentation on Thursday [...]
I am privileged to have been asked to do a keynote presentation at the forthcoming Public Health Information Network (PHIN) conference being held in Atlanta, Georgia between 31st August and 3rd September 2009.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who are sponsoring the event, have been instrumental in the development of PHIN Communities of [...]
I will be presenting at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York on 12th/13th May 2009. My session is on Tuesday 12th, entitled Social Search for Knowledge Sharing and will cover the innovative use of a search vendor’s Application Programming Interface (API) to support a personalised web search facility for members of a Community of [...]
For those who may have missed it in the Online Info Brochure, I will be doing a brief session on Thursday 4th December, 13.45 - 14.15 in Theatre A on Communities of Practice, and specifically how Web 2.0 technologies and processes have been used to support the development of virtual CoPs across the local government [...]
I will be facilitating one of the sessions at the Public Sector ICT 2008 event scheduled for 4-5 November 2008. Details of the event from the organiser’s flyer:
A two-day retreat dedicated to powering government modernisation through technology.
Public Sector ICT (PSICT 2008) is an exclusive event designed to help government decision-makers harness technology to generate [...]
I will be presenting at the LGC sponsored “Fundamentals of Information Management” Conference tomorrow. 17th June 2008. The presentation will cover:
What is effective information and knowledge management?
Understanding the role of data and information throughout your organisation and partnerships
Identifying what information you need to capture and why
How to access, use and share the different types of [...]
