On breakfast, lunch, and tea

There are a number of ways in which information and knowledge can be disseminated and exchanged, including breakfast, lunchtime or evening meetings. These meetings can be internally or externally based. Organisations, like the Society for Organisational Learning Australia (SOLA) for example, have run morning information sessions for members featuring a special guest speaker. I first heard Dave [...]

On conferences and good experiences

I love attending good conferences. I love thinking about ideas and discussing them with interesting people. I love networking with people and connecting up with them after the conference is over. I love refining my thoughts and my notes on the way home.
And so it is with this in mind, albeit without a budget to attend, [...]

On SXSW 2008

I am really disappointed that I wasn’t able to get to Austin, Texas, this year to attend SXSW Interactive. I will get there one day (I hope) but in the meantime we are fortunate that the organisers provide podcasts of the presentations and discussions.
Check out this interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame - some [...]

On tagging, the grey side

My last two posts have been about tagging based on my presentation last week at the conference in Sydney, ”Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance”.
I want to look at some of the perceived disadvantages of tagging that I briefly mentioned in my presentation:

Lack of specificity - refers to the fact that an item can have [...]

On the positive side of tagging

In the light of what I discussed yesterday with respect to my conference presentation on Tuesday, I want to move on to tagging. Tagging is essentially unstructured metadata that is assigned by the content creator and the readers/users of the content, the latter called collaborative tagging. The user-generated classification that emerges is called a folksonomy.
Examples of digital content using [...]

On search and tagging

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the Ark Group conference, “Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance”, in Sydney. The presentation, called “Tagging and the enterprise”,  is available to conference attendees and I am rejigging some of the slides to load up onto Slideshare.
There were two key points I tried to emphasise yesterday in a conference [...]

On internal communication

Continuing my unplanned theme on communication types, I wanted to make a couple of comments about the importance of internal communications.
The responsibility for internal communication often sits with Marketing, a position that invokes the spectre of PR and political spin. In other cases, internal communication is expected just to happen, miraculously, without much thought, planning, or quality [...]

On back in touch

I am back from some time away on the coast soaking up the sun and waves. What has been most apparent has been my itching to get my computer and go online to get back in touch with my favourite blogs and people! Not having a computer and not reading/seeing any news media on my holiday has [...]

On content convergence and integration

It’s December and time for a quick conference alert (who knows what Santa might bring!) - Content Convergence and Integration 2008 will be held in in Vancouver, Canada, on 12-14 March. The conference topics include:
Social media and customer communications
New technologies for a new day
Mobile information
Planning for a world of social media
Digital assets and copyright
DAM Case study in [...]

On Facebook security loophole

There is a newspaper article today about a Facebook security loophole warning. Well, I read the article and it was all very lame, unless of course you don’t have any common sense.
The “loophole” is nothing more than opening your profile up (or having a friend in your personal network open up the profile) to the [...]

On actKM Conference 2007

Yesterday I attended day two of the actKM conference in Canberra. The day was full of thoughtful speakers and enjoyable conversation. The venue was in an unpretentious room located in the lovely grounds of University House at the Australian National University.
David Gurteen opened the morning session with an overview of a range of social networking tools and technologies. David emphasised [...]

On David Gurteen

David Gurteen will be visiting Australia shortly to present at the actKM conference next week in Canberra (among other things). David will also be running his knowledge cafe at the NSW KM Forum meeting in Sydney on Thursday evening, 25th October.
Having met David previously (in England) and experienced his knowledge cafe last year with local representative Helen Paige, the coming [...]

On 6th Annual Identity Management Forum

Just a quick conference alert to the 6th Annual Identity Management Forum to be held in Sydney, 28-30 November 2007. And a disclaimer - I do not receive advertising fees for my conference alerts!

On tailoring content in the world of Web 2.0

I gave my talk and presentation yesterday in Sydney at the Ark Group conference, Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0. My topic was on “tailoring content for Web 2.0″. The focus was on setting the scene for content within a Web 2.0 world (blogs, online collaboration, podcasting, wikis, and social networking) within the enterprise. Instead of [...]

On collaboration in the world of web 2.0

I will be speaking this coming Thursday at the Ark Group conference, Collaboration in the world of Web 2.0.
If there are any of you in blogland reading this post and attending this conference, please make yourself known to me on Thursday!
I intend to have a short write-up for this blog after the conference, so stay tuned.