Posted on May 4, 2008 by bradhinton
I start my new full-time job at the Fred Hollows Foundation tomorrow. I will be in charge of the information, knowledge management and education unit of the organisation. I am really looking forward to working back in the NGO sector and in international development. It will also make my involvement in KM4dev and Society for [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2007 by bradhinton
I want to share five common mistakes in innovation that were recently presented in an article in BusinessWeek. It seems to me that they are just as applicable in the context of developing initiatives for knowledge management inside the firm, and knowledge diffusion between organisations.
1) An over-reliance on pilot initiatives - pilots tend to focus [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by bradhinton
The latest issue of the e-journal, Information Research, is now available.
There are some really interesting papers, especially the paper by Marcia Bates on browsing behaviour and the paper by Judit Bar-Ilan on librarian blogs.
There are several book reviews too, including this one on David Weinberger’s book, Everything is miscellaneous (a book I am currently reading).
All [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Books, Business, Information Management, Information use, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Libraries, Management, Marketing, Research, Searching, Tagging | No Comments »
Posted on August 21, 2007 by bradhinton
It’s been quite a week since I lasted posted. I have been confronted with some technical issues regarding web access and have been limited in the online time available to me. A wireless 3G account might have to be arranged…
Anyway, I can give some follow-up to a couple of activities from last week. Firstly, Patrick Lambe [...]
Filed under: Communication, Conference, Information Management, Knowledge Management, Management, Networks, Organisational behaviour, Presentations, Research, Social computing, Storytelling, Technology, Web | No Comments »
Posted on June 14, 2007 by bradhinton
I had a fruitful discussion a short while ago about librarians and web 2.0, and research and knowledge management. In the same vein, a recent post from Dave Pollard with a link to his presentation on “librarians as knowledge managers” posits some interesting thoughts. Pollard presented at the recent Special Libraries Association conference in Denver, Colorade, USA. In the [...]
Filed under: Communication, Education & learning, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Presentations, Research, Web | 5 Comments »
Posted on June 8, 2007 by bradhinton
I am sometimes asked whether or not research is actually one of the multitude of activities under the umbrella of knowledge management. The researcher undertakes primary or secondary research (or both) and thus contributes to the information and knowledge base. The researcher can even use the information (that has been sourced, evaluated and organised) to compose a written or [...]
Filed under: Communication, Content management, Knowledge Management, Records Management, Research | 4 Comments »
