http://kmforum.org/blog A Community of Practice - Learning and Working in the Knowledge Management Community Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the announcement for the annual FALL MEETING of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing (NEASI), Oct. 16, Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Massachusetts. Speakers: Enid Zafran, “Polishing the Index” and Heather Hedden: "From Indexer to Accidental Taxonomist.” http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=785 Friday, September 3, 2010 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. TOPIC:  Companies with software, medical institutions, insurance and health care providers, and physicians all seem to be chiming in with calls for a universal standard for sharing electronic records. Add to this the frustration of ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=778 Thursday, August 19, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. SPEAKER: Margi Olson, Principal Consultant, Mansys Consulting TOPIC: World Vision is a global Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with 40,000 employees operating in 90 countries worldwide.  Their superordinate goal is “building a better world ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=751 Friday, August 6, 2010 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. TOPIC: In July the group exchanged stories of our own knowledge sharing (or not) in business situations. It was a terrific session and very interesting. The topic for August will build on the possibilities for ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=744 Thursday, July 15, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. SPEAKER: Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, College of Management, Univ. of Mass, Boston TOPIC: While knowledge management has been popular among US companies, Chinese companies have not practiced it until recently. In this ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=735 Friday, July 2, at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. TOPIC: "Bad Stuff" keeps happening. Previous BP CEO, John Browne, was a knowledge sharing champion. Any number of large and prestigious multinational corporations and major institutions have experienced one or more catastrophic events in the past ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=730 June 30, 2010 6:30 - 9:00 PM Waltham, MA (free but registration is required) Celebrate the kick-off of a new healthcare technology group Find out how this new workgroup can support your role in healthcare innovation And a special update on leveraging two key aspects of healthcare reform and funding Boston KM ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=725 Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization by Mary Adams and Mike Oleksak, two members of the Boston KM Forum. Mary and Mike gave use a terrific presentation a couple of years ago and we highly recommend that you check this new publication out. Their thought leadership on ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=721 Thursday, June 17, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. SPEAKER: Matt Moore, Innotecture, Director TOPIC: Senior managers in organizations say they want to do things better – whether they call it learning or innovation or continuous improvement. Movements such as Performance ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=712 Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. TOPIC:   Business Users Want an Enterprise Equivalent to Facebook. What are the knowledge sharing attributes and features that make it so appealing in a work domain? We hear from IT departments, consultants and analysts that workgroups ... http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=710