Archive for February, 2008

Who Should be the Business Owner of KM Initiatives?

Published by lynda on February 18, 2008 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 0 Comments

Friday, March 7, 2008 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

Recent participation in Boston KM Forum meetings by people from Partners Healthcare, including a presentation by Cathyann Harris, highlight the fact that KM initiatives exist in many areas of organization and have different business drivers, depending on everything from specific outcomes sought to the background of those leading the effort.

You can share your own experiences participating in successful or failed KM initiatives in your work experiences. Join the discussion to share or ask others where they find good partners for bringing KM into focus with successful outcomes. We want participants to share how people or processes can block good outcomes, and enlighten us about what they see as warning signs that the owner of the initiative and the project might not be well suited. Finally, we’ll talk about how to solicit a good business owner for KM and how to build a team that can make a difference.

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Semantic Web - Ripe for Commercialization?

Published by lynda on February 17, 2008 in Other Organizations Meetings. 0 Comments

Communications/Networking - Spinning the Semantic Web. Details
Meeting Location: Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance), Waltham, MA

Meeting Time: February 19th, 6:30 - 9:30 pm

 

Meeting Cost: $25 public, $10 students and active military
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The concept of the Semantic Web was first introduced almost a decade ago by academicians such as Tim Berners-Lee of MIT and Ken Baclawski of Northeastern University. Their vision was search technologies that would improve retrieval both on the Internet and within the enterprise, particularly in vertical domains such as the life sciences, financial services and telecom. While the technical community has embraced the importance of improving search based on concepts, meaning and topical relationships, keyword searching and navigation of web sites using hierarchical taxonomies are still the norm on the Internet. Even as top search vendors enrich their search engines to improve the relevancy of retrieved content, among the leaders Google, Yahoo/IBM, FAST, and Autonomy, none are yet noted for a terrific semantic search experience on the Web or in the enterprise. Are there technical barriers or is a poor business model the reason for slow commercialization?

At this EntreTech Forum session, we will delve into the status of the Semantic Web

Keynote Speakers:

Kenneth Baclawski – Associate Professor, Northeastern University
 Mieczyslaw M. Kokar – Professor, Northeastern University

Moderator:

Lynda Moulton – Analyst, Semantic Web and Enterprise Search - Gilbane Group

Panelists:

Stephen Walsh – VP Sales and Marketing, Easy Ask
Adam Jackson – Senior Associate, Argo Global Partners
 Jeff Catlin – CEO, Lexalytics
 Brandy King – Information Specialist, Children’s Hospital

Managing Virtual Teams for Real Results

Published by lynda on February 5, 2008 in Other Organizations Meetings. 0 Comments

A meeting sponsored by the Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA), Boston Chapter. Rebecca’s Cafe Burlington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6 - 9 pm. $30 (pre-paid) or $40 (at the door). Check IMC box on registration to receive $10 discount as a Boston KM Forum member. Details and registration at www.icca-boston.org

Speaker: Rick Brenner, of Chaco Canyon Consulting

  • Are you a consultant working remotely from your clients?
  • Are you a manager working with team members who are geographically disbursed?
  • Are you a member of a geographically disbursed team?

If you’ve had any of these experiences, you know that Virtual Teams are now officially the way of things. Everything about such projects or operations is more difficult than face-to-face teams — including figuring out how to declare victory when failure is what actually happened.