Archive for October, 2009

SLA. Boston Chapter Meeting: Ontologies for Knowledge Mapping and Discovery

Published by lynda on October 27, 2009 in Non-KM Forum Events Posting. 0 Comments

The Boston Chapter of SLA is featuring Brandy King, a member and past speaker at the Boston KM Forum, speaking on Knowledge Mapping and Ontologies.

When: Tuesday, November 17, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Where: Social Law Library — John Adams Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Suite 4100, Boston

Details: http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/slaboston/2009/10/sla-boston-program—november-17.html

Costs: SLA/SCIP/ASIST Members - $20; Non-Member - $25

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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=LDLvOKtuYbnzlYBgt4EDlw_3d_3d

Questions: Please send any questions about the program to Kris Liberman at k.liberman@verizon.net  — thanks!

Social Networking Technologies - Challenges for Product Development & Effective Integration into the Enterprise

Published by lynda on October 23, 2009 in Thursday Afternoon Meetings. 0 Comments

Thursday, November 19, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. 

SPEAKER: Chris Poulin, Managing Partner, Patterns and Predictions

TOPIC: The deep integration of social networking tools is deceptively complex to execute well. Effective incorporation into products requires a clear integration strategy. At the same time, incorporating social networking into enterprise IT operations has its own internal challenges.

A recent case study of  a Fortune 500 client’s needs will describe our proposed solution set,  the integration challenges, and lessons learned. The knowledge gained will be carried over to a discussion of a new cutting-edge analytics project (under development), that illustrates the unique challenges of designing high performance social networks. Finally, the discussion will conclude with specific recommendations for those planning or implementing social networking integration projects of any size or depth.

BIOGRAPHY: Chris Poulin is Managing Partner of Patterns and Predictions (predictive analytics) & Poulin Holdings (web/network services.)  His most recent projects have been in integration of analytics and social networking. Research affiliations include Dartmouth College in machine learning and Umass in high performance computing (HPC). He was previously the Chief Architect and VP of Advanced Technology for a commercial entity (Viziant) a provider of  Search/KM. He is a patent holding inventor in Federated Web and Information Retrieval systems.

Readings

Clark, Robert. Culture, Not Tech, Slows Social Nets at Work. Computerworld/PCWorld, 04/05/2009, 1p. “The takeout? If you’re planning a social networking project at your organization, make haste slowly — you’re way ahead of your colleagues.”

Conry-Murray, Andrew. Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off? Information Week, 03/23/2009, pp. 23- 29. “Five best practices for social networking in business: 1. Test the waters 2. Set modest expectations 3. Don’t let fear strangle growth 4. Resist exclusivity 5. Don’t forget about search”

Reid, Carolina. Should Business Embrace Social Networking? EContent Magazine, 06/15/2009, 3p.

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PLEASE Register even if you are not certain you can attend so we have an accurate estimate of attendees for handouts.

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How Text Analytics, BI and Data Mining/Text Mining Contribute to KM

Published by lynda on October 23, 2009 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 1 Comment

Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

TOPIC:  Our discussion will focus on tools and techniques employed by participants for gaining new insights by extracting, manipulating and analyzing all types of information resources at their disposal. Here are some simple definitions to begin the discussion:

•    Text Analytics: Text Data that helps track business trends; Records that describe part of a larger domain sophisticated version of data.
•    BI (Business Intelligence):Technologies that gather, store, analyze and make accessible data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. It includes decision support, query and reporting, online analytical processing, statistical analysis, forecasting and data mining. Viewed by some as the umbrella for other technologies including text mining and analytics.
•    Data Mining: Computerized process for extracting content from structured repositories
•    Text Mining: Extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Interdisciplinary field that draws upon: Information retrieval, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistics, Fact extraction, Computational linguistics

Readings:

Executive Summary: ForeTell®: The Future of Business Intelligence by DecisionPath

5 Tips for Using Predictive Analytics Software. Predictive analytics can help you make better business decisions, but only if you understand its limitations, by David Carr.

Text Analytics Takes Business Insight To New Depths; An Obscure Technology Has Found Its Killer App
by Leslie Owens

Why Will Analytics Be the Next Competitive Edge? , by Gary Cokins 11/12/2009 Information Management.
November 12, 2009 [Once a “nice-to-have,” applying analytics is now mission-critical]
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Meeting Notice: Social Media Strategies, Boston CHI

Published by lynda on October 9, 2009 in Non-KM Forum Events Posting. 0 Comments

Title: Social Media Strategies [http://bostonchi.org/]

Speaker: Lisa Gualtieri
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Health Communication Program, Tufts University School of Medicine
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 6:30 PM
Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA

Please RSVP to BostonCHI@sun.com if you plan to attend.

Finding and Keeping the Job You Want: Career Tactics for Technical Communicators

Published by lynda on October 7, 2009 in Non-KM Forum Events Posting. 0 Comments

Date:Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Program Title: Finding and Keeping the Job You Want: Career Tactics for Technical Communicators
Presenter: Brenda Huettner, STC Fellow

http://www.stcboston.org/programs/prog_Oct09.shtml

Getting the Most KM Bang-for-your-(information technology) bucks

Published by lynda on October 6, 2009 in Thursday Afternoon Meetings. 0 Comments

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. 

SPEAKERS: Simon Trussler,  Senior VP, and Anna Gilpatric, Content Coordinator - Health Dialog

TOPIC: In the current economy it’s more important than ever to get the highest ROI possible on your knowledge management endeavors. This presentation will show how Health Dialog is using SharePoint for low-investment, high-impact knowledge management, as well as identifying out-of-the-box features and simple add-ons any company can use to get the highest return on its  KM investment.

BIOGRAPHY: Simon Trussler has led Health Dialog University, the firm’s training and knowledge management function, since early 2007, and also works in the international business development group.  Prior to joining Health Dialog, he led the global KM function for Boston Consulting Group for 12 years, and was a previously a partner in BCG’s consulting practice in Europe.  He has MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University.

Anna Gilpatric is the Content Coordinator Health Dialog University. Anna graduated from the University of Maine in 2008 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Business Administration. In 2008 Anna started working for Health Dialog University, coordinating their knowledge management initiatives. Anna is also the company’s designated internal SharePoint trainer.

PLEASE Register even if you are not certain you can attend so we have an accurate estimate of attendees for handouts.

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