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Deliver Us from Web 2.0 Content Chaos: Activity, Attraction and Personal Knowledge Create the Awareness Engine

Published by lynda on November 20, 2009 in Thursday Afternoon Meetings. 2 Comments

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. 

SPEAKER: Thierry Hubert and Bill Ives, Darwin Ecosystem LLC

TOPIC:  The presentation will share with the audience a practical application of chaos theory for creating knowledge focal points from the chaotic mess of content resources distributed across the Web. Using a couple of examples, one from the Internet where socially generated content is exploding, and one from the enterprise where social tools are also contributing their own content bloat, Thierry will discuss the ideas that are driving a new product idea. The examples will illustrate how activity can make information more discoverable, and easier to explore through various visualization techniques. These techniques open the door for more self-discovery through intuitive recognition of patterns. They will help the explorer to find relationships among content objects and people that would not have been found using traditional search methods. PRESENTATION

BIOGRAPHY: Thierry Hubert has over 20 years experience in Knowledge Management, Collaboration Technologies and online Social Networks.  He is the co-founder of Darwin Ecosystem, a company currently building a next generation awareness engine based on emergence ranking from chaos theory principles.  While working for Price Waterhouse, Lotus Development Corporation and IBM, he helped create and pioneer some of the first recognized collaborative, knowledge management and enterprise 2.0 solutions for Fortune 500 companies.  His experience and passion for solving information consumption overload, in the increasingly chaotic and unstructured Web 2.0 communication flow, has lead him to embrace the chaos theory as a foundation for awareness, discovery and serendipity.

Bill Ives leads the social media efforts at Darwin Ecosystem. He has served for over 25 years in leadership positions as a consultant in learning, knowledge management, other business applications of emerging technologies, and most recently with social media such as blogs and Twitter. He has worked with US Fortune 500 companies in a range of industries, along with a number of leading European firms. He is also currently working with a variety of firms and individuals helping them with their blogging and Twitter strategies. Bill contributes to two blogs on enterprise 2.0: FastForward and the Appgap, as well as his own Portals and KM blog and the new Darwin Discovery Engine Blog.

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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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Transforming your Structure to be Relevant in a Knowledge World

Published by lynda on July 27, 2009 in Thursday Afternoon Meetings. 0 Comments

Thursday, August 20, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions. 

SPEAKER: Jack Vinson, Consultant, P3 Consulting Group (probable - topic will be discussed anyway in the event that Jack has an unexpected conflict)

TOPIC: This is intended to be an open discussion at the meeting.  We will kick things off with some thoughts, inspired by Art Murray’s KMWorld articles on An Opportunity for Real Change (parts 1 and 2).  The idea behind these articles and our discussion will be the structure(s) needed for knowledge management to make sense in our organizations as we move ahead.

http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Column/Future-of-the-Future/The-Future-of-the-The-Future-An-opportunity-for-real-change–53113.aspx
http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Column/Future-of-the-Future/The-Future-of-the-Future-An-opportunity-for-real-change,-Part-2–53568.aspx

BIOGRAPHY: Jack Vinson has had a varied career with roles ranging from traditional chemical engineering (PhD discipline) to internal consulting to teaching to product management to consulting.  Jack’s current interests lie in knowledge management and Theory of Constraints as applied to organizations as well as what individuals can do to improve their own practices.  He’s currently a consultant with P3 Consulting Group, where the focus is on helping companies align their internal processes with their goals in the marketplace.

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Boston KM Forum Blog - A Case Study in How to Share What We Know

Published by lynda on May 20, 2008 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 0 Comments

Friday, June 6th, 2008 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

Now that the Boston KM Forum has a blog, it is easier to upload and link content related to each event held by the Forum. Members are also writing about our meetings in their own blogs and linking to events recently held. So, in addition to meeting presentations, bibliographies and topical discussions registered in affiliated blogs we are accumulating more content and commentary about members and themes. More than a year ago we built a taxonomy for KM topics. It is used to tag meeting notices but only by our blog administrators. It is time to have the next discussion about how can we make the blog site more content rich and organized for helpful navigation. What do you think we should be including on this site? How should it be categorized? How should we handle incoming links and event slide shows? What else should we be considering? We will make this meeting a working session, so bring your ideas and commentary.

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