“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch
The theme for this year’s actKM Conference is ‘Getting Clever about Knowledge’ and explores the question of how organisations can improve the way in which they generate and manage new knowledge.
The conference promises to be excellent, with several international and Australian experts covering topics ranging from the latest technology for storing and managing knowledge, through to cultivating wisdom, leadership and enhancing performance in organisations. Nerida, Matt and myself will all be presenting papers at the event, and are really looking forward to learning about the latest thinking and knowledge management approaches.
Why not make a trip to Canberra and spend three days immersing yourself in Knowledge Management (18-19 October actKM Conference) and Narrative Techniques (Connecting through Conversation 20 October), we would love to see you!
Siwan, Nerida and Matt
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” – Rudyard Kipling
We have had such a positive response to the resources we have provided on the website about the importance of storytelling, that we are pleased to announce a workshop entitled Connecting through Conversation: Narrative Techniques for Organisational Knowledge Sharing. We will explore how storytelling and other narrative techniques can transform and enhance productivity and happiness in your organisation.
The workshop will be held at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra on Oct 20. The workshop webpage has more details about the narrative techniques we will be teaching at this ‘hands-on’ training event. The cost is just $395.00 per person (GST excl.) or $355.00 (GST excl.) for not-for-profit organisations. Register here.
Siwan, Nerida and Matt
Tags: Appreciative inquiry, Connections, Conversation, Information and knowledge management, Knowledge cafe, Knowledge management, Most signficant change, Narrative techniques, Positive deviance, Reverse brainstorming, Stories, Storytelling, Workshop
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6 September 2010 5:05 pm | 
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A new Knowledge and Information Framework outlining how regional natural resource management (NRM) knowledge and information needs across Queensland can be better managed has been released by the Regional Groups Collective (RGC), which represents the state-wide interests of the 14 regional NRM bodies in Queensland. To download the framework click here or visit the Collective Projects page of the RGC website.
The collaborative online wiki www.collections.org.au has also been established to document NRM projects and facilitate knowledge and information sharing for NRM groups.
There is so much talk of ‘information overload’ in our society. Are we really overloaded or are we over-consuming? I have been hearing about this concept for so many years now and I was fascinated by this blog posting by Clay Johnson which I fell across this week. Clay’s argument is that we are over-consuming information just the way we over-consume food. It is in our power to control this over-consumption.
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This week has been amazing with seven days in New Orleans on the mighty Mississippi River for the annual Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference.
For the last five years I have been attending the SLA conference and have visited some fascinating parts of the USA. However, this year was special. Since starting to work with ARRC I have found a new interest in the rivers of the world, and have now visited the 3rd largest. Just the Amazon and the Nile to go if I want to visit the top three!
SLA is a very large international information and knowledge management professional association with members from across the globe. Last year, during the SLA centennial, I was Chair of the Knowledge Management Division. The KM Division is the fastest growing Division, and is now one of the largest, even though we have only been in existence for 4 years. I also ran my Continuing Education course on evaluation using narrative techniques, which for the second year in a row was a great success. I will probably be running this again in 2011 in Philadelphia. If you are interested in qualitative evaluation the ARRC could run this course for you here in Australia – please let us know.
Nerida
PS I also managed to fit in a few days in New York – and despite my preconceived ideas about big cities, have found this to be a very pleasant place and will definitely be visiting again.
