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Entries from February 2009

SlideShare Career Page

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Seems that the slides I posted on SlideShare about a career in Knowledge Management got promoted and featured on their Career page. It will be there for the day, but you can also find it through my blog post below Permalink: http://www.joelalleyne.net/2009/02/16/kmdi-alumni-presentation-january/ SlideShare link: http://www.slideshare.net/jalleyne/how-can-studying-knowledge-media-design-help-you-with-a-career-in-km?type=presentation. Joel

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Expertise Management Book List

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I have started a list of expertise books on Amazon. There are several books on the subject that I have read over the last two years. I will try to keep this list up to date. If you know of other books that should be on this list, I would love to hear from you. [...]

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Are Expertise Networks an issue for large organizations or SMEs?

February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

At the presentation for the Toronto Knowledge Workers group, one of the participants asked (and I paraphrase): “How large does an organization have to be to take advantage of expertise networks?”. Reaching back in my memory, I remembered having a similar discussion about ‘virtual organizations‘ when I was doing a workshop for the Association for [...]

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Old Views about knowledge

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Sir Francis Bacon was right about knowledge. It is power. Ben Franklin agreed. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” We think our perspectives on knowledge are new. Think again. If you have any old quotes / perspectives, please share them with us.

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KMDI Alumni Presentation (January)

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I recently did a presentation as part of the KMDI alumni series for students interested in a career in Knowledge Management. The presentation is on SlideShare (this time I edited it in advance to avoid the formatting problems). Enjoy How Can Studying Knowledge Media Design Help You With A Career in KM View more presentations [...]

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Presentation to the Toronto Knowledge Workers Group

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I recently did a presentation on Expertise Networks to colleagues in the Toronto Knowledge Workers Group. I have posted the slides on SlideShare (if you have not explored SlideShare, I would encourage you to do so. A great place to find and share slides on almost any topic. Some of the slides are shared with [...]

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I’m back…

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

After a hiatus and time away from this blog, I’m back. Thanks for your patience. Joel

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