Knowledge Rocks!

In an article related to the Digital Health counterpoint in Business Week, the role of physicians and their status is examined [Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine -- A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened].
It seems that a number of physicians in [...]

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One of the challenges facing public health is the early recognition of problems. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back at outbreaks such as SARS and now more recently Swine Flu (H1N1) and we can see the information trail that precedes the Eureka moment or discovery point.
In retrospect, with SARS, there was chatter on [...]

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As swine flu (or should I be calling this H1N1) was at the top of the news, I saw this story on TV about a genetic scientist who was riveted to his computer screen watching the genetic sequence of the virus as it was changing. He has these strings of numbers and characters coming up [...]

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Kimiz Dalkir at McGill once told me she collected definitions for Knowledge Management. At the time she published her excellent book (Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice) she had collected and catalouged over a hundred definitions. When we spoke, I believe she had over 180; most of which were different. In part, this demonstrates the [...]

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Here is a presentation I gave at the Housing Memory student conference at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto.
Enjoy.
The Need To Forget
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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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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.
/Joel

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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 Creative [...]

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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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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
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