Knowledge Rocks!

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 View more presentations from Joel Alleyne.

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 View more presentations [...]

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

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Most of my colleagues and friends know that I have a strong research interest in questions of expertise, including topics such as expertise: development; management; networking; location; sharing; communities; etc. So, when I read July 29th Science Times section in the NY Times, I was surprised, and delighted, to find three articles that illustrate the [...]

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One of my favourite magazines, The Futurist Magazine (July-August 2008), has an interesting article (“The 21st-Century Writer“) as the cover story. I was fascinated by this examination of knowledge media and its impact on the publishing industry. The article was reporting on a conference in  February — in midtown Manhattan — publishing magnate and tech [...]

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