actKM meeting July 7th 2009
Presenter: Paul James (Country Energy) and Bill Tarlinton (Opals Software)
Subject: Knowledge transfer using real-time Simulators for Operational Training in Electricity Distribution Networks
Paul and Bill will discuss the evolution and application of a ‘flight simulator’ for the operation of Country Energy’s electrical distribution network, one of the world's largest. The simulator was developed to overcome a long-standing problem that exists with ensuring that System Operation’s staff have the training and experience needed to manage the network. An additional problem exists with the testing of business processes capable of dealing effectively with rare events, such as major bush fires, outages or system
Time: 5.30 - 7.00pm
Location: Lyons Room, National Archives, Canberra Australia - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
actKM meeting June 2nd 2009
Presenter: Mark Spain of Global Learning. - The Emerging Story of enACT for the Future
Mark will discuss strengthening links and capabilities in communities of practice for sustainability across multiple localities. It will include the role of dialogue, story telling, creativity and building trust to share knowledge and build sustained commitment when planning action to solve complex problems.
Location: National Archives, Canberra Australia, from 5.30 pm to 7 pm - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
mark@globallearning.com.au p 02 6249 1344 m 0404 411 353
http://globallearning.com.au - Facilitating change, leadership and innovation
http://imeet.com.au - Australia's premier collaborative meeting technology
actKM09 - Call for Submissions
The Organising Committee is pleased to provide the opportunity for interested parties to submit proposals for the actKM 09 conference.
actKM 09 will be held on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th of October 2009 at University House, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, Australia.
Those interested can look at our full Call for Submissions document. Submissions are requested by 15 June 2009. Please direct any questions or submissions to our conference team at conference2009@actkm.org.
More information about the conference itself can be found on our Conference 2009 page.
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actKM May meeting - Wednesday 6th
Knowledge for Regional NRM Program - 2008 actKM platinum award winner
Nerida Hart, Program Manager, Knowledge for Regional NRM at Land & Water Australia will present a case study of the Knowledge for Regional NRM Program which has run from early 2005 to June 2009. This program had the overarching goal of connecting regional NRM organisations with the knowledge (research) providers and empower these regional organisations to better manage their information and knowledge.
The program delivered a combination of people and technology solutions which was embraced by the regional NRM organisations. Nerida will look at the Return on investment for the Australian Government and what the program has meant to the NRM sector in Australia.
National Archives at 5.30 to 7 pm - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
RSS - why RSS matters in the information environment - April 7th
Outline:
Intro: My interest in coming to speak with the good folk of ACT KM is that I’m looking for the answers to some questions that have always fascinated me about the places where the social relates to the technical. Knowledge management is one such broad environment. And a good place to investigate this interface between the social and the technical is with RSS. RSS in the information environment does matter, but in what ways?
What actually is RSS?
- “news flash”
- Enterprise RSS
- A data format
- A way of using information by reference, rather than by instance
Brief history of development of RSS
- Berners-Lee’s initial paper
- Yahoo!
- Dave Winer
- RSS 2.0
- RSS 1.0
- Atom
- Google’s use of Atom
The differences between RSS (therefore XML) and HTML
- HTML is about appearance
- RSS (XML) is about structure
RSS use to date
- Mainly publish -> View
- RSS readers
- Podcasts are RSS
- Twitter as RSS
The possibilities of RSS
- RSS in Web 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0
- RSS as a two-way process: Publish -> View -> Edit -> Republish
- RSS as a collaborative building block
- Demo Xenos
- Demo xNewz
Return to the questions
- What is so challenging about RSS in this context?
- What social/business information “rules” does this use of RSS violate?
Conclusion and discussion
Where: National Archives of Australia
Time 5.30 to 7 pm
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Collaboration .... takes more than wishful thinking - actKM March monthly meeting
When times are tough it’s important to make the most of available resources. Organisations of all shapes and sizes have spent millions of dollars on ‘collaboration’ software yet the level of sophistication in the way we collaborate hasn’t improved dramatically. It’s time to be more systematic and effective collaborators and this starts with understanding what it really means and not fretting over the functionality of communication software, regardless of how alluring the latest web 2.x version looks.
We need to build collaborative cultures and skills. Not just for our success internally, but also to ensure success with stakeholders, clients, suppliers and partners.
The presentation will focus on the practicalities of developing effective collaboration cultures and skills with plenty of illustrations from our work with organisations like public and private sector organisations, both large and small, local and international.
The foundations are there. The software is available. The need is clearly here. 2009 will mark the tipping point where organisations will move from emphasising collaboration tools to placing the effort on people, on their behaviours and capabilities. We mustn’t forget: it’s people who collaborate.
Presented by Mark Schenk of Anecdote Pty Ltd www.anecdote.com.au
Come along to our first monthly meeting for 2009 at National Archives (for those in Canberra)
Date: Tuesday March 3rd at 5.30 pm
All that is expected is a gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles (if you are partaking of food and drink)
If you wish to know more contact convenor@actkm.org or deputyconvenor@actkm.org
Patrick Lambe - Leveraging and Valuing Expertise in Your Organisation
Dear all (at least those who are located in or around Canberra)
ActKM will be holding a workshop with Patrick Lambe on Friday the 13th at University House (ANU) Common Room from 9.30 to 3 pm.
A registration form can be requested from chandni@anecdote.com.au – a cost of $50 per head is being sought as we have had to pay for a venue – no free venues available this time unfortunately.
Leveraging and Valuing Expertise in Your Organisation
In this session, participants will examine the nature of expertise and experience and explore the different ways in which they contribute to the success of an organisation. Taking participants' own experiences of how expertise is leveraged in their own organisations, we will identify patterns of organisational needs and behaviours and identify common issues in the way that expertise is valued and leveraged (or not). Finally we'll close with a framework for planning a response to expertise needs, and identify some practical techniques that can be deployed to accelerate expertise transfer. This workshop is part of the open research project "Leveraging and Valuing Expertise" (http://usingexpertise.com).
* Introduction: the nature of expertise and experience
* Grounding: Anecdote circles with participants exchanging their stories of how expertise is leveraged and used (or misused) in their organisations
* Sensemaking: we work with the stories to identify patterns and key issues in the participants' situations
* Planning: we work with an expertise transfer framework and the Straits Knowledge KM Method Cards to build outline plans for some of the participants' situations
* Close: closing discussion looking at general patterns and sharing any relevant case examples
Facilitator:
Patrick Lambe: Patrick is founder of KM research and consulting firm Straits Knowledge, two term President of the Information and Knowledge Management Society, and an active member of the actKM forum for several years. Patrick is a prolific blogger and conference speaker, and is the author of Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness(Oxford: Chandos, 2007), KM Method Cards (Straits Knowledge 2008) and KM Approaches Methods and Tools - A Guidebook (Straits Knowledge 2008). Patrick was originally trained in Library Science and arrived in KM via a second career in training and development. He has been based in Singapore for 16 years. Patrick is also an Adjunct Professor in KM at the Hong KongPolytechnic University.
Advice for New Knowledge Managers
Several attendees at the conference were asked about what one piece of advice they would give to "newbies" new to a knowledge management role.
"podcast": Advice for New Knowledge Managers
Material from conference interactive sessions
In addition to the presentations, there were also a number of interactive elements that the facilitators have analysed and have posted results on. These include:
Arthur Shelley's chart mapping levels of centralisation/ de-centralisation and people-focus/ tool-focus.
Laurence Lock Lee's value network map and "some video of some ‘hard core’ KM negotiators".
As more results come up, I'll be amending this entry with links.
If there are any problems or suggestions, let me know via email to siteadmin@actkm.org.
Presentations from Day 2 of actKM 2008
Well, actKM08 has (almost) been and gone. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it and found the 2 days fruitful. Here are the links to the presentations from Day 2:
Serena Joyner - Collaboration Cafe Act III - Debrief
Matt Hodgson - KM 2.0 - Myth or Legend
There is also now a slideshare group for the conference called (originally enough) actkm 2008, available here.
Please let me know if you have any difficulties accessing any of these presentations at siteadmin@actkm.org
