Participating in this event will enable you to:
•Learn about the current state of play with user adoption strategies
•Develop your thinking about the user adoption strategy for collaboration technologies at your organization.
For more information about this FREE event go to: http://www.melbournekmlf.org/?p=191
The Federal Government sponsored Government 2.0 Taskforce presented its final report at the end of 2009 - see http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html
As part of the Taskforce's consultation process, they commissioned the creation of Online Engagement Guidelines and a Web 2.0 Toolkit. This was designed to provide guidance to government agencies using web 2.0 tools and provided a recommendation for a toolkit of web 2.0 technologies that agencies can use based on principles of shared services and re-use.
James Dellow will provide a briefing on:
* The Government 2.0 Taskforce
* An overview of the new Online Engagement Guidelines and Web 2.0 Toolkit
* How you can make use of it
* How your Knowledge Management skills and practices can contribute to enabling Government 2.0
James will then facilitate an open discussion on the topic, using a conversation cafe style format.
About James Dellow
James Dellow is a former chair of the NSW KM Forum and experienced information and knowledge management practitioner and consultant. He was one of the primary authors behind the new Online Engagement Guidelines and Web 2.0 Toolkit, commissioned by the Government 2.0 Taskforce.
James joined Headshift in March 2009, a specialist online social media and social computing consulting and development company. Headshift has significant experience with the government and non-profit sectors, including ground breaking and innovative Government 2.0 projects such as the NHS Patient Opinion initiative in the UK. James himself has worked in the Health and Federal Government sectors in Australia and also holds qualifications in public sector administration (from the UK). Headshift has also assisted the Australian Law Reform Commission with another Taskforce sponsored project, a pilot online consultation - see http://gov2.net.au/projects/project-15/
actKM 09 is planned to look to the future and consider what the discipline of Knowledge Management in 2020 will be like. Will KM dissolve into general management practice, will it mature into the critical management discipline that many believe it should be or will it mutate into something we have yet to envisage in order to survive.
The keynote presentation Faith, Magic and Culture in Knowledge Management, is from Patrick Lambe from Singapore. Proceeding will be Amanda Horne’s presentation on how positive psychology pulls people (and their knowledge) together. We will have an Accelerated Networking activity from Optmice and experiential workshops on Collective Intelligence by Jay Hays and Tackling Wicked Problems by Valarie Brown.
The annual dinner and awards evening will include our famous collaboration cabaret and our after dinner speaker Dr David Vaine of Apparently KM PLC, tackles the generation gap in the workplace between Gen Y workers and the rest of us, and the implications for assuring the future of minimal impact KM.
From Melbourne, Frank Connolly will share his work on Thinking Skills and Arthur Shelley on why Knowledge initiatives fail. Dr Helen Hasan will lead an experiential ‘Back to the Future for KM’ activity and Mark Schenk’s ‘Story Slam’ activity is sure to entertain.
Laurie Lock Lee opens day 2 on Corporate Social Capital followed by the results of Sally Burford’s study on how large Australian government agencies are using KM standards, guides, frameworks and models.
The afternoon will include a hypothetical chaired by Nerida Hart on KM in 2020 followed by usability guru Andrew Boyd on managing the user experience for Gov 2.0. Matt Moore will once again entertain us with his experiences with lepers (real ones), consultants, salespeople, and bureaucrats.
The conference will finish up with an emotional presentation by Dr Siwan Lovett on People, Passion and Place that will expand our ideas about ‘knowledge’
The Program and Registration form are available from our 2009 conference page at http://www.actkm.org/actkm_2009_conference.php
Any other enquiries about the conference can be e-mailed to conference2009@actkm.org.
As always with Dave, you can expect a free-flowing, semi-structured and often controversial presentation with opportunities for interaction from the audience.
Date: Wednesday 29th July 2009
Time: 3:00 - 5.00 pm
Location: The Drawing Room (turn right as you go through reception)
University House, Cnr Eggelston and Garran Rds, Acton
Australian National University
Cost: entry is by gold coin donation for afternoon tea.
Please RSVP to David Williams at convenor@actkm.org
About Dave Snowden
Dave Snowden is a major figure in the movement towards integration of humanistic approaches to knowledge management and sensemaking. He is generally held to be one of the leading practitioners and thinkers in the field of a naturalising (science based) approached to decision theory and sensemaking. Well known for his work on the role of narrative and complexity theory in sense-making, he is an entertaining speaker and a formidable realist, and one of the few thought leaders who can bring together the academic and practitioner perspectives into a single, comprehensible purview.
He is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, which focuses on the development of the theory and practice of sensemaking. Cognitive Edge exists to integrate academic thinking with practice in organisations throughout the world and operates on a network model working with Academics, Government, Commercial Organisations, NGOs and Independent Consultants. The Cynefin framework, which lies at the heart of the approach, has been recognized by several commentators as one of the first practical application of complexity theory to management science.
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.
Location: National Archives, Canberra Australia, from 5.30 pm to 7 pm - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
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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.
]]> The theme for this year is ‘Mutate, Mature or Miss Out’, relating to the question of what changes should organisations undergo in an increasingly competitive environment where the world economy is plunged into recession? What can organisations do in such an environment to re-invent themselves and is KM a feasible strategy to enable organisations to weather the current situation and emerge from it with greater capability and sustainability?]]>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.
]]>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
Scott Lewis is co-owner of metanews.biz, a company that develops information management software in Melbourne. His background in technology began when he became accidentally employed by a computer hardware manufacturer in San Francisco in the 1980s. Since then he has developed technology systems at companies such as AIG and LexisNexis, and worked for the obligatory dot-com bubble online store. Scott is very interested in the possibilities of taking techniques and ideas that have been sequestered away in the “programming world”, and making them available and useful to people pursuing normal, everyday tasks at work.
]]>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
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