Dr Michael Nelson is a Canberra based management consultant working for ThirdHorizon Consulting. He has been helping clients improve knowledge and document management over 10 years, throughout Australia, Asia, and EMIEA.

Last year he developed a knowledge management strategy and blueprint for a large Middle Eastern construction company based in Athens, Greece. The company had experienced dramatic growth doubling in size in just 18 months resulting in staff numbers of 120,000 by 2007. Previously effective informal knowledge sharing networks had become fragmented, and the company had decided to evaluate whether formally investing in improved knowledge sharing would be beneficial. As part of the initial business case for KM a 'Challenge Session' was developed to determine and improve the level of KM buy-in by senior executives. The session used a combination of KM maturity model benchmarking, evidence based as-is analysis, best-practice case-studies, and discussions aimed at achieving consensus to build a core team of senior level advocates. Michael will discuss the Challenge Session,and talk about the case-study in general.

Date 1 July 2008
Place: National Library of Australia Conference Room
Time: 5.30-7.30pm

Please note this is a rescheduling of the April actKM meeting

actKM 08 will be held on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th of October 2008 at University House, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, Australia. The theme for actKM 08 is ‘Managing Knowledge for Competitive Advantage’ and actKM 08 is being designed to address the crucial issue of how we realise value from knowledge management activities.

actKM 08 will again be highly participative and interactive.

We are seeking submissions with a preference for interactive/experiential activities that engage conference participants in a learning or competitive environment to foster understanding and facilitate an effective knowledge transfer. Submissions are requested by 9 June 2008.

One complementarity pass to the conference will be provided for each presentation.

Nerida Hart and Mark Schenk will lead an actKM workshop using World Cafe Techniques, a conversational knowledge management technique to rapidly generate and share knowledge on a topic.

This activity is the actKM contribution to Information Awareness Month, May 2008

A number of representatives from volunteer/community organistions have been invited along for this event and we hope to have a interactive workshop on exploring possible KM techniques that could be used by these type of organizations.

For more information on World Cafe watch this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSnbzUcQ44

Place: CSIRO Discovery Centre, Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, ACTON
Date: 6 May 2008
Time: 9:30 am - 12.00 noon
Morning tea provided
Price: gold coin donation on entry
RSVP to karna.o'dea@abs.gov.au
Inquiries to: David Williams, david.williams@deewr.gov.au
Ph: 02 6121 3714 or 0412 237 695

Speaker: Dave Snowden

We live in a world where everything is fragmented. Blogs represent fragmented conversations and comments that link and connect in unpredictable and unstructured ways. When we ask people for advice we don't receive fully constructed stories, instead we get fragments or anecdotes that we can blend and connect with out own experience.

In these worlds no one asks "How can we create a knowledge sharing culture", knowledge sharing comes naturally. One reason is that the nature of narrative and many aspects of social computing reflect the way our brains have evolved to handle knowledge and collaboration - fragmented, messy and unstructured in many ways the antithesis of much of the focus of knowledge management over the last decade and more.

This presentation will look at how social computing and narrative can be used to re-energise knowledge management programmes and provide radical reduction in costs while increasing effectiveness. It will look at some of the pragmatic issues of using tools such as wikis and suggest ways in which organisations can use the power of the blogosphere within a structured environment without destroying its vitality.

Where: National Library of Australia Theatrette
When: 5.30 for 6 pm on 11th March 2008
Cost: $5 donation for drinks and nibbles

Hope to see you all then

Nerida

Venue will be the National Library of Australia Theatrette
Time 5.30 to 7 pm.

We will be going out to dinner afterwards for anyone who would like to join us.

Nerida Hart
Deputy Convenor
actKM

The ATO Model Office uses a range of innovative techniques to visualise
and communicate with stakeholders about the impacts of change
initiatives. These techniques have been used to improve decision-making,
ensure integration across the enterprise, expose key design issues,
facilitate issues management, achieve buy-in, and assist deployment
teams. Liz Bennett is the Manager of the Model Office and will talk
about the work of the team and the techniques they use and provide
examples of products they have developed to improve change outcomes.

Date: 5 February 2008

Time: 5.30pm to finish

Where:
Land and Water Australia Board Room, Level 2, Phoenix Apartments, 86 Northbourne Avenue Braddon
Contact Melanie Randall, melanie.randall@lwa.gov.au if you wish to come

$4.00 for refreshments would be appreciated

if you wish to come please RSVP karna O'Dea
jkodea@netspeed.com.au

http://www.actkm.org/presentations.php

Thank you to all the presenters.

with Patrick Lambe

Date: 14th August 2007
Time: 5.30 to 7 pm
Venue: National Library of Australia 4th floor conference room

For more information on Patrick's presentation on the 7 deadly sins of KM see his blog at www.greenchameleon.com

Patrick will have limited copies of his book “Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness” (Chandos: 2007) available for sale at the discounted price of AUD$68 see http://www.organisingknowledge.com/ for detailed information on Patrick's book.

Wine, tea and coffee and nibbles will be provided before, during and after Patrick's talk to enable you to network with your KM colleagues.

If you would like to come please RSVP Nerida Hart for numbers at neridahart@optusnet.com.au

Paul Oglethorpe (Australian Parliament KM Manager) will present on:

Perspectives and developments within KM at Parliament House

Date: 3 July 2007
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia

Wine, tea and coffee and nibbles will be provided after Paul's talk to enable you to network with your KM colleagues.

If you would like to come please RSVP Karna O'Dea for numbers at jkodea@netspeed.com.au.

The presentations for KM101 are now available in the actKM Knowledgebase. Click here to access them.

Due the terrific interest and participation in the 10 best readings on KM, we are inviting everyone to bring along their favourite book on KM and argue why it should be in the top 10. We haven't met for a few months due to competing priorities and it will be great to catch up with those locals who can make it. We will publish the outcomes of the discussion on the list for those unable to get there.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event.