The Knowledge Management Discussion is issues of the "new" field of knowledge management, particularly with regard to setting up such a function in their libraries or organizations.
I wish to thank those of you who took time to complete this global survey on Knowledge Management practices. We have obtained responses from more than 80 organisations from 26 different countries.
For the purpose of statistical validity, I need at least 200 responses. If you have not yet completed the survey, I encourage you to do so. This is an opportunity for you to have an impact on Knowledge Management and receive a free personalised KM report.
You will be glad to know that a new journal Journal of Scientometric Research (www.jscires.org) has been launched. This journal comes from SciBiolMed.Org, which has around 20 journals with 16 journals in Scopus and 1 in SCI. From this issue onwards, it is published by Medknow Publications a brand of WoltersKluwerHealth. The objective of this journal is to provide a platform for scholarship in Scientometrics and also act as an exchange between Scientometrics and other closely connected research domains i.e. Science Technology Studies, Innovation studies etc. To attract scholars from interdisciplinary research traditions and also keeping in view that scholars within Scientometrics are themselves from heterogeneous disciplinary traditions, we have created different categories for contributions. Along with Research Paper and Review Paper, the journal has Perspective, and Commentary, Webliography and Research-in-Progress paper for providing platform to young promising researchers or scholars announcing important work in progress. We welcome papers in the areas of Research Evaluation; S&T Indicators; Innovation Indicators; Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, Patentometrics, Bibliometrics; and related areas. We look forward to your contribution in any of the sections for the Forthcoming issue.
Please note that the journal publishes three issues in a year Jan-Apr, May-Aug, Sep-Dec. Please refer to http://www.jscires.org/ for digital copy of the first issue. Soon the digital version of the second issue will be available in the site followed by the print version.
We will make sure that work accepted after peer review gets a broad audience by announcing the issue through many different channels like newsgroups, mail lists, flyers at conferences.
We look forward to your submission in this journal. Thanks for your support.
With Warm Regards
Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya, Ph.D Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientometric Research [An Official Publication of SciBiolMed.Org] Senior Principal Scientist (NISTADS) & Guest Faculty (JNU) Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012, INDIA editor@jscires.org | www.jscires.org
Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Assistant Editor, Journal of Scientometric Research
=== INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION - early bird closes 30 June ===
International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification& Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013. The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications. Speakers include: W. Boyd Rayward, Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst, Scott Weingart, etc. To learn more about the conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013 Early bird registration closes on 30th June: €180 early bird fee, students €140 (to 30 June) €220 regular fee, students €180 Registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book. Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org We look forward to seeing you in October ===
I hope you are doing great.Could you share your experiences on "Online KM campaigning events" for user engagement & contribution in KM communities & for creating KM awareness (Campaigns using internal social media tools.To be frank, users are engaged more in internal micro blogging social media tools than formal KM communities)
Connecting with associates at F2F level helped in building trust & in establishing a smooth communication. But, to save budget in this WEB generation 2.0-3.0, What kind of KPIs that you considered for such online KM campaigns and how did you collect the metrics (tools that you plugged into social media tools)? Thanks!
Regards Praveen Veeramalla
From: praveenkumar veeramalla <praveenkumarveeramalla@yahoo.com> To: km4dev-l@dgroups.org; actkm@actkm.org; kmdg-l@infoserv.inist.fr; sigkm-l@asis.org; david.gurteen@gurteen.com; editor@knowledgeboard.com; KM_Best_Practices@yahoogroups.com; dlrg@drtc.isibang.ac.in; kmlf@yahoogroups.com; KM-Forum@yahoogroups.com; km-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:33 AM Subject: [KM-Forum] Knowledge Management Events
Folks
We are planning to conduct a KM day this month end or in the next month which will include one full week of events and programs prior to KM day. The primary goal of this event is to make every one in our Global Business Unit aware of our Knowledge Management portal as a tool and to promote KM as a concept for implementation interns to mitigate following basic challenges:
§Getting members to participate in discussion forums, wikis, blog of the particular community/contribut e Knowledge assets
§Attracting the Business Unit's associates to Visit their respective community
§Keeping the community page's content current.
[Please keep in mind that our knowledge management portal consists of 70-80 communities each community representing a practice/process. Each community can have different project accounts i.e. hundreds of members may be participating in each community. We offered wiki, discussion forum, blog, polls, surveys, newsletters, news, assets, contacts tools for each community. Each community can have at least one moderator and leader from their practice]
We are primarily planning to start this event in each locations of our Business Unit in India and then be moving out to other continents of our Business Unit. The basic purpose of this event is to attract the attention of associates who haven't been exposed to Knowledge Management and to connect with associates at F2F level and to show our commitment for KM at various levels-individual, team/project, organization & clients.
We are planning a series of sessions repeated in each day on KM week with each session consisting of 60-90 minutes events-a presentation, demo video, quizes, questions & answers ,Feedback. Give aways could be T-shirts, ipods & prizes for winners. We would be offering a stall and logistics for each community leader for the event to showcase their community at event to create awareness of their ones.
To create awareness of this program we are planning to conduct a slogan contest among the leaders/moderators of all the communities [Those will be used on T-shirts, Posters etc].putting countdown screen savers about the event at employees desks. Inviting success stories from the community leaders/moderators. We will then be announcing Best communityaward based on our standard ranking system for a community. Poster campaigns [Mobile/static posters],T-shirt compaigns to engage the associates to events
If you have experiences of conducting such events please share your best practices, lessons learnt for such event activities on following stages:
§Before the KM day event
§During the KM day event
§After the KM day.
Would appreciate the sharing of your exciting ideas,thoughts for such event
International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague
The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.
A series of eminent speakers will follow: W. Boyd Rayward, Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Scott Weingart, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst etc.
To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013
Early bird registration closes 30th June: €180 early bird fee, students €140 (to 30 June) €220 regular fee, students €180
Registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book.