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July 2015 Seminar: Hillsborough – Information Work and Helping People and NetIKX AGM

22nd July 2015/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2015, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary We welcomed Jan Parry, President of CILIP, to talk about her role in the Hillsborough Inquiry. This meeting was preceded by the NetIKX AGM. Jan Parry explained how, after 23 years, records and information revealed the truth about the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. She was the only Information Professional on the secretariat of the Hillsborough […]

NetIKX meeting about Open Data (14th May 2015)

20th May 2015/in Data, Netikx/by Netikx

Write-up by Conrad Taylor (rapporteur) The May 2015 meeting of the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange took Open Data as its subject. There was a smaller crowd than usual, about 15 people in total, and rather than splitting into table discussion groups halfway, as NetIKX meetings usually do, we kept together for one extended […]

May 2015 Seminar: Open Data – Products, Services and Standards.

15th May 2015/in Events 2015, K and I sharing: open data, Knowledge and information sharing, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary 25 years ago, Sir Tim Berners Lee set out his vision for the World Wide Web by proposing a set of technologies that would make the Internet more accessible and useful. Since then, the web has transformed our global community by allowing us to freely share information with each other. When open and accessible […]

Seek and you will find? Wednesday 18th March 2015

23rd March 2015/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx/by Netikx

We had two excellent speakers for our Seminar on 18th March, entitled “Search and you will find?” Karen Blakeman and Tony Hirst. The question mark in the title was deliberate, since the underlying message was that search and discovery might sometimes throw up the unexpected. Learning objectives for the day were: To understand the commercial, […]

March 2015 Seminar: Seek and You will Find?

19th March 2015/in Events 2015, K and I retrieval: Search technology, Knowledge and information retrieval, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary Karen explained how Google is undergoing major changes in the way it analyses our searches and presents results, so that more people are using their biased, social media circles as sources of information; and an increasing amount of error-laden data is being made available free of charge. Karen delivered an insightful and informative talk […]

January 2015 Seminar: Auditing your KIM Skills Gap

28th January 2015/in Events 2015, K and IM: Skills and competencies, Knowledge and information management, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary This was a joint seminar of the Network for Information & Knowledge Exchange and TFPL Connect-ed. The start of the new year is a great time to take stock, reflect on the achievements of the last year and plan your objectives for the upcoming twelve months … The workshop was aimed at anyone with […]

November 2014 Seminar: Wider horizons for information audit

19th November 2014/in Corporate knowledge and information management, Events 2014, Organisational K and IM: information audit, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary It was wonderful to have Sue Henczel as one of our speakers as she had recently flown in from Australia. She joined with Graham Robertson, a NetIKX Committee member to discuss with us the value of information audits. Sue took the lead to update us on recent developments in the field, and Graham introduced […]

Business Information Review is seeking a new editor

31st October 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Ensuring business value and cost effectiveness, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx, Protecting information and knowledge/by Netikx

Business Information Review is seeking a new editor to replace Val Skelton and Sandra Ward from the end of March/Early April next Year. They will have completed five years of editing by then – and they think it’s time to hand over what is fun, exciting and challenging! Due to the decision of Val Skelton […]

Communities of Practice for the Post Recession Environment Tuesday 16th September 2014

22nd September 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Ensuring business value and cost effectiveness, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx, Protecting information and knowledge/by Netikx

35 people attended this Event at the British Dental Association in Wimpole Street. Our speaker was Dion Lindsay of Dion Lindsay Consulting : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dion-lindsay/3/832/920 . Dion tackled big questions in his presentation. Are the principles established for successful Communities of Practice (CoP’s) in the 1990’s and earlier still sound today ? AND what new principles and good […]

September 2014 Seminar: Communities of Practice for the Post Recession Environment

17th September 2014/in Events 2014, K and I sharing: networking, Knowledge and information sharing, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary The speaker for this seminar was Dion Lindsay of Dion Lindsay Consulting. Dion tackled big questions in his presentation, such as: Are the principles established for successful Communities of Practice (CoP’s) in the 1990’s and earlier still sound today ? He also asked what new principles and good practices are emerging as social media […]