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Selling Taxonomies to organisations, Thursday July 3 2014

Blog for NetIKX July 3rd 2014 Whatever happened to Margate? The NetIKX meeting this month was highly popular. I thought a session on Taxonomy might be considered dull, but I guess the hook was in the title: ‘making the business case for taxonomy’. The session did provide great ideas for making a business case for an organisational taxonomy project, […]

July 2014 Seminar: Selling Taxonomies to Organisations

4th July 2014/in Events 2014, Knowledge and information organisation and modelling, Organisation and modelling: taxonomy, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary The NetIKX seminar for July addressed the need for a taxonomy and its potential to the organization. There were two case studies presented. The first from Alice Laird, (ICAEW), faced the business case quandary head on. How did they get hard headed Finance to budget for their taxonomy plans? The winning move here was […]

Information on the Move Seminar Tuesday May 13th Part 2

18th May 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/by Netikx

Max Whitby of Touch Press http//www.touchpress.com came to talk to @30 people attending the NetIKX seminar at the British Dental Association in Wimpole Street, following on from David Nicholas (see related blog Part 1). Max’s company specialises in creating apps which are interactive and provide information or assist in education. In other words, these apps […]

Information on the Move – Seminar held on Tuesday May 13th 2014 – Part 1

18th May 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx/by Netikx

David Nicholas came to talk to a group of @30 NetIKX members at the h.q. of the British Dental Association in Wimpole Street. David runs CIBER a pan-European research outfit : http//ciber-research.eu He spoke about ‘The second digital transition’ which means that there will be no librarians (as we know them) by 2022. ‘The first digital […]

May 2014 Seminar: Information on the Move

17th May 2014/in Corporate knowledge and information management, Events 2014, K and I sharing: accessibility, Knowledge and information sharing, Organisational K and IM: library and archive management, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary The first speaker, David, spoke about ‘The second digital transition’ which means that there will be no librarians (as we know them) by 2022. ‘The first digital revolution’ took place in the office or in the library. The device – the PC – was desk bound, office bound. ‘The second digital revolution’ is taking […]

How to convince your organization that it needs a Taxonomy

2nd April 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Ensuring business value and cost effectiveness, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx/by Netikx

NetIKX will hold an event on July 3rd 2014 which addresses the above issue. Two speakers from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) will speak about their taxonomy and its potential to the organization. Anna Burmajster is Head of Information Services at the ICAEW. Alice Laird is the Taxonomy Project Manager […]

Blog Post : Incentivising knowledge sharing behaviours

21st March 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Ensuring business value and cost effectiveness, Managing information and knowledge, Netikx/by Netikx

35 people attended this NetIKX event held at the British Dental Association on the afternoon of Tuesday March 18th 2014. Steve Dale spoke on the ‘hot topic’ of ‘gamification’. Quite simply, ‘gamification’ is the process of applying game elements to non-game applications using the fundamentals of human psychology to address motivation, ability levels and ‘triggers’ […]

March 2014 Seminar: Incentivising knowledge sharing behaviours

19th March 2014/in Events 2014, K and IM: professional development, Knowledge and information management, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary Steve Dale gave an excellent presentation on the ‘hot topic’ of ‘gamification’. Quite simply, ‘gamification’ is the process of applying game elements to non-game applications using the fundamentals of human psychology to address motivation, ability levels and ‘triggers’. Steve instanced a number of examples – from a multitude: within the NHS (a gamification app […]

January 2014 Seminar: When space matters (for collaboration, innovation and knowledge transfer)

28th January 2014/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2014, Previous Events/by Netikx

Summary Paul delivered a thrilling tour around the world, looking at how the physical space available for knowledge management will affect the outcomes. He shared his wealth of experience with appropriate slides and anecdotes to ensure his audience were given plenty of insights into what works well and what less so. Paul also provided practical […]

Event report: From data and information to knowledge: the Web of tomorrow – a talk by Dr Serge Abiteboul

3rd December 2013/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Netikx/by Netikx

Some notes taken at the Milner Award Lecture by Dr Serge Abiteboul for the Royal Society on 12th November, From data and information to knowledge: the Web of tomorrow. Dr Abiteboul was awarded the 2013 Milner Award, given annually for outstanding achievement in computer science by a European researcher. Dr Abiteoul’s research work focuses mainly on data, […]