Entries by Alison

The Future of Work for Information and Knowledge Professionals

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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of NetIKX, the November 2017 meeting was opened free of charge to people from related knowledge and information management organisations. It featured two speakers, Peter Thomson and Stuart Ward, and an extended panel session with questions from the audience. Peter Thomson on the changing world of work Peter Thomson is a […]

NetIKX Blog for September 2017: Lesson Learning

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It was a full house for this seminar with Chris Collison – a very popular speaker who has presented to NetIKX on a variety of topics in the past. Lesson learning is an important issue for practitioners in all sectors (even the freelancers among us!) and Chris drew on a wide variety of examples, including the […]

Taxonomy Boot Camp London

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A 25% discount on the fee at the Taxonomy Boot Camp London (17–18 October) has been negotiated for NetIKX members. See https://www.netikx.org/forum/netikx-member-discount-taxonomy-boot-camp-2017 for the discount code.

Developing Effective Collaborative Knowledge Spaces

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Conrad Taylor writes: During 2017, which is a 20th anniversary year for NetIKX, a number of eminent speakers have been invited to lead meetings, speakers who for the most part have addressed NetIKX before. At the meeting on 18 May 2017 the speakers were Paul Corney and Victoria Ward. Paul worked for 25 years in […]

The Implications of Blockchain for KM and IM

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Conrad Taylor writes: The speakers at the meeting on 6 July 2017 were Marc Stephenson, Noeleen Schenk  and John Sheridan. Marc Stephenson is the Technical Director at Metataxis. He has worked on the design, implementation and ongoing management of information systems for over 25 years, including organisations in health, central and local government, banking, utilities, new […]

Gurteen Knowledge Café – 16 March 2017

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Conrad Taylor writes: In 2017, its tenth anniversary year, NetIKX is running a series of meetings with speakers who have spoken to us before. In March we invited David Gurteen to speak around the topic of ‘entrained and entrenched thinking’, and other constraints on knowledge sharing – and, what we can do about it. Specifically […]

Survey Results

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Naomi Lees, NetIKX Membership Secretary writes: Thank you to everyone who responded to our NetIKX survey earlier this year. We had some very interesting and useful responses. Here is a brief overview of the points raised, and what NetIKX plans to do over the next 12 months: Programme Planning We had some very useful feedback on […]

Information Design, with Conrad Taylor and Ruth Miller

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On 26 January 2017, the speakers at the NetIKX meeting were Conrad and Ruth. Conrad has written up the two talks below. A fuller account of his own talk can be found on his Conradiator site at http://www.conradiator.com/kidmm/netikx-infodesign-conrad.html, as he notes below. Photo David Dickinson   For some comments on the meeting, by Claire Parry, see the […]

Evidence-based Decision Making

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Conrad Taylor writes: On Thursday 3rd of November 2016, about thirty people gathered at the British Dental Association to discuss the topic of ‘Evidence-Based Decision Making’, in a workshop-like session led by Steve Dale, who practises as an independent consultant as ‘Collabor8Now’. The NetIKX difference Before I give readers an account of the meeting, and […]

Blog for September 2016 Seminar: Connecting Knowledge Communities: Approaches to Professional Development

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Conrad Taylor writes: The September 2016 meeting of NetIKX was introduced by David Penfold. He explained that at this time in 2015, the NetIKX meeting about ‘connecting communities’ had heard from various organisations in the knowledge and information management space. This year, the decision to focus the meeting on training and development had been partly […]