Entries by Alison

Blog for September 2013: Embedding knowledge capture & retention

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On Wednesday I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Karen McFarlane who is Head of Profession, Knowledge & Information Management (KIM) for the UK Government’s Civil Service. I’d been invited as a guest by NetIKX as a precursor to a talk I am giving there early in 2014. And with due permission (Karen’s ‘day job’ […]

Blog report: Managing change seminar, 13 May 2013

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A report on the latest NetIKX seminar on Managing change, held in London on 13 May 2013. Our speakers were Lesley Trenner, Change Coach and Janet Kaul, Knowledge Officer, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. The successful management of change is essential for organisations in order to achieve positive outcomes when implementing new or revised policies, procedures […]

Digital native or digital immigrant – does it matter?

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Karen Blakeman and Graham Coult, 28 January 2013 #NetIKX59 The first seminar of NetIKX’s new 2013-2015 programme looked at the issues we all face in a technology-driven world.  It combined two of our key themes: harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, and developing and exploiting information and knowledge assets and resources. Karen Blakeman – […]

Blog for January 2013: Digital native or digital immigrant?

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The first seminar of NetIKX’s new 2013-2015 programme looked at the issues we all face in a technology-driven world.  It combined two of our key themes: harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange and developing and exploiting information and knowledge assets and resources. The first speaker was Karen Blakeman from the RBA Information services, talking […]

January 2013 Seminar: Born digital or Digital native?

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Summary This meeting was a lively and engaging session. We heard from Karen Blakeman and Graham Coult who spoke about the way technology is changing lives through the perspective of the differences that our individual experience will provide.  The idea that a ‘digital native’ will be confident and well informed about the implications of new […]

November 2012 Seminar: Maximizing knowledge – sharing information conversationally through podcasts and social media

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Summary In this NetIKX workshop we heard how Helen led her team at A.T.Kearney in developing an innovative series of podcasts, providing a new, more conversational way of knowledge transfer for staff and potential customers. She has been able to quantify the number of podcast downloads using Google Analytics. The podcasts are easily exceeding their […]

Maximizing knowledge – sharing information conversationally through podcasts and social media, Helen Clegg, 7 November 2012

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Blog by Emily Heath. At our latest NetIKX workshop we heard how Helen led her team at A.T.Kearney in developing an innovative series of podcasts, providing a new, more conversational way of knowledge transfer for staff and potential customers. A.T.Kearney is an international management consultancy with about 2,700 consultants. There are four staff in the […]

NetIKX seminar report – ‘Ensuring business value and cost-effectiveness’, 25 September 2012

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Blog by Emily Heath. One of our five key themes in NetIKX’s 2010-2012 seminar framework has been ensuring business value and cost effectiveness in everything that we do.  In fact it is such an important theme, that our 2013-2015 framework will be highlighting it as a key perspective to underline all our seminars. Our two […]

September 2012 Seminar: Ensuring business value and cost-effectiveness in what we do

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Summary Our two speakers at NetIKX’s September 2012 seminar operate in two very different sectors. However, both share a commitment to deliver value and ensure cost effectiveness to both internal and external clients, which gave them valuable insights to share with us on this important topic. Roger talked about gaining acceptance for KM within an organisation by making sure […]

July 2012 Seminar: Digital preservation – Help!

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Summary This NetIKX event had two speakers giving contrasting case studies on digital preservation. A wide variety of issues were raised for general discussion at the end of the event. Speakers Mark Merifield, works at the National Archives, as Manager of Records Information Services. Mark Provides advice, training and guidance to Central Government on the […]