January 2012 Seminar: Social Media – what next and what can we do with it?

Summary This was out third meeting on the theme of social media in so many years.   The speakers identified that the key to effective use of social media is to be clear about who we are trying to target and what tool or tools they would use.  They discussed the difficulty of changing mindsets within […]

November 2011 Seminar: What next for the web? – a look at linked data and semantic search

Summary This was a joint event, run with the Information for Energy Group (IFEG) and hosted at The Energy Institute.  The session addressed the issue of linked data and the semantic web. Whereas Web 1.0 might be thought of as ‘brochure ware’, one-way communication, and Web 2.0 has come to mean interactive, two-way communication online, […]

What next for the Web and information services? Linked data and semantic search

By Nicola Franklin Where is the web going?  That was the question the speakers at the 2nd November 2011 NetIKX seminar were aiming to answer.  This join event, run with the Information for Energy Group (IFEG) and hosted at The Energy Institute, addressed the issue of linked data and the semantic web. Whereas Web 1.0 […]

September 2011 Seminar: Developing our capability – A practical tool-kit for IM/KM practitioners and their customers

Summary Chris introduced the subject by saying that River Diagrams are a way to visualise the results from a maturity model or self-assessment tool, looking through the lens of knowledge-sharing. This: “provides a systematic framework for carrying out benchmarking and performance improvement.” Chris described knowledge management as a learning marketplace, with supply (of people with […]

Developing our capability – a seminar with Chris Collison

By Nicola Franklin Yesterday afternoon saw me crossing London to attend my second NetIKX seminar, which I was looking forward to after a very interesting first foray a few months ago on the topic of social media use in organisations.  On this occasion we were to learn about the use of River Diagrams in facilitating […]

July 2011 Seminar: Information Risk Management – taking a risk management approach

Summary We have no information relating to this session Speakers Liz Scott-Wilson –  Information Architect who focuses on enterprise search and document management strategies Patricia Bryant – Information Management Speaker.  Her specialism is risk management. Time and Venue July 2011, 2pm The British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS Slides No slides available Tweets […]

Defragmentation – the latest meeting

The third meeting of what began with the fragmentation /death on the CILIP LinkedIn Group last August was held on Tuesday 31 May.  The first two meetings, the second of which I wrote about on 24 February, were invitation only, but this one was open to all, and attracted over 70 people.  It was hosted […]

May 2011 Seminar: Making the most of SharePoint.

Summary This was a joint session where CLISG joined with NetIKX for an in-depth look at SharePoint: its value to organisations as well as the risks and disadvantages. Speakers Mark Field is Principal Knowledge Manager & Knowledge Management Lead at the Department for Education. John Quinn, James Andrews and Hugh O’Neill also supported Mark Time and […]

Knowledge management and organisational strategy – NetIKX March 2011 seminar

Another lively and thought-provoking NetIKX seminar took place on Thursday 24 March at the British Dental Association which is fast becoming our preferred location as healthy numbers of people continue to support our programme. Flooding at Trafalgar Square, power cuts on the underground and speakers stuck on trains gave us a few hairy moments but […]

From fragmentation / death to cohesion / life

In August last year Mark Field started a discussion on the CILIP LinkedIn Group which he called The Fragmentation Death of the Information Professions.  It attracted some 200 comments, and runs to around 29,000 words.   (You can find the whole thing at http://tinyurl.com/35bglbs, but you have to be a member of the group to access […]