Blog for May 2024 Seminar – Promoting public literacy – in which digital literacy is a key facet – during economically challenging times

/in , , , /by

Key speakers – Edward Jewell, Leader of Jersey’s Library Service and President Elect of Libraries Connected and Sarah Mears, Programme Manager for Libraries Connected and Interim Chief Executive of ASCEL (Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians).

Edward works to ensure the delivery of a first class library service relevant to the island’s needs with a population increasingly expecting digital to be the default.  A population which is under an ever growing pressure to learn new skills and a population that is changing in structure as communities grow more diverse and older. https://jerseylibrary.gov.je

Sarah works for an organisation that believes in the power of libraries to change people’s lives and seeks through the new Universal Library Offers to connect communities, improve health and wellbeing and promote equality through learning, literacy and cultural activity. Critically important in this is reading, information and digital opportunities. https://www.librariesconnected.org.uk/page/about-us 

There were two other speakers, Emma Bahar from HMRC, who spoke on Digital Ambassadors and another from NetIKX, Rob Rosset, who spoke on the impact of the government’s ‘Levelling Up Agenda’ on promoting public literacy in which digital literacy is so significant. From a wider perspective digital literacy is vital right across government to ensure that members of the public can access government services, find gainful employment, exercise their democratic rights and engage with their civic duties.

This Wikipedia article states that there are  11 types of literacy.  (Ability to read and write and digital literacy are but two). Key to all types of literacy is the ability to take information apart, engage with it and critically appraise it to make meaningful choices. Most interestingly, in the UK,  approximately 16.4% of adults or 7.1 million people can be described as having ‘very poor literacy skills’.

This was a hybrid meeting at the British Dental Association and online via Microsoft Teams

May 2023 Seminar : Does Knowledge Management need to change ?

/in , , /by

Summary

This ‘simple question’ was put to our audience in NetIKX’s first ‘live meeting’ in over 3 years. Our speaker looked back over 40 Information Management (IM) / Knowledge Management (KM) projects that he has managed in a 35 years plus career. He questioned whether KM processes and disciplines have helped or hindered the desired outcomes. It was an open session which encouraged discussion from delegates.

Speaker

Stephen Dale of Collaborate Now – http://collabor8now.com

Time & Venue

Thursday May 25th 2023 at the British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS at 2:00 pm.

Slides

Are available to NetIKX members in the members hub.

Tweets

#netikx118

Blog

Is written.

Study Suggestions

To follow

September 2022 Seminar: Conversational Leadership Café: Is this our Gutenberg Moment!

/in , /by

Summary

The theme of this Knowledge Café concerns ‘the Gutenberg moment’ when the refinement of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1436 had a massive impact on the world. Now, with the invention of social media are we going through a second Gutenberg revolution?

Speaker

David Gurteen is a keynote speaker and conversational facilitator. He works in the fields of knowledge management, organisational learning, and conversational leadership. He gives keynote talks, designs and facilitates knowledge cafés and runs workshops. In fact, David has facilitated hundreds of knowledge cafes and workshops in 32 countries around the world over the past 13 years. http://knowledge.cafe/david-gurteen
The focus of his current research, writing and teaching is Conversational Leadership. He is currently writing an online book (a blook) on conversational leadership.

Time and Venue

Thursday September 29th at 2:30 pm on the Zoom platform.

Slides

Will be made available to members.

Tweets

#netikx117

Blog

Will be made available.

Study Suggestions

https://conversational-leadership.net/blook/

July 2022 Seminar: Sparks into Light: Complexity and the Development Sector

/in , /by

Summary

Despite our best efforts at union, we live in a world of division. A world where competing political rhetoric causes anger and conflict ; where ideological differences lead to privilege, poverty, and discriminative stereotypes, and where mass media is powered by sensationalism and severance to sell. A world of power, discrimination, and conflict. But as human beings, through our very nature of being we have more that brings us together than sets us apart.

The Cynefin Company (formerly Cognitive Edge) has launched a new research programme: Power, Discrimination and Conflict, which focuses on the application of complexity-informed approaches within and across the Development sector. We learned about new research methods, epistemic justice, and new theories of change!

Speaker

Emma Jones (BSc, MSc) is a Senior Researcher and SenseMaker ® practitioner at the Cynefin Company, and leads the Power, Discrimination and Conflict programme. During her work at the Cynefin Company, she has led Sensemaker projects around the world within governance and policy, semiotics, health, mental health and well-being, domestic violence prevention, organisational cultures, and economic growth and social justice within developing countries.

Time and Venue

Thursday July 28th, 2022 at 2:30pm via the zoom online platform.

Tweets

#netikx116
@TheCynefinCo

Blog

NetIKX blog for this event.

Study Suggestions

None.

May 2022 Seminar: MS Teams – The Case for Information Architecture and Governance

/in , , , , , /by

Summary

This meeting was about MS Teams and, in essence, MS Teams are about communication (chat, audio/video conferencing, telephony) and collaboration (content sharing, storage, task management etc.). Teams is just one part of Office 365 which is a whole set of cloud business applications. However, before deploying Teams you will need an Information Management Strategy, you will need to create a Team and have a proper Teams architecture. Also, every Team has a Share Point Site behind it.

Speaker

The speaker was Alex Church of the Metataxis Consultancy.

Time and Venue

Thursday May 26th, 2022 at 2:30 pm via the Zoom online platform.

Slides

Will be made available to members.

Tweets

#netikx115

Blog

NetIKX blog for this event.

Study Suggestions

No study suggestions

January 2022 Seminar: Introduction to Radical Knowledge Management

/in , , , , , /by

Summary :

With the ongoing development of technology and its impact on every workplace in industry and commerce we must seek to radicalise the effectiveness of Knowledge Management by learning lessons from the creative essence of art and artists. In this way we can increase productivity and liberate insightful improvements to industrial and commercial processes by encouraging innovation.

Speaker :

Stephanie Barnes is an Independent Consultant based in Berlin, Germany.

Time and Venue :

A Zoom lecture held on Thursday January 27th 2022.

Slides :

Slides will be made available to members.

Tweets :

#netikx114

Blog :

A blog is available to members

Study Suggestions :

The following suggestions are made :

 

 

November 2021 Seminar: Writing for the Web: Perspectives and Practical Advice.

/in , /by

Summary

This meeting was an unusual choice for NetIKX, but it proved extremely wide ranging and informative.  We considered how writing for the web  is different from other content? What are the processes and principles guiding web content and are there any hard-and-fast rules to stick to when crafting texts for the Web?

These are the three questions that Teodora Patkova, our speakers, looked at in this webinar. Following her passion for making the Web a better text, Teodora led us towards a broader understanding of the Web as a new writing environment. She shared her experience with writing content for the Web as well as her academic findings, related to connecting with audiences online.  Using a fascinating set of slides which drew from a hugely eclectic set of sources, she opened our eyes to ways of thinking about web content without falling back into standard content production methods.  It was hugely stimulating, thought provoking and enjoyable.

We considered:

  • Why write for the Web: We learned Teodora’s perspectives about the web as a public sphere, the blog as a way for engaging in dialogue with your audience and about a new SEO ‘on the block’.
  • What to write for the Web: ‘Content writing’ is not necessarily a dirty phrase if there are good editorial requirements for content and high quality digital texts which can be found by search engines.
  • How to Write for the Web: We all took part in a hands-on group session so that we were able to think through and then write up: a product page; a blog post brief; and a social media share.

Speaker

Our speaker was Teodora Petkova, a content writer fascinated by the metamorphoses of text on the Web. Very much in love with the Semantic Web, she explores how our networked lives transform, and are transformed by, the expanding possibilities of the written ‘webby’ word. She has an educational background in Classical Studies and Creative Writing. Currently Teodora digs deep into words and concepts as part of her PhD studies at the Sofia University and her teaching at the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences.

You can connect with Teodora on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheodoraPetkova), explore her thoughts at http://www.teodorapetkova.com and read excerpts from her book on Web Writing The Brave New Text at http://www.thebravenewtext.com/. The book is also available on Amazon (only available on Kindle) at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brave-New-Text-Perspectives-Writing-ebook/dp/B07HQ5TYQ5/
Teodora is also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodora-petkova/.

Time and Venue

This was a Zoom on-line meeting at 2pm on Thursday 25th November 2021

Slides

Slides will be available for members.  They are high quality and very delightful.  Any member can ask for access to these slides, through the NetIKX document management systems.  Ask the web editor for your member’s password.

Tweets

#netikx113

Blog

There is a blog available here:   https://www.netikx.org/blog-for-november-2021-seminar-writing-for-the-web-perspectives-and-practical-advice/ 

Study Suggestions

Look at Teodora’s website, slide set or follow her on Social Media (see above for details)

July 2021 Seminar : Ethical Artificial Intelligence

/in , , , , , /by

Summary

What is ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI) ? In essence, we can identify three concerns/issues : “the moral behaviour of humans as they design, make, use and treat artificially intelligent systems.” “A concern with the behaviour of machines, in machine ethics” – for example, computational ethics. ” “The issue of a possible singularity due to superintelligent AI” – a fascinating glimpse into the future as computers might ‘take over’. Is this still science fiction ?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence#Singularity

This seminar encompassed important topics for Knowledge Management and Information Management  practitioners. Topics included ‘bias’ in the machine, in machine learning, in the content cycle, in the taxonomy, in the text analytics, in the algorithms  and, of course, in the real world. Critically, where do knowledge organization systems fit in and how can practitioners play a role in creating ethical artificial intelligence ?  Should companies begin to develop an AI ethics strategy that is publicly available ?

Speaker

The speaker was Ahren Lehnert  – Senior Manager, Text Analytics Solutions of Synaptica.com and he is based in Oakland, California, USA. https://www.synaptica.com/

Ahren is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University in the Mid-West and a post-graduate of Stony Brook University in New York.

Ahren is a knowledge management professional passionate about knowledge capture, organisation, categorisation and discovery. His main areas of interest are text analytics, search and taxonomy and ontology construction, implementation and governance.

His fifteen years of experience spans many sectors including marketing, health care, Federal and State government agencies, commercial and e-commerce, geospatial, oil and gas, telecom and financial services.

Ahren is always seeking ways to improve the user experience through better functionality and the most ‘painless’ user experience possible based on the state of the industry, best practices and standards.

Time and Venue

Thursday July 22nd at 2:30pm  on a Zoom online meeting.

Slides

Slides available for members in the Members Hub.

Tweets

#netikx111

Blog

There is a blog available here.

Study Suggestions

Ontologies and Ethical AI | Synaptica LLC

Ethics & Bias in the Content Cycle | Synaptica LLC

 

Rob Rosset 27/07/2021

 

 

May 2021 Seminar : The status of KM in 2020, and trends for the future

/in , , /by

Summary

In early 2020, Knoco undertook a third global “state of the art” survey of Knowledge Management. The results gave a snapshot of the state of pre-covid KM, and comparison with previous surveys allows trends to be identified.  Nick Milton, the director of Knoco Ltd has a fascinating insight into the survey results. He pinpointed outcomes that would give powerful arguments to KM professionals who need to persuade their leadership team and colleagues to take the subject seriously and allocate appropriate resources.  In particular, the survey results show that knowledge management has become more relevant after the shocks and changes caused by the pandemic.   The discussion following his fascinating talk focused on how we could use the new ideas generated for our own work situations.

Speaker

Nick Milton is director and co-founder of Knoco Ltd (https://www.knoco.com) with over 25 years experience in Knowledge Management.

Working with Knoco Ltd, Nick has helped develop and deliver KM strategies, implementation plans and services in a wide range of different organizations around the globe. He has a particular interest in ‘Lessons Learned Programs’, and has managed major ‘lessons capture programs’, particularly in the area of mergers and acquisitions, and high technology engineering.

Prior to founding Knoco, Nick spent two years at the centre of the team that made BP the leading KM company in the world at the time; acting as the team Knowledge Manager, developing and implementing BP’s knowledge of ‘how to manage knowledge’, and coordinating the BP KM Community of Practice.

Nick is a widely recognized coach and trainer, and has given keynote speeches at most of the leading international Knowledge Management conferences, such as KM World, KM Europe, KMUK, KM Russia, KM Egypt, IAPG Argentina, IKM Jakarta, KM Singapore and KM Brazil. In 2007 he was awarded ‘Lecturer of the year’ from Chalmers University. He was a member of the international working group which developed ISO 30401, the management systems standard for KM.

Nick blogs most days (www.nickmilton.com) and can be found on Twitter @nickknoco. He is based in the UK, near the city of Bath.

Time and Venue

27 May, 2pm Zoom on line meeting

Tweets

#netikx110

Slides

Slides for this seminar are in the Website Document Store.  You need a member’s password.  (Search with: May 2021)

Blog

There is a Blog for this month on the website.  It is an excellent report and has been written by Committee Member, Carlin Parry, and this report can also be found Here

Study Suggestions

You can find a copy of the survey’s mentioned in the seminar at Nick Milton’s website: www.nickmilton.com

Nick is the author/co-author of the following books:

  • The Knowledge Manager’s handbook;
  • Designing a Successful KM Strategy;
  • The Lessons Learned handbook;
  • Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects;
  • Knowledge Management for Sales and Marketing, and
  • Performance through Learning – knowledge management in practice.

March 2021 Seminar: Working during the Covid-19 pandemic: sharing insights and experiences

/in , , , , , /by

Summary This meeting consisted of  eight speakers talking for ten minutes each about different aspects of their experience of working during this time, followed by the usual syndicate sessions, where experiences were  shared in more detail, so that we can manage better as we move forward into a still uncertain future. Speakers The eight speakers […]

Read more