Knowledge Management Toronto - Monthly Meetup

This is intended to be a new speaker series:

• running on the 4th Wednesday of each month, first one scheduled for January 28th
• focused on the problem-domain of knowledge management
• run by Stephanie Barnes, Martin Cleaver and Connie Crosby
• to be hosted at the Groundhog Pub (same as Wiki Tuesdays)
• Jimmy @ the Groundhog asked that we remind people to have food and drinks since they are not charging anything for the use of the room

Topic/Meeting Suggestions:

• What do you end up doing in a KM Project/Program?
• Why people don't get it
• Common pit-falls
• The balanced scorecard of KM
• How do you get people to change? (Change Management)
• Brainstorming session
• KM jobs/success
• Maturity models/sophistication
  • Internet 1.0
  • Web 2.0
• How other countries approach KM
• Technology lost/KM win stories
• Personal KM
• Motivation

Sources of information:

• KM World
• APQC
• Ark Group

Technologies often used:

• Social Media
• Enterprise IT
• Collaboration platforms such as: Sharepoint, ...

Task list:

• Stephanie to follow-up with Verity to find out about room possibilities
• Stephanie to send invite to Chun Wei Choo to see if he would be our first speaker
• Connie to draft email for Stephanie to send to Chun Wei and other speakers
• Martin to set-up wiki page for us all to capture notes and share info as we get organized