Exciting news about KMWorld 2010! We will be on the east coast at the Renaissance Hotel in DC November 16-18, 2010.  Put the dates on your calendar and watch for more info on the KMWorld site.  The call for speaker will be up early in January at the KMworld site.

Patti Anklam, long time KMWorld conference speaker and participant, posted an interesting piece about three types of KM — big, little & personal.  She describes big KM as enterprise-wide which includes:

• Content management (including KM portals, search strategies)
• Consulting (to business units) on knowledge container and sharing methodologies, embedding knowledge capture and sharing into business processes
• Providing thought leadership on the application of KM to IT and the implementation of the KM infrastructure
• Innovation and ideation services
• Social software advocacy
• Key community (centers of excellence and expertise) support to build and transfer vital corporate knowledge
• Project materials
• Stewarding a collaboration strategy in support of communities of practice
• Providing learning and knowledge transfer opportunities through best practices, stimulating conversations that matter, and experiential learning practices for teams

I find that KM means different things to different people and I like Patti’s definition:  a “collection of disciplines, methods and tools embedded in an information infrastructure that supports creation and sharing of knowledge assets to achieve business goals.”  What do you think?

Patti mentions several KMWorld 2009 speakers in her post — Stan Garfield and Dave Snowden and says, “The continual flow of new methods, ideas, and perspectives is what keeps me involved in the KM community.”  The exchange of ideas, description of methods and practices, and perspectives will be many at the KMWorld 2009 Conference in San Jose, November 17-19.  Join us!

Andrew McAfee

Hugh McKellar of KMWorld magazine recently interviewed KMWorld 2009’s keynote speaker, Andrew McAfee.   They talk about Enterprise 2.0 — a “fundamental shift in the way that organizations can share knowledge and gain collective intelligence and ultimately increase the bottom line.”

Have a look at the article, join us in San Jose on November 17th for McAfee’s keynote at KMWorld 2009, and check out McAfee’s forthcoming new book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. Here’s what you’ll find in the book according to the author:

I start with four case studies about organizations facing challenges or missed opportunities, and hopefully those big challenges or missed opportunities will be pretty familiar to the reader. Then, I get into Web 2.0 and the significant improvement in technologies available for collaboration. I show how, in each of the four cases, the organization grabbed some portion of that toolkit and made it work, helped address the challenge they faced.

I present a framework for thinking through what Enterprise 2.0 can do for you and how to think about it. At the end, I present some guidance about deployment–once you’ve made your decision, what you need to do to ensure a successful rollout. The book concludes by looking into the future a little bit and making some hopefully grounded predictions about where all this is headed.

You can also view Andrew speaking about Enterprirse 2.0 here.

Charlene Li

Hear a podcast with KM World 2009 and Enterprise Search Summit Keynote Charlene Li.   EContent & Intranets editor Michelle Manafy interviews Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. They discuss leveraging social strategies in and outside organizations–and for search in particular. They also talk about Li’s forthcoming book on Open Leadership and how understanding how open your organization should be (and achieving the right degree of openness) will determine its chances for success in the future.  Join Charlene in person at KMWorld 2009, Wednesday Nov 19 in San Jose.

The KnowledgeWorks Foundation has set created “a tool, [2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning] for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade.”  With the theme of KMWorld 2009, Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & Knowledge,  and many sessions around Enterprise 2.o, you make want to check out one of the “drivers of change” sections — Amplified Organization/s: Extended human capacity remakes the organization.  There is also a section on Open Leadership & Socialability: A Trend of the Amplified Organization which includes a video of Chuck House, executive Director, Media X, Stanford University’s membership research program on media and technology, who talks about the new skills needed for the 21st century jobs.

The 2020 Forecast webiste contains four types of info:

* drivers of change — major forces of transformation that will shape our efforts to remake learning

*trends — distinct directions of change that point to new concepts or new patterns of behavior that will shape the future of learning

* signals — examples, or early indicators, of the changes described by the trends and the drivers of change. By providing analogies, data, and explicit stories, signals help make the future seem more concrete.

*learning agents — new roles and functions that might emerge in the future ecosystem of learning

Nancy Dixon just blogged about A-Space, a Facebook-like space for the US intelligence community.  She mentioned this to me a few months ago when we were finalizing her participation in KMWorld 2009 and I’m really pleased to see the executive summary in this post and the full 30 page study here. It talks about how A-Space is shaping the analysts’ work bringing in cogintive diversity.  It emphasizes:

We are very excited with the great line up of learning and networking events for KMWorld 2009, November 17-19, San Jose CA.  Great  keynotes emphasize the theme, Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & Knowledge:

• Andrew McAfee, Resetting the Enterprise with 2.0 Collaborative Tools
• Charlene Li, The Role of Social Technologies in Search & How it Impacts Your Organization
• Thomas Vander Wal, Enterprise Social Tools & the Knowledge Organization

Exciting networking events are led by industry thought leaders:

• Nancy Dixon, Resetting the Enterprise: Perspectives & Conversations — Welcome Networking Event
• Dave Snowden, Social Discovery of Knowledge Management – Interactive Capstone Event

The 13th annual KMWorld conference faculty is populated by experienced practitioners, KM thought leaders, and industry  leaders.  The program is integrated with two other terrific events

• Enterprise Search Summit West
• Taxonomy Boot Camp

Check the links for more details and join us for great discussions about the essential pieces of the information engine that powers effective enterprise — knowledge creation, publishing, finding, sharing, mining, reusing, and more — enabling problem-solving, innovation and achievement.

Just read a good post by Peter Bregman, consultant and author, Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change.  He gives a great example about changing the culture of an organization with stories.  And for more tips on storytelling check out Steve Denning’s site.  At KMWorld 2009 you will be able to experience the power of stories by participating in our capstone event – Social Discovery of Knowledge Management which will be led by Dave Snowden.  Watch this space and the new KMWorld 2009 conference wiki for more details.

It will be interesting to see if Google Wave, a new tool released to developers, will assist in knowledge sharing and collaboration activities.  Check out the video and sneak peek and a good article from CIO magazine.  “Google’s newly unveiled Wave may be called a communication and collaboration tool, but it’s much more than that. Wave combines key trends that we’ve seen the last couple years on the Web into one elegant application. And it may make today’s enterprise tools such as Microsoft SharePoint look ridiculously complicated.”  It “mixes old technologies like e-mail, IM and online documents in a unified, socially-oriented view, could break down the traditional ways in which we compartmentalize and separate information — both as consumers and businesspeople.”  Looking forward to hearing how this tool might affect knowledge management practices at KMWorld 2009, Nov 17-19, in San Jose CA.

Published by HBS in the fall & you can hear McAfee speak at KMW09.

We are very excited about Andrew McAfee opening KMWorld 2009 and talking about resetting the enterprise with new enterprise 2.0  collaborative tools.  Andrew coined the phrase “enterprise 2.0″ in 2006 in a Sloan Management Review article.  This fall his book on Enterprise 2.0 will be published by Harvard Business School Press.   Keep the conference dates, November 17-19 in your calendar and join us for interesting discussions!  And until you meet him in person at KMWorld 2009,  you can follow Andrew on Twitter, Facebook, and his blog.