KMTALK ASIA

NASA once again shows how aggressive they are in terms of adopting to new tools and technologies. As one of the best practice KM organizations, NASA now launched their own facebook, called, Spacebook! I wrote about using Facebook as an Enterprise 2.0 tool in August 2008 here.

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It was the first time we had Patrick Lambe & Edgar Tan in Saudi Arabia. They missed the previous schedule as getting Saudi visa is not that simple. However, we managed to get the visa this time and we had an enlightening workshop in our organization. 22 of us joined the 3-day workshop, focusing on Project Learning and Knowledge Capture. As usual, Patrick’s workshops are very interactive, lots of team work and tiring!

I wasn’t so confident about the teamwork and interaction during the workshop as the participants came from various backgrounds and they are not doing any sort of KM here.

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I was thinking about how to create awareness on KM in the organization- there are many suggestions. Most of them centers upon creating KM slogan, logo, souvenirs, posters, having seminars, courses etc. Then I thought what about creating a KM Desk Calendar! A desk calendar which will have brief description about various KM methods and tools in every month. Straits Knowledge produced the KM Method Cards, which can be turned into a calendar - divide the page into 2 sections- i. the dates/days & ii. a brief write up about a KM method/tool. But this yearly calendar can have only 12 methods/tools being displayed. How can we make it richer in contents? Think think!  

LinkedIn became a lot popular since the financial crisis started – new people registering in the site everyday, current ones are updating their profiles, network etc. This week I have received 3 invitations to add. Visiting the site, I feel it looks like a nice job hunting site and a real challenger of Jobstreet,  Jobsdb, Monster etc. When I first registered, I used it as a normal social networking site, a professional one. But now, it is a popular site for job seekers. CIO recent came up with an article on how to best use of the LinkedIn site to hunt of your next job.  Check it out here…

How secure our ideas are in terms of protecting it from our prospective employers?
Few days back, an incident happened that made me start thinking how can we ensure that employers don’t steal our ideas during the recruitment process? You might find some interview approach where the employer would ask you to write a strategy plan, develop a marketing/change management framework or provide solutions to some of the critical problems that the company is currently facing. [Read more →]

Are KM people worth more during this time of world crisis? Some people say that it is the time when we are needed the most to tap tacit knowledge of those people leaving organizations as a result of retrenchment & downsizing. But then question arised, are those people who are retrenched willing to share their knowledge with the organization who retrenched them in the first place? [Read more →]