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October 30, 2005

ICKM Comments

The ICKM Conference was last week in Charlotte, NC and what a wonderful city. Congratulations to the city planning officials for what they have done. We stayed at the Westin and the service and conference hosts were excellent. The conference itself was two days and was held in conjunction with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. There was some really great research and the book is well worth the purchase price. A couple of sessions that I will highlight is the Trust and Knowledge Management Session and the one on formal knowledge repository. These two sessions really had me thinking about the application towards my own environment and how trust and collaboration can be connected. Certainly, a research opportunity that I hope someone takes to the next level. The research framework here was excellent, in which the author focused on the levels of trust, tools, and level of knowledge success. The repository session was good since it provided a cross reference from repositories, standard forms, models, and maps. This information was then cross-references with the who, how, why, and who knows points of knowledge.

Each of the sessions I attended provided nuggets of value and all of the research papers are included which is something you do not get from a professional conference. Hence, is why I like to attend both types to be sure I am putting KM blinders on.

Posted by Todd at October 30, 2005 8:30 PM