Speakers for the January meeting: all about YOU

We have the following speakers confirmed for the January 9th meeting of KM Chicago, How Knowledge Management is impacted by YOU, Time magazine's person of the year.

Moderator: Jack Vinson. Jack is the past-president of KM Chicago and has been involved in knowledge management since the late 1990's. He's currently doing independent management consulting in knowledge management with a focus on helping organizations get the best use out of their people, information and technology.

PANELISTS
Brian Sobolak is the current maintainer of Chicagobloggers.com as well as a contributor to local webzine Gapersblock.com. He's been creating websites since 1996 and a regular blogger since 2001. By day he is an enterprise software delivery manager in the Loop.

Dave Elfving. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Dave spent 5 years working as a web designer in both the public and private sectors. He began at a boutique design firm (which, like so many others, no longer exists) and went on to develop web sites and online applications for the Chicago Public Schools and The University of Chicago. He has been an active blogger (though he dislikes that term) for years, and was interviewed by National Public Radio as an early pioneer of "audio blogging". Currently, he's finishing up graduate degree in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he studies web-based, collaborative technologies.

Barbara K. Iverson is a long-time multimedia maven and a blogger since 1999. She teaches, writes and speaks about blogging, citizen journalism, digital technology, and online media publication at Columbia College Chicago and around the world.

Iverson is the new VP for Technology for Association of Women Journalists(AWJ) and belongs to Media Bloggers Association (MBA,) the Online News Association (ONA,) Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE.0 She serves as advisor to the Student Satellite Chapter of Chicago Headline Club and is a member of CHC and SPJ. Iverson has written for magazines and been a reporter for Ohmynews.com.

Iverson's innovative use of electronic technology in teaching has been recognized by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS,) the Lilly Endowment, Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and J-Lab & John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She and Suzanne McBride currently have a J-Lab grant to develop an online community around citizen journalism in Chicago. Barbara returned recently from teaching at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) in Ireland where she was part of an academic exchange program.

Before arriving in Journalism, Iverson produced the first webcast from an American museum in 1998, featuring an interactive exhibit at the MCA by Miroslaw Rogala and an interactive CD-ROM about the Tuskegee Airmen in 1994. In her formative years, Barbara K. Iverson was a teacher for the Chicago Public Schools and subsequently elected to serve as a community member of the John Palmer LSC.

How Knowledge Management is impacted by YOU, Time magazine's person of the year

KM Chicago, January meeting
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
5 - 7 pm
Locations: Factiva (Loop), Allstate (Northbrook), teleconference. Details and directions in the sidebar.

Did you see the Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006? It was the collective "you," based on all the work you are doing to create content on blogs, YouTube, wikis and many other interesting technologies. Have you heard the buzz in the technology world about a second phase of web-based technologies that build off this stuff to create newer, better services for their users? This is the time of user-generated content and Web 2.0 technology.

What has this to do with knowledge management? Come to the January KM Chicago meeting for discussions of this and many other questions, and see some examples of Web 2.0 tools and services.

The panel will consist of several Chicago-based people who are experts in Web2.0 and have experience in knowledge management. These include Barbara Iverson, a Journalism & New Media Professor at Columbia College, and David Elfing, an expert in collaborative technologies and graduate student at UIC. Full bios will be posted here shortly.

KMChicago Holiday "Meeting"

When: Tues, 12 Dec; 5pm - 7pm
Where: Factiva, One S. Wacker Drive, 22nd floor
What: A rose' by any other name: wine tasting and 'snacks-onomy'
Who: Randy Russell, Wine Expressions, and Keith De Weese, Factiva Taxonomy Consultant
Sip fine wines and taste hors d'oeuvres as you learn about creating a controlled vocabulary.
Cost: $20 per person
RSVP: ann.lee@factiva.com so we can plan
Note: there will be no Northbrook location at Allstate and there will be no conference call or web session for this meeting.

KM Chicago -announcement for next meeting on Tuesday, November 14th 2006

Dear KM Chicago members,
we are pleased to announce the introduction of Knowledge Cafes to our service offerings for our membership.

The topic for the knowledge cafe of this next meeting on November 14th, 2006 at 5pm will be: "How can corporations combine Talent Management with Knowledge Retention ? - the challenge of combining deep business experience from long-time employees with the fresh talent of new employees."

As usual we are offering two locations to participate - Downtown at Factiva and in Northbrook at Allstate, as well as a conference number (877-393-3363, 19494780).

Knowledge Cafes are simple, but effective means of getting people together to talk and share knowledge about specific topics, following simple rules. If you are interested, a good source for more information about knowledge cafes is:
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/run-kcafe

Don't worry - its not about drinking coffee and its not sponsored byStarbucks (just kidding).

For detailed information and any latest updates, please refer to the sidebars of this website:
http://kmchicago.blogspot.com/

Thank you,
the board of KM Chicago

October meeting is at Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference

The October meeting of KM Chicago is the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference on the 10th, all day at McDonald's University in Oak Brook. The keynote speakers are Chuck Knight and Richard Flannagan, who will both be signing copies of their book after their talks. (Books come with your registration.)

See the announcement for details and registration.

Note: There will be no webcast or open phone line for this event.