KM Chicago August Meeting

With so many people out on vacation during August, KM Chicago will be taking a month off.  We'll be back on September 13th for the Midwest KM Symposium.  This year's event will be held in Cleveland, Ohio.  More information about this event will be posted soon.  In the meantime, more information can be found below in the save-the-date post:

http://kmchicago.blogspot.com/2011/05/save-date-midwest-km-symposium-2011.html

Cruise the River with KM Chicago July 12!

Please join your KM Chicago friends and colleagues on Tues, July 12, at the base of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue (400 N. Michigan) for the 6 PM combined river and lake architectectural cruise. The narrated cruise is 90 minutes and covers both the Chicago River and a trip through the locks into Lake Michigan. There is a cash bar on the boat.

Each person is responsible for purchasing his or her own ticket. We recommend online purchase at www.wendellaboats.com. These trips sell out in the summer even during the week so please buy a few days in advance to avoid disappointment. Arrive at the dock at least 15 minutes prior to departure. Purchased online, the cruise is $24.70.

Following the cruise, please join us for dinner at Catch 35. The restaurant is at 35 W. Wacker Dr. in the Leo Burnett Building, a few minutes walk from the dock. Reservations are for 7:45. Catch 35 is a delightful seafood restaurant with a menu to please everyone. Check out the menu and other details at www.catch35.com.

You can join us for the cruise, the dinner or both. No need to RSVP for the cruise. Just purchase your ticket and show up. If you will be joining us for dinner, please send an email to randyrussell1@aol.com with your name and the number of people. If you are driving, Catch 35 has valet parking after 5 PM for $10.

We look forward to seeing you all on July 12!

June 14: Jean Keleher on KM at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

At KM Chicago's regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 14, Jean Keleher will tell us about her work at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jean will discuss the implementation of the Bioenergy Hub, an internal collaboration platform for scientsts and staff at the GLBRC.

The mission of the GLBRC is to develop sustainable fuels; Jean's role is to make sure that the scientists working there can conveniently collaborate and share information.

Please join us to learn how knowledge management contributes to the development of technologies that have the potential to solve one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Save the Date: Midwest KM Symposium Tues, Sept 13th 2011 - Cleveland, Ohio

This year we will be holding the symposium in Cleveland Ohio at the Federal Reserve bank in downtown Cleavland.  The symposium will be broken down into three 2 hr. segments

Segment One: Managed by Kathleen Valderrama Contact at: Kathleen.M.Valderrama@clev.frb.org
Topics: Organizational Development, Motivation and inspiration, People, and Cultural Insights

Segment Two: Managed by Karla Phlypo Contact at: karla.s.phlypo@gmail.com
Topics: Processes, procedures and methods used to motivate, share, acquire, transfer, reuse knowledge and learning

Segment Three: Managed by Curtis Conely Contact at: cuconley@deloitte.com
Topics: Technology - old technology with new uses, future technologies and present day examples of successful uses of technology

Insights
Please send your topic to the appropriate segment manager.
Stay up to date by going to the Midwest KM Community Website. https://sites.google.com/site/midwestkmcommunity/
Insight submission are due by August 15, 2011.

KM Chicago May 10: Social Search Engines with Bill Chamberlin

Social Search Engines: Social media are a new way to contribute digital content, so we need better ways to search for this content than the big search engines offer.

The emergence of social media means a new and different way for people to contribute digital content. Likewise, it means we need new ways to search for and find this new content. The big search engines don't necessarily focus on finding this content. This session will provide an overview of some search engines that help you find information in the social media. At the end of this session, you should be able to:

• Understand why we want to search and participate in the social media 
• Understand what types of search engines are available on the public Internet that allow you to search social content.

About Bill Chamberlin
Bill is a 30 year veteran of IBM spanning a career in both Sales and Marketing. He has spent the last 16 years in IBM's Market Insights organization supporting IBM Marketing and Strategy professionals. He currently works as a Principal Consultant Analyst on a small team focused on helping IBMers develop social media marketing strategies. Bill is also a community leader, having built and managed the 1900 member HorizonWatch community within IBM since 2001. He is very active in the social media blogging and tweeting under the HorizonWatching brand name. Bill received his MBA in 1995 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has lived in the Chicagoland area his entire life.