I would suggest considering a multiple set of candidate sponsors if this is the approach taken. William S. Kaplan, CPCM Chief Knowledge Officer Acquisition...
Stan, if you put all these presentations together you will have a nice book of readings. Perhaps that is something to consider. Over time, quite a bit of...
TO: SIKM Leaders Community Yesterday we held our 35th monthly call. Here is a summary. Attendees 1. Stephanie Barnes 2. Sushma Bharathi 3. Jim Coogan 4. Allan...
Hi Everyone, I was looking my profile today and noticed something new. My company has a company profile generated from our employees who are using the site...
Tom, Validas and others, I know I am late to this discussion, but having just gone through some experiences lately, I thought I would share: I agree that many...
There may be some learnings in the US government with its Intellipedia. Two CIA employees, Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, presented "From the Bottom-Up: building...
A better way to think of weak ties is as "bridging"; ties -- connections you have to people that run in different circles and therefore have access to different...
Tom, None, as far as I know. I am coaching several recently riffed friends in "network building". The only thing many of these professional outplacement...
Tom, One more tidbit on weak ties. A close friend and colleague from British Telecom once told me that your close knit group of strong ties will give you great...
Thanks, all, for your thoughts, pointers and insights. The Granovetter work was especially illuminating and helpful. Hadn't heard of him before - very...
Tom, Regarding the efficiency and requirements of working in two networks-I am familiar with those working in that environment as my clients. Both the US State...
Your experience matches mine -- with one notable exception when a friend and former boss recruited me to help him, every job that I have had came from "weak...
I have tried to provide some response to this question: -How do you avoid duplication of information on both networks? This is never easy but a few suggestions...
This is all explained in the book "Getting a Job" by Mark Granovetter. Written in 1974 it is very relevant today. Parts are very academic, but overall it is...
I wonder if this is a function of your strong ties (people closer to you) seeing pretty much the same opportunity landscape you do, and moreover knowing your...
Tom, I think you have just replicated one of the most famous finding in social network research - Mark Granovetter's 1973 paper "The Strength of Weak Ties". ...
I'm in the midst of job hunting, looking for my next position. One of the tools I am using extensively for this is networking - no surprises there, I guess....
OK, I don't see sociology as 30,000 feet only... but ethnography works for me! Anthropology works for others. The important part is the human social element...
Valdis, Instead of "The sociology is MORE important than the technology!" woudn't it be "the ETHNOGRAPHY is more important than the technology..."? All the...
You make a couple of good points Mike. They fit in with my experience with these issues. 1) NEVER let people rate their own expertise/ability/knowledge. Let ...
I don't think there are two different things here as current tools are providing these types of functionality in to a single application. The problem of...
Bonjour SIKM Leaders! I am a Knowledge Manager at NATO HQ in Brussels Belgium and I would like to get your thoughts on the following problem. NATO HQ is in the...
Hi Jim. I did a case report for Inside Knowledge magazine several years ago on a expertise locator system at Lend Lease Corp. in Australia that was NOT...
We have done many dozens of projects with social network analysis to locate experts, mentors, advisors, influencers. We started this work at TRW Space &...
Jim - I have enough grey hair to remember when social networks were the only way to find out who knew something. Only we didn't call it that then! And each of...
I'm interested in finding organizations that have solved the problem of expertise location. Who's good at knowing who they know? We old- timers in the KM...
I have been made aware of a Knowledge Manager role available in the Newport News, VA area. It is for a defense contractor and prior Navy and/or maintenance...
Hi Matt, Supporting the sales function is one of my primary responsibilities at SEG. I recently watched a tour on the SAVOGroup website. I found it via the...
Hello, I'm in the middle of writing an article (with Keith De La Rue) on KM in the sales environment. If anyone could point me towards any recent case studies...
