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Please
don't forget to book your place before March 14th for this
very popular afternoon meeting.
*The
power of social media to support knowledge sharing * on Tuesday 19th March
2013, 14.00 -- 18.00, at the British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street,
London, W1G 8YS.
In most
organizations there is a desire to develop more effective knowledge sharing and
a culture of collaboration, but little recognition of what this means in terms
of staff development and overcoming barriers to change. The enormous growth of
social media tools and social/professional networks over the past few years has
created new opportunities and new challenges for people and organizations that
want to embrace this dynamic world of social interaction and fluid knowledge
flows. However, it is not widely recognized that collaboration and knowledge
sharing are skills and practices that rarely get taught.
Participation
in social media is something we may learn on the job in a hit or miss fashion.
Some people are natural at it. Others struggle to understand it. At the next
ISKO UK afternoon meeting "The power of social media to support knowledge
sharing", the first session explores social media tools and social
networks, and their context for peer engagement and knowledge sharing, and the
Internet as an evolving ecology. Speakers are David Briggs of Kind of Digital,
and Richard Hare of Flare Consulting, then in the second session, Steve Dale of
Colabor8now and Virginia Henry of UnLtd <http://unltd.org.uk/>
(The Foundation for Social
Entrepreneurs)
will describe new roles and skills, and overcoming barriers to knowledge
sharing and building a culture of trust. The afternoon will end with a Panel
Q&A session followed by wine and nibbles.
You will
find the programme and other details of the event, and can register until March
14th via the ISKO site http://www.iskouk.org/events/social_networking_March2013.htm.
The event is *free* to ISKO members and to full-time students.
The fee
for non-members is just *£40*. All fees must be paid in advance
- there
is no provision for payment on arrival. Registration opens at
*1.30*
and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any
colleagues who may be interested.
Our AGM
precedes the meeting at 1pm; Members are urged to attend and non-member
observers are welcome.
ISKO is
a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of
promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization,
within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded
in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing
audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm)
as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm)
last year. Its third conference is planned for July 2013 on the general theme
of "Knowledge organization -- pushing the boundaries"
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.
Hoping
to see you there,
Anna
Harvey
ISKO UK
publicity
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