*The power of social media to support knowledge sharing *
Tuesday 19th March 2013, 14.00 – 18.00,
/British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS/

There is a desire to develop more effective knowledge sharing and a 
culture of collaboration in most organizations, 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 recognised that collaboration and 
knowledge sharing are skills and practices that rarely get taught. It's 
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.

In the second session, Steve Dale of Colabor8now and Virginia Henry of 
UnLtd (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 
<http://www.iskouk.org/events/social_networking_March2013>. 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. We hope to see you there. 
Our AGM precedes the meeting at 1pm, all members are most welcome.

*ISKO *
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/.

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