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.
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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