Hello everyone, my name's David and......

...I trained as an architect, and though I loved the course I never had much love for being an architect.  Especially not one with a capital 'A'.

...I came to Taiwan to develop my teaching skills as there are many schools and opportunities, albeit in 'Teaching English'.

...being a techie in the office gave me more contact with others than any other role.  Who'd have thought that, eh?

And…

knowledge & innovation: can cultural assets stimulate innovation?

This was an interesting event made more special by a conversation over dinner with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the thinker behind many of Sparknow's early direction on flow.

I hope my observations and illustrations of how Pringle…

Want to know more about the Knowledge Management for Development Community (KM4Dev)? If you are at the ShareFair please join us at:

• Our session on Thurs 29^th September in the Dinning Room at IFAD at 14:00 “Building Knowledge Sharing out of Friendship: the KM4Dev Experience”. A handful of members will be sharing their stories of facilitating community and you’ll get a feel for how fun KM4Dev is.
• You may also want to join the KM4Dev Core Group and other members…

• In attempt to give impressions how will Knowledge (K) as well as Knowledge Management (KM) in 2012 looks like, we have at least four articles with “2012” taggings for social bookmarking to  explaining the K and/or KM related environment most likely will tend to occur from our version.
• We choose…

Dexis Consulting Group is looking for a mid-level Community Manager for a new community of practice for professionals engaged in the area of public-private partnerships that are designed to help align public and private resources, expertise and networks to deepen international development impact.  The position is based in Washington DC.  Please contact Courtney Roberts at croberts@dexisonline.com for more information.

“Many of the answers to major development challenges are already known,” states DFID in its Working Paper on Research Communication, “but the information is inaccessible, unusable, or unavailable.” With the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe presented on over four miles of shelving, the British Library for Development…

Oftentimes we get approached to help with pieces of work/advice that fulfill more than one of Sparknow’s founding principles in this case, work that travels; work that benefits the global community.

This blog pocket guide to story collecting complements one written by Simone Staiger Rivas in which she…

August, 2011 Top Content Articles of “Mobee Knowledge CoP”http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com

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1 Knowledge Management is SUBJECT, ALIVE and having CONSCIOUSNESS -…

Using stories and km to develop strategies

see how one CIO has taken the concept of user profiling a stage further by demonstrating how a new joiner might be inducted into the business and the technology needed in support of his vision of the future.

When?

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Duration: One hour

Starttime:

• 09:00 US/Pacific
• 12:00 US/Eastern
• 16:00 UTC
• 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam
• 21:30 Asia/Calcutta

How to join?

Simply follow the #KMers…

What have Lundy Puffins and Paulsboro Oil Refinery got to do with knowledge transfer? Interested, read on.
http://stories-and-organizatio​ns.sparknow.net/post/899619202​4

We are pleased to share with you our recent publication ' Developing capacities to realize the rights of children and women: selected innovations and lessons learned from UNICEF-assisted programmes." It is now available on UNICEF's public site along with other publications in 2011. If you have questions or…

Latest Sparknow blog blog featuring great examples of knowledge transfer from Barings, Pringle, Reuters and Standard Chartered. Produced in advance of an EU event in Faro at which I will be speaking next month.

I a currently preparing for an ECCI event in Faro http://ning.it/nwlYhL and a presentation Flexing the Imaginative Muscle:  how London’s businesses are using the capital’s cultural assets to stimulate innovation based on our knowledge transfer work.

We've been publishing a series of blogs on events we ran for Leeds City Museums.  The third and concluding blog will be available this weekend. The others which include our learnings on the role of space…

Hello all

Sorry for cross-posting. But I just wanted to make sure you had seen this invitation to take part in a study IDS is conducting with 3ie - if you want to take part, you need to sign up before 9am GMT Monday 18 July. All of the information is on the website, so check it out.

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