Reflections, space and sabbaticals beside the sea in Eastbourne

I do some of my best thinking on my daily ‘walk to work’. It’s a ritual I’ve followed from my early days as a commuter and I’ve found that, no matter what I am working on (or where), this reflection time is vital. I’m fortunate; I live close to the sea (in Eastbourne & LIsbon) and today as the tide was going out the scent of moss on rocks and seaweed filled the air.…

Fellow KM Professionals,

Continuing my exploration of building a community of interest in KM.  The attached slide provides you with a quick overview of what topic we covered at our last gathering.  We are working through a three-part series on KM strategy, and I'm drawing heavily from my mentor Dan Kirch.  We will go through the third part in February after which I am hoping to do a video conference with some professionals on doing KM assessments of organizations.

Attendance…

To all who may have an interest.

We held our second KM CoP at RAF Molesworth. I have come to understand that my company actually has a quite robust KM COP as well as many other COPs.  These are connected via a tool called Yammer which the company uses as a question/response tool.  It does allow for fairly rapid responses and aligns with many best practices identified in KM.  Additionally, I had but one other individual attend the event, so, perhaps, this may be a purposeless…

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This question came up in a discussion I had with a public body in Austria serving its (also public) clients with advice and knowledge: is it possible to measure how extensive and deep their experts are making use of information collection about their customers before they enter exchange with them?

In case these experts would enter some preparations by doing deeper search before they meet their customer, this would save considerable time for both sides. 

I should say that this…

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In every year there are huge production of crops and vegetables in many countries. Developed countries utilize all of their production, but it is difficult for the developing and underdeveloped countries. Poor economy, lack of proper planning, corruptions, waste of money, political unrest etc. are the main obstacles for those countries.

In Bangladesh, every year, farmers…

Hi all,

For those who missed it, we had a very insightful session on launching and managing a Community of Practice at the monthly KMA DC meet-up. The presentation is now available online:

How to make your Community of Practice a Success - Based on the Behavior Change CoP at the World Bank

Be sure to sign up to the…

Hereby some of the messages exchanged until now. Follow the rest on: KM4Dev

Cheers,

Ewen

After six wonderful years of engagement with KM4Dev, I decided to pay a tribute to it and to explain what it gives me and what I give back to it.

http://km4meu.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/a-tribute-to-km4dev-what-i-took-and-what-i-give/

Perhaps some inspiration for you too?

Recently in Bangladesh, some agricultural farmers showed their agitation against the government by through tons of paddy in the main road of capital city. The cause of their grief was that, they couldn’t make profit by selling paddy due to the high production costs and also excess production of paddy in this year. In last winter some vegetable farmers also through tons of…

In April 2010, IFAD and FAO launched a joint programme to provide people working on poverty reduction projects, with the skills and tools required to gather and share knowledge gleaned from their projects. Different workshops in knowledge sharing techniques, writing effectively for different audiences, and systematisation were held in 2011.

The last workshop was a "training of trainers" session, which specifically aimed to upscale the whole process. Participants of…

It’s amazing how the process of answering simple questions can help you uncover so much complexity. It’s rather like a child lifting a large stone to reveal all kinds of creep crawly things that they never knew existed. Unfortunately, when developing a Theory of Change (ToC) we don’t have the choice, like children, to leave those things alone we don’t like the look of. Developing a ToC gives us the opportunity to address problems, complexity, and opportunities that exist…

The original list was brainstormed on the KM4Dev mailing list and compiled (now fully available) on Gauri Salokhe's blog: http://gaurisalokhe.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-knowledge-management-book-for.html

(From Gauri's blog)

Recently, @jschunter asked a question on the …

International Fund for Agricultural Development, India Country Office had organized workshop on Integration of Gender,  Knowledge Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation for enhanced project performance under LEWI Grant on November, 1-4, 2011 at New Delhi. The main objective of the workshop was to enhance project performance and integrate thematic areas i.e. Gender, Knowledge Management with a robust Project Monitoring and evaluation system. 

More Details can be obtained from…

We have developed the following list of resources for those researchers and organisations looking to develop a ‘theory of change’ for their work. As we recently announced on R2A all new DFID-funded Research Programme Consortia are required to develop a theory during their inception phase. We will add to this list overtime as we become aware of other resources. If you think we have missed something that would be useful to others please let us know.

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Africa is perhaps the most culturally imaginative and creative region in the world. It is extremely diversified, rich in talents and ingenuity with unlimited

resources and potential. It has colonized the planet and it enriches humanity

through inimitable arts. Yet, one African out of two lives in dismal human conditions.

And despite spectacular progress here and there, it also remains profoundly…