A lot of people on KM4Dev and outside are wondering how (and if) to develop a KM strategy.

I faced the same issues a while back, so I started pulling together resources that I found interesting on this topic and turned them into a blog post. 

Sorry for the self-promotion here but the point is this could be very useful to many KM4Devers: …

Check out some more about these two events and why it's a great idea to combine the two (from the ILRI practice): 

http://maarifa.ilri.org/2014/10/20/oa-facilitation/

Feel free to share your own experiences and to join in the events for these two special events in the same week :)

Dear all, 



A number of CGIAR KM/comms/learning folks (Cristina Sette, Peter Ballantyne, Petr Kosina, Michael Victor and myself, under the lead of Simone Staiger and with inputs from a couple of others including Nadia Manning-Thomas) have developed a survey for which we would love to get answers from CGIAR folks and partners (involved in CGIAR events) by October 21:…

Hello KM4Dev,



We are now moving to the third topic of the focused conversations related to shaping the future of KM4Dev (the exchange has already started on the KM4Dev Dgroup)

If you are based in: 

• Ethiopia, 
• Burkina Faso, 
• Dakar, 
• Nairobi, …

Camilo Villa recently posted this very inspirational message about a little survey he did following the Seattle KM4Dev 2013 annual gathering (with full event documentation at: http://wiki.km4dev.org/KM4Dev_2013_workshop).

I couldn't resist but to…

Blogging has been one of the umost important activities in my life as knowledge worker over the past five to six years, both for personal knowledge management (to process my thoughts, curate information and analyse my work and surrounding) as for wider knowledge sharing with other individuals and institutions.

I would encourage anyone to start blogging if they haven't done so yet, and to see for themselves. However it takes some time and tips can help, so I compiled this overview of…

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

Cheers,

Ewen

(You can subscribe to the mailing list - where most exchange on KM4Dev is taking place - by sending a blank email to: join.km4dev-l@dgroups.org)

The thread is about "Beyond sharing: how can we encourage collaboration among network members?"

And here's the latest answer as an example - from Nadia Von Holzen (SDC):

Hi Ramya,…

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?

Hi everyone,

Following Nancy/Gauri's discussion and the recent Lucie/Charles discussion on 'moving away from knowledge products to knowledge sharing processes', here is a topic that is little explored but could have great potential in helping all of us develop an enabling environment for change, learning, critical reflection, sharing etc. This third episode in the new discussion series means that I will be collecting answers to the question for the next two weeks and then will provide…

This last blog post I wrote seems to resonate with quite a few people and I thought it might be useful for KM4Dev folks too... You can check my other posts in pictures on Pinterest or…

A lot of people, when they first join KM4Dev, either as they subscribe to the mailing list or to this Ning site, are wondering how they can contribute to it, what they can do etc.

This KM4Dev wiki page offers some options, any other idea or question you have is welcome to make these guidelines even more helpful.

Cheers,

Ewen

For some of us, KM4Dev has been an incredible source of inspiration, learning and action, whether individual or collective. Yet we have very little evidence of this.

As part of the KM4Dev action plan 2012-2013, we have a Learning and Monitoring (L&M) plan that aims at exploring what KM4Dev really provides its members and where it can improve.

This baseline survey is looking at various learning areas that matter a lot to understand how KM4Dev brings value. It…

For some of us, KM4Dev has been an incredible source of inspiration, learning and action, whether individual or collective. Yet we have very little evidence of this.

As part of the KM4Dev action plan 2012-2013, we have a Learning and Monitoring (L&M) plan that aims at exploring what KM4Dev really provides its members and where it can improve.

This baseline survey is looking at various learning areas that matter a lot to understand how KM4Dev brings value. It…

In relation with the focused discussion that recently looked at the kind of knowledge sharing activities that take place in our organisations (initiated by Gauri and Nancy on the Dgroup list), hereby a list of posts that relate to what ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) does in this field. 

All these posts are on our 'Maarifa' blog - a blog…

Shameless plugging here - let me know if it bothers you ;)

From my blog, I thought this could be useful: what is the portrait of the modern knowledge worker? 

I can think of a few traits and characteristics that relate to the desired gifts, skills and attitudes of such a modern day knowledge worker....

Click the…

(re-posting Sarah Cummings's great email about this)

Just wanted to let you know that the first Francophone issue of the KM4D Journal (2011, Vol. 7, Issue 2) is now online at:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rkmd20/current

In particular, we would like to…

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 …