We have talked about mentoring and involving students within our division, but instead....Christian Tomas approached us! He is a student in the Master's of Information Management at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, USA. He interviewed two fellow SLAers and included his own research for a final paper he submitted for a class in the spring. When talking to Christian about how he wrote the paper, he said, "It just wrote itself." This idea of sharing ideas as just happening is really the underlying essence of Web 2.0. If you start "doing it," it [knowledge sharing] seems to just happen.
Please note: This research paper will remain open to SLAers for 30 days. After that, we will close this report to SLA KM members only.
David Stern and Karen Huffman have developed a KM Expertise database
. In essence, it is simply a "bucket" for adding and sharing your expertise to fellow KM members. It takes about 10 minutes to read the instructions (or view the video) and add a short description about who you are and what you are best at doing within your role, or roles. We hope you will take a moment to complete the template we have set up to add your expertise. Please add your feedback as a comment to the KM expertise website or this blog post if you think we need to alter the template in any way to benefit our members the most. Remember...this database will not be a success with your input!
