The SLA Annual Conference is just a few days away! As the Program Planning Chair, I would like to take this opportunity to both highlight our sessions as well as thank those who gave their time, ideas, and support in planning a program that speaks to the various interest of our members.
Many, many, thanks go out to the program planning team David Shumaker, Maryhelen Jones, Dianna Wiggins, and Jeanne Trimble who contributed by developing great session concepts, finding the right speakers, and ensuring all was done within the time frames set down by SLA. I would also like to acknowledge and thank the other SLA Divisions who worked on some of these sessions as cosponsors and the KM Board Members and Officers for their feedback and insights.
Janice Keeler, Dianna Wiggins, and Jeanne Trimble formed a smaller group to work on the Knowledge Management reception that will take place at the Sheraton Hotel, Cirrus Ballroom, Level 35 on Sunday, June 15th, from 8:30pm to 10:30pm. Why not kick-off the conference by joining fellow attendees at this event! I was told that we do have a "room with a view".
In addition, many of these sessions could not be possible without financial support from our vendors. In alphabetical order, the KM Division is pleased to acknowledge and thank Dow Jones Factiva, Elsevier, EOS International, IHS Global, InfoCurrent, Inmagic, and Thomson Reuters.
Our program covers many interesting topics to include a "spotlight" session with Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge, who will speak about strategies, tools and techniques one could use to facilitate knowledge sharing within their organization, and David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge Management, who will talk about what a "knowledge Café" could mean to a group of people who have a topic of mutual interest.
Other planned sessions include: a sold out breakfast roundtable discussion, presentations about why you would want to use social networking applications, personal KM, informatics across the biological sciences, educating the next generation of knowledge managers, sharing knowledge with after action reviews, and to complete the offerings, what cutting edge KM activities some leading corporations in Seattle are executing in their work environment. To view details about each session, click the link on the left under Shortcuts for Upcoming 2008 Programs and Events.
In closing, we have already started to think about possible sessions for the 2009 SLA KM program in Washington - so please, take a moment to drop me a line (gibsond@mskcc.org) and share your ideas about hot KM topics and speakers or if you are interested in joining the 2009 "planning team."
Donna Gibson, Director, Program Planning, 2008-2009
News from Jun 14, 2008
