The Knowledge and Information Specialist Society-KISS

Added by chris vestal, last edited by chris vestal on Jun 25, 2009

One of the findings of the Alignment study was that the term "knowledge" resounds more favorably with our clients, so why not add that into our name. Another alternative if the abbreviation doesn't suit could be "The Knowledge and Information Consultant Society" 

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  1. Jun 25

    Chris Zammarelli says:

    As I said with the KPI suggestion

    As I said with the KPI suggestion, wouldn't Knowledge Professionals International indicate that this is an organization about knowledge management?

  2. Jun 26

    chris vestal says:

    While it's true that knowledge management is just one small aspect of what we do...

    While it's true that knowledge management is just one small aspect of what we do, the term "knowledge management" is just our own professional jargon. Our clients/patrons/customers use the term knowledge in a much more general sense. One of the goals of the Alignment Project according to the Alignment Project Presentation (Part I) is to align our own terminology with the terms our clients/patrons/customers use (see the actual presentation for a good example). When we use the more general meaning for "knowledge" all librarians whether you're a reference librarian, an information architect, a cataloger, a researcher, or CI analyst deal with knowledge and information in some way. Another advantage of a  more inclusive term like this could be attractive to other professionals who don't have a library science background, thus expanding our membership pool (a former engineer that works as a researcher alongiside other researchers that have library backgrounds for example).    

  3. Jul 15

    Alison Verbeck says:

    I assume that "KISS" is a joke.  If we want to be treated as professionals,...

    I assume that "KISS" is a joke.  If we want to be treated as professionals, this is not the way to do it.

  4. Jul 20

    chris vestal says:

    It's meant seriously (please see my first comment) but you are correct that...

    It's meant seriously (please see my first comment) but you are correct that some could not take it seriously, that's why I also suggested "The Knowledge and Information Consultant Society" in this thread too. I'm not sure how much I like the word "consultant" though. I think "specialist" sounds better but then you run into the problem with the abbreviation.