[Neasis-l] SLABoston / Boston KM Forum Knowledge Symposium

[Nancy Akin]

*Please excuse the cross-posting*

You can still register for the Knowledge Symposium at Bentley College this Thursday, April 29, 2010. Register here:
http://s94896443.onlinehome.us/tinc?key=t0p0UHsg&formname=reg_bentley

Come participate in lively discussions on relevant topics that SLA Boston and Boston KM Forum members contributed earlier this year. Discussions emphasize current information and knowledge management issues that you're facing including:

Avoid future crisis - How can business and application process documentation be kept up-to-date and in sync? (Technology-based
projects, methods and practices evolve, change and expand) Presenter:
Sadie Van Buren, Consulting Manager, Burntsand with Glynys Thomas,
Parthenon Group (moderating)

Social networking redo - How can a failed collaboration implementation
be successfully re-launched? (a pharmaceutical company case) Carol
Rozwell, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Social software and collaboration,
Gartner, Inc. with Sue Newell, Cammarata Professor of Management,
Bentley University (moderating)

Clinical practice experts online - What's the next step in a
collaboration infrastructure? (a health  care provider case) Dan Bogaty,
Project Specialist, Clinical Decision Support & Knowledge Management,
Partners HealthCare with Janice McCallum, Health Content Advisors a div.
of InfoCommerce Group (moderating)

Taxonomies - How can they improve enterprise search? (enterprise content
behind the firewall needs better search) Heather Hedden, Hedden
Information Management with Larry Hawes, Gilbane Group (moderating)

"Library/information management" and "knowledge management" - Are these
professionals' competencies alike? and Do titles matter? (information
professional positioning in the enterprise) Cindy Sullivan, Principal,
CSullivan Strategic Information Management, LLC with Juliane Schneider,
Harvard Medical School (moderating)

Records management, knowledge management, and information management -
Are they converging or diverging? (filling human resource requirements
and team building) Nancy Burt, Fidelity Investments Records &
Information Management with Jill Snyder, National Archives and Records
Administration (moderating)

For more information including directions to Bentley, please see the
Boston KM Forum blog: http://kmforum.org/blog/?p=640

For the registration form, go to this link:
http://s94896443.onlinehome.us/tinc?key=t0p0UHsg&formname=reg_bentley

Hope to see you Thursday!

Nancy Burt, SLA Boston Program Chair