[Sigkm-l] Reminder and Invitation to Contribute to SIG/KM

[Deborah Swain]

Hi, ASIS&T members and SIG/KM participants --
Have you written your paper or panel proposal yet for the 2006 ASIST 
Conference in Austin?!! The due date is February 13 for panels and long, 
contributed papers. So you have just two weeks!@?!! Friends and colleagues, 
now is the time to write to me of interests and to prepare your submissions.

We want KM well represented. How can I help you? I have done posters, 
papers, and panels. As SIG/KM chair, I have been working with folks since 
Charlotte to develop panels and to submit papers, posters, and short papers. 
Do you need a panel proposal template? Just send me YOUR panel or paper 
idea?

Or do you have a paper/presentation that might be part of one of these 
proposed panels:
1) “Virtual Communities & Social Networks: The Impact of Blogs on Knowledge 
Sharing and Social Networks,”  Moderator: Qiping Zhang, Drexel University, 
qiping at drexel.edu

2) “KM as Management of Ideas and Innovations,”  Co-Proposer/Moderator: Anne 
Rogers, Cargill, nanne_rogers at cargill.com

3) “Knowledge Realities: Emergency Management / Disaster Recovery," 
Proposer/Moderator: Claire McInerney, Rutgers University, 
clairemc at scils.rutgers.edu

4) “Collaboration and Cooperation in Knowledge Management Systems: How 
Organizations Do It.”  Joint panel proposal with SIG/MGT (management). 
Moderator: Bill Edgar, SIG/MGT Chair, bedgar at email.arizona.edu;  
Co-Moderator: Deborah Swain, SIG/KM Chair, swainham at msn.com
Possible presentor - Brian Detlor, McMaster University, detlorb at mcmaster.ca

5) “Digital Libraries as Knowledge Repositories,“ a joint panel proposal 
with SIG/DL (digital libraries). Co-Proposer/Moderator: Luz Quiroga, 
lquiroga at hawaii.edu; Co-Proposer/Moderator: Kelly Green, 
kgreen at vrs.state.va.us

6) “Developing University Studies in Knowledge Management: Course, 
Curriculum, and Program within a School of Information Science," possible 
joint panel proposal with SIG/ED (education). Developing a KM course: Dr. 
Deborah Swain, (SIG/KM Chair) SLIS, dswain at nccu.edu
Designing a KM curriculum: Dr. Robert Burgin, Associate Dean, SLIS, 
rburgin at mindspring.com
Proposing Doctoral program in KM: Dr. Irene Owens, Dean SLIS, 
iowens at nccu.edu

OTHER IDEAS???  Let me know.  (Note: Short papers and poster proposals due 
Feb. 25.)
Regards,
Deborah Swain

Dr. Deborah E. Swain
North Carolina Central University
School of Library and Information Sciences
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