[Sigkm-l] SIG-KM for ASIST

[Deborah Swain]

Hi, ASIS&T members and SIG/KM participants --

I have good news. Two panels that we are sponsoring will be part of ASIST 
2006!  The "Virtual Communities & Social Networks" and the "Innovations in 
Knowledge Management" panels will be presented. I want to thank the 
organizers, Qiping Zhang and Anne Rogers, for working so hard. (The latter 
panel is co-sponsored by SIG-MGT.) Final drafts of topic descriptions are 
due this week. Thank you in advance, Anne and Qiping, for coordinating the 
efforts and responding to reviewers.

Everyone, please plan to attend November 3-9 in Austin and then come to our 
SIG-KM panels!!!

I also want to thank other submitters of papers and panels on KM. I was 
disappointed to discover that two of our panels were not accepted but only 
hope we can continue to show all our ASIST colleagues the value that KM adds 
to Information Science in terms of both research and real world 
applications. I sense a "chicken vs. the egg" dilemma affecting some views 
of KM. Personally I believe universities need KM educational programs and 
businesses need to use KM in organizational design. But we will just have to 
discuss these issues in future panels --let's plan on it!

Thank YOU for keeping KM growing. Let me know if you want to do anything 
extra in Austin. We can call a special meeting in addition to the schedules 
times. Let me know. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Regards, Deborah Swain
p.s.If you are going to the ICKM July 31-August 2 in Greenwich/London, let 
us know. I plan to go.

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