[Sigkm-l] Knowledge Management Events

[praveenkumar veeramalla]

Folks
We are planning to conduct a KM day this month end or in the next month which will include one full week of events and programs prior to KM day. The primary goal of this event is to make every one in our Global Business Unit aware of our Knowledge Management portal as a tool and to promote KM as a concept for implementation interns to mitigate following basic challenges:
§    Getting members to participate in discussion forums, wikis, blog of the particular community/contribute Knowledge assets
§    Attracting the Business Unit's associates to Visit their respective community
§    Keeping the community page's content current.
[Please keep in mind that our knowledge management portal consists of 70-80 communities each community representing a practice/process. Each community can have different project accounts i.e. hundreds of members may be participating in each community. We offered wiki, discussion forum, blog, polls, surveys, newsletters, news, assets, contacts tools for each community. Each community can have at least one moderator and leader from their practice]
We are primarily planning to start this event in each locations of our Business Unit in India and then be moving out to other continents of our Business Unit. The basic purpose of this event is to attract the attention of associates who haven't been exposed to Knowledge Management and to connect with associates at F2F level and to show our commitment for KM at various levels-individual, team/project, organization & clients. 
We are planning a series of sessions repeated in each day on KM week with each session consisting of 60-90 minutes events-a presentation, demo video, quizes, questions & answers ,Feedback. Give aways could be T-shirts, ipods & prizes for winners. We would be offering a stall and logistics for each community leader for the event to showcase their community at event to create awareness of their ones.
To create awareness of this program we are planning to conduct a slogan contest among the leaders/moderators of all the communities [Those will be used on T-shirts, Posters etc].putting countdown screen savers about the event at employees desks. Inviting success stories from the community leaders/moderators. We will then be announcing Best community  award based on our standard ranking system for a community. Poster campaigns [Mobile/static posters],T-shirt compaigns to engage the associates to events
If you have experiences of conducting such events please share your best practices, lessons learnt for such event activities on following stages:
§    Before the KM day event
§    During the KM day event
§    After the KM day.
Would appreciate the sharing of your exciting ideas,thoughts for such event
Look forward to hearing back from you!
Warm regards
Praveen Veeramalla
 
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