Had an excellent session with David on 17 Sep. About 30 or so people there – at least 7 of whom heard about the session on Twitter.

After David delivered his Twitter presentation, we moved into café format, with live tweets displayed on the screen via Twitterfall.

A couple of the highlights from David’s presentation:

Guide to the relationship building process:

1. Find an interesting person. 
2. Establish connection. 
3. Build relationship via social tools
4. Do stuff together
5. Go to 3.

Social Media Principles:

1. Share knowledge.
2. Be transparent & open. 
3. Be found & connectable anywhere!

Lots of other meaningful things were discussed, and shared on Twitter on the #kmlf tag.

We’ll be announcing our speaker for October shortly – stay tuned!

The emergence of Twitter as a powerful tool for conversation and networking

Please note that we now have a change of venue and time for our event on Thursday next week, 17 Sep:

When: Thursday September 17, 6:30 – 8:00pm (note updated start time)
Where: Room 108.8.19, RMIT Business School, 239 Bourke St, Melbourne – (note new venue – near the corner of Swanston St – take lift to Level 8).
RSVP: melbournekmlf@gmail.com

Agenda

6:30-7:00 David Gurteen – The emergence of Twitter, and intro to the Knowledge Café discussion
7:00-7:45 Knowledge Café discussion to share collective knowledge, ideas and insights (over drinks and nibbles).
7:45-8:00 Informal conversation amongst the group to further explore the ideas and concepts

Please refer to the original post (now updated) for all other details.

Some info from our previous meetings, notice of future events, and other updates. 

Knowledge Integration or Corporate Disintegration?

You can now download Bill Hall’s slide pack from the 26 August session.

Adaptive Leadership for Turbulent Times

Dave Snowden’s special session on 30 July was based on two earlier sessions. You can access the slide pack and a podcast of his session at the Civil Service College in Singapore on the Cognitive Edge site.  A shortened version of this was delivered to the IPAA in Melbourne on the same day as our presentation – the slide pack and podcast of this are also available at Cognitive Edge.

Leading Successful Knowledge Initiatives – Enhancing personal and organisational performance with embedded knowledge flows

As advised earlier by email, our own Arthur Shelley is delivering a two-day KM Masterclass for Ark Group in Melbourne on 28-29 October.  It will be at the Novotel Melbourne on Collins, and will feature a series of interactive conversations, supported by practical exercises to help you build your own knowledge-based strategy.

 As usual, a discount applies for Melbourne KMLF members. For all details, please refer to the online brochure. (We also have printed copies of this available at our meetings.)

Nancy White in November

We are in the early stages of planning for Nancy White to address us while she is in town.  Please keep the evening of Monday 16 November clear for now – more details later.  See the Full Circle Associates blog for more info about Nancy.

While she is here in November, Nancy will also be undertaking a series of workshops across Australia, in partnership with Innotecture (Matt Moore’s company) . I highly recommend this!  (Disclaimer: I am assisting  Matt with the Melbourne session.)

The Australian Collaboration Software Report

A reminder – if you are in Australia, and currently using collaborative software, or planning to acquire it, please fill out the survey at http://tinyurl.com/ozcollab now! This will give you the opportunity to benchmark your experience against that of others.  Read more about the survey on the OzCollab blog here; and our preliminary findings here.

(This initiative is being conducted by Matt Moore of Innotecture and myself).

Get the Buzz

Although the KMLF is mostly about the face-to-face meetings, you can follow some news and join the online discussion via our LinkedIn group – Melbourne KMLF. 

You can also check what’s going on by following the Twitterers amongst, or by searching for #kmlf on Twitter, or searching on #hashtags. (Results may vary!)

The emergence of Twitter as a powerful tool for conversation and networking

For this month, we have moved from our regular schedule to have a single event for the month to coincide with David Gurteen’s visit to our shores. 

David will speak to us on how Twitter is making its mark in KM, and in both business and personal life.  After the presentation, David will then lead a Knowledge Café activity on this topic, enabling some rich conversations. A Knowledge Café is:

“A facilitated mini-workshop, where the participants engage in open conversation on a topic of mutual interest. It is about networking, knowledge sharing and learning from each other.  The outcome for the participants is what they take away as individuals that they can act on and do differently – immediately!”

When: Thursday September 17, 6:30 – 8:00pm (note updated start time)
Where: Room 108.8.19, RMIT Business School, 239 Bourke St, Melbourne – (note new venue – near the corner of Swanston St – take lift to Level 8).
RSVP: melbournekmlf@gmail.com

Agenda

6:30-7:00 David Gurteen – The emergence of Twitter, and intro to the Knowledge Café discussion
7:00-7:45 Knowledge Café discussion to share collective knowledge, ideas and insights (over drinks and nibbles).
7:45-8:00 Informal conversation amongst the group to further explore the ideas and concepts.

David Gurteen

David has over 30 years’ experience working in high technology industries. Today he works as an independent facilitator to help people achieve results through innovating, sharing, learning and working more effectively together.  David is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global learning network of over 15,000 people in 154 countries who share and learn from each other and who strive to see the world differently, think differently and act differently. He is well known for his Gurteen Knowledge Cafés and Knowledge Sharing workshops that he runs regularly in London and around the world.

This will be another joint session with the VPS-CIN and the KM Round Table.  We will return to our normal schedule of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month next month, on 28 October.