2009 has been a great year for KMLF (see events summary below).  It is the first year that we have offered events in every month (two in August!).  We collaborated with other networks (KM Roundtable and VPSCIN) to manage a larger activity and hosted three international speakers.  Participants have enjoyed a wide range of topics and formats and we have successfully kept the events interactive and conversation based. This has generated a lot of positive feedback and good participation throughout the year.

The KMLF organisers are very much interested in your feedback and participation (both face to face and on-line).  This December (Wed 9^th) we will be hosting a preview/review conversation about where KMLF is at and where we want to be. We will start with drinks and conversation at the Business School and then walk to a nearby restaurant to continue dialogue over dinner.

Please start the conversations with colleagues and feel free to share your ideas with organisers through any of the means below (starting tonight at the meeting with Peter and again with Nancy White on Mon Nov 16^th).  

You can follow KMLF activities and events in many ways:

Talk with other members at events is always best, but alternatives exist:
Twitter use search tag #KMLF

KMLF Google Calendar see future events (usually 4^th Wed each month):
http://www.google.com/calendar/render?gsessionid=F6HUGXAlSpyYoDAK4TxCbw

KMLF Blog for comments and feedback: http://www.melbournekmlf.org/

KMLF mailing group for all previous announcements: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/KMLF/

KMLF LinkedIn site for sharing comments and access to members blogs
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1981496&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Eanh_1981496

Events Summary 2009

Event	Facilitator	Topic
Jan	Arthur Shelley	Conversations as a Knowledge share tool
Feb	Andrew Mitchell	Productive uses of wiki in workplace
Mar	Helen Mitchell	Innovative team interactions (Second Life)
Apr	Matt Steel	COP’s in the wine industry
May	Stuart French	Social Tools for cultural changes
June	Judith Watson	Knowledge Degradation
July	Markus Feitz	Demystifying Complex Adaptive Systems
August	Dave Snowden (UK)	Adaptive leadership in turbulent times (KMRT/VPSCIN)
August	Bill Hall	Knowledge Integration vs Corporate Disintegration
Sept	David Gurteen (UK)	Knowledge Café (Twitter) Tweeted & responded to real time
Oct	Peter Chomley	COP’s A Personal Journey
Nov	Nancy White (USA)	Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities
Dec	Christmas Gathering	Reflective conversation about KMLF’s future over dinner

CoPs – a Personal Journey

The concept of Communities of Practice is well understood but that has not always been the case.  Peter’s journey in this area started in the early 1990s and is still progressing.  The role of the CoP in culture change will be discussed and its use to foster KM in organisations.  Starting as a technical project, the need to address culture change and the motivation of members soon became the key drivers.  This session will be conducted as a facilitated conversation, where Peter Chomley will start the conversation then will pose and answer questions to and from the audience.

• What are Communities of Practice?  How did we start then change the project?
• What was their relevance in four projects?
• How did they evolve in practice?
• How do they relate to KM? to culture change? to strategy?
• How have others survived their journeys?

 

Agenda:  Wednesday October 21st

6:00-6:30      Networking with other thinking collaborators (over drinks and nibbles).

6:30-7:15      Peter Chomley – CoPs – a Personal Journey

7:15-8:00      Informal conversation amongst the group to explore the ideas and concepts.

Venue: 

RMIT Graduate School of Business, 300 Queen Street. Melbourne

Lecture room 158.1.2B (Ground level – just behind reception).

Ample metered street parking nearby in Queen Street (between La Trobe and Little Lonsdale).

RSVP: by email to melbournekmlf@gmail.com

About our Guest Speaker

Peter Chomley is an independent consultant, sessional lecturer and PhD candidate at RMIT University.  His consulting activities range from project management training and assessment, cultural change and organizational development.  After 27 years in management and high level consulting, Peter “retired” to sessional  lecturing at University of Melbourne and RMIT.  In 1999, he was asked to join a couple of acquaintances in an internet services company. This resulted in a dot.com venture is business-to-business neutral net-markets wining contracts around the world in USA, UK, Australia and Asia. The company was floated on the ASX in 2000 and is still listed, albeit in a “morphed” form.  His recent consulting is in innovation and cultural change using CoP models, and in business intelligence/healthcare through India, Asia and Malaysia.  His PhD research has focused on elearning and more recently on the “influence of culture on knowledge sharing in innovation processes in a “trans-national organization”. He is passionate about the people side of knowledge management.