27 of us met last night, and had a great discussion on SMIF.  If you were there, I trust that you enjoyed it.

Shawn has encouraged us to use this site to share more about what is happening with KM in Melbourne.  Among the other things I do at Telstra, I write a blog on the now we are talking site – a Telstra public discussion forum.  See it at Tech-know.

I started this with the intention of discussing KM issues, but with a sideline of looking at some issues around IT and telecom technologies, and how we interact with them.  It seems that this second line has actually attracted more interest, but it is probably the overlap of the two areas that has been most interesting – the relationship between knowledge and communication.

So, what’s the connection with SMIF?  Although now we are talking is a public site, a number of my correspondents are also Telstra staff, and I have effectively been discussing internal company issues in a public forum with people I haven’t ever met inside the company!

My day-to-day KM work covers a number of SMIF tools – I have mentioned some on my latest blog post that should appear later today.  There will no doubt be further discussion on this topic.  Technology aside, one of the best ways of getting the wider team in our Melbourne office together was to simply arrange a fortnightly meeting in a coffee shop outside our building.  No agenda, very simple structure – have a chat, and each take a turn telling the group just a little about our current projects.

So, do you SMIF?