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Knowledge Management may very well be the Manhattan Project of the 21st century
While working on my internship for my master’s degree in Information Architecture Knowledge Management, I conducted an interview with Keith Davis, employed by the Army’s Knowledge Management division inside the center of cyber excellence, as a means to better understand the Army’s knowledge management proponent. Davis concludes the interview with an enlightened consideration, demanding rumination.…
Read MoreHow to Assess Our KM Needs and Find Appropriate Solutions
Kristen Summers works as a Grants Manager at Saint Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. She is interested in Knowledge Management in order to further her career in philanthropy. In her spare time she enjoys hiking with her husband and two dogs. You know the saying in the field of grantmaking, “If you’ve met one foundation,…
Read MoreWhat is ePhilanthropy?
by Edwin K. Morris In the world of nonprofits there is a little word that means a lot. It is philanthropy. The image above is the definition. It highlights the essence of why nonprofits even exist. Philanthropy can pack a whole lot of action in the meaning around an organization’s mission. This requires great communication skills and understanding of the organizations…
Read MoreKnowledge Challenge for Health Care
Guest Blogger Dr. Marvin Boren is a passionate knowledge management professional and forward thinker. Challenges Picking up where I left off, I will discuss some of the challenges or barriers to HIT adoption. It would be easy to compile a long list of challenges to the adoption of HIT. Nonetheless, I’ll limit my discussion to…
Read MoreSurprise, surprise, knowledge management impacts employees!
Guest Blogger CaseyAnn Salanova currently heads the Interlibrary Loan department and serves as the Core Team Leader at Schmidt Library at York College of Pennsylvania. Surprise, surprise, knowledge management impacts employees! What a novel idea, right? Not really when you think about it because where does knowledge lie? Within people. And employees—at least for now—are…
Read MoreKnowledge: The Library Revolution
CaseyAnn Salanova is a graduate student at Kent State University studying Knowledge Management and Library and Information Science. She currently heads the Interlibrary Loan department and serves as the Core Team Leader at Schmidt Library at York College of Pennsylvania. Libraries, unfortunately, are all too often viewed as antiquated as your grandmother’s chintz curtains. The…
Read MoreLooking Ahead – The HITECH Act with highlights
Guest Blogger Dr. Marvin Boren is a passionate knowledge management professional and forward thinker. I’ll finish my discussion on the information sharing and knowledge management initiative resulting from the HITECH Act with some highlights from the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 – HealthIT.gov (ONC, Office of the Secretary, 2015) released in October 2015 by…
Read MoreTransforming Healthcare through Knowledge Management
Guest Blogger Jacquelynn Seymour Jackie is a Sr. Project Portfolio Manager/Clinical Systems within the Information Technology Division Project Management Office at a large healthcare organization in Northeast Ohio. She is anticipating graduation in May 2016 with a Master’s Degree in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management – Health Informatics. She is zealous about the possibilities of…
Read MoreIf a tree falls in a forest. . . a sound engineer will hear it! OR Knowledge Management and the Live Event Industry.
Guest Blogger Charles J Korecki Charles likes to describe himself as an eclectic “dabbler”. He lives, works, and plays in NE Ohio. He is grateful to his wife and daughter for their unwavering support. by Charles J Korecki By a show of virtual hands, who has heard the ubiquitous philosophical question: if a tree falls…
Read MoreCommunities of Practice vs Traditional Student Approach: CoPs in Academic settings
By Guest Blogger: Lindsey Millan is an employee and graduate student at Kent State University. In her free time, she enjoys reading, roller skating, and spending time with her daughter. She is incredibly grateful for her husband Nate, who is supportive all of her endeavors. Over the past 10 years or so, higher…
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