The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) wants you to recruit your friends for membership. This is one of those times that you benefit from having so many friends because the division member with the most recruits wins prizes!
Expert System has been selected in the 11th annual edition of KMWorld magazine's list of "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management." Their inclusions was attributed to their semantic software that searches, discovers, classifies and interprets text information.
“ANSI Course 287, The American Way” will be held March 30, 2011 and will provide an in-depth look at U.S. voluntary consensus standardization and ANS development process.
Sixty CIOs and IT leaders gathered together to learn from their peers about how to transform their organization into a service oriented organization and how to run their department like a stand-alone business. At the end of all the presentations, five best practices were indentified and taxonomy development was first on the list. Are you really surprised? We weren’t.
One author lists his three wishes for the new year in regards to performance management. How many are on your list as well?
There are several exciting educational opportunities available this year for professionals to enhance their skills and topical knowledge. Take a moment to review the event descriptions to find the one(s) that fill your needs.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Dame Wendy is the first person from outside North America to hold this position in the ACM’s 60-year history.
Words of encouragement mixed with some motivational challenge for SLA members came from James King, the 2010 President of the Washington, DC Chapter and long-time convener of the Information Futurists Caucus.
The winners of the KM Promise and the KM Reality awards were announced in November at the 2010 KMWorld Conference in Washington, D.C.