Yesterday the day was filled with presentations. It's hard to summarise here, or I need more time, so I'll quickly give a first impression. My experience is that I need time to let it all sink. Presentations that don't seem interesting at first sight, may suddenly sound far more relavant later.
The day started with two keynote presentations. The first by Tom Stewart, who talked about knowledge-driven enterprises, what has changed and where are we going. I had high expectations of this presentation and I wasn't disappointed. Tom was engaging, sometimes funny and had an interesting start of the day. The second presentation was by NASA Langley Information Manager Majula Ambur. She explained the situation at Langley where engineers couldn't find what they were looking for and about the internal Google search tool that made the searching much easier. Interesting but I don't know why this is a keynote presentation.
Then a series of presentations started, some interesting and some less than expected. The final two session made up for the rest of the day, first from people from Shell and finally a session by Richard McDermott about how to think like an expert.
This conference is a mix of knowledge management, taxonomy and Sharepoint sessions (not like KM Europe that was purely focused on KM). I only attend the KM sessions but find that many of the people I talk to are interested in Sharepoint (we use something else).
I realise I listen with the idea that I want to bring back home something, ideas or "how to" practices. Sometimes it's hard to translate something that is said to a big organization. "Talk to the C.. and tell ... " doesn't sound like an option for me, or "Involve your customers" (all the millions of users?). Anyway, I need time to 'translate' this to my situation. But now I have to go, a new day starts at the conference!
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