First experience..............

Challenging but it was so meaningful for the author...............................

Visited 23 students in 14 companies within 5 days include travelling time from Jitra to 3 different places(Cameron Highlands,the author chose last week period since my first girl was on leave from school since UPSR examination.....The challenging condition when find the place using google map{out of update) and Garmin is out of battery(using smartphone)...the reason was the road name was changed, the company no signage....luckily majority of my students was so helpful....I managed to find their places......The author got opportunity to meet with some of their supervisors means it may increased her confidence level to meet the 'big person' /somebody in the company since she know who she was....

Tukar topik sikit boleh?

Aku merupakan peminat siri penyiasatan CSI sejak bulan ramadhan yang lepas.....setiap hari pukul 7 malam,pasti aku akan mengadap tv sehinggalah siri2 penyiasatan CSI dan yg se'waktu ' dengannya berakhir, ianya tidak menentu, bergantung kepada tahap kemengantukan mata dan kondisi aku setiap malam(heheh kadang2 CSI yang 'menonton' aku pun ada...duk lena depan TV jugak tu...hehehehe)....Aku pernah kongsikan minat aku ini dalam entri blogs anak2 Ogos lepas.Cuma sejak aku menjadi peminat CSI ini, salah satu siri semalam agak terkesan kepada diri aku, selalunya siri ini hanya 1 jam, tetapi siri istimewa semlm-CSI Vegas 'Grave Alive', adalah selama hampir 2 jam...mulanya aku macam kurang berminat melihatkan tajuk siri tersebut( berfikir sendiri,tentunya agen2 CSI akan menyiasat mayat hidup ke mumia ke yang sewaktu dengannya-aku penakut cerita hantu...semalam cik abang pergi tengok bola pula tu..anak2 semua dah tidur...)....namun setelah 20 minit siri ini,aku baru menyedari bahawa salah seorang agen CSI(kebetulan agen yang aku minat pula tu...Nick Stoke....telah di'kuburkan' hidup2 oleh penjahat)...aku menonton keseorangan dengan penuh cemas, kesian sangat dengan keadaan Nick Stones..memang sangat men'suspen'kan..kadang2 aku hampir nak marah dengan rakan2 agen penyiasatan CSI sebab rasa mereka bertindak terlalu perlahan...hampir2 beliau(Nick Stones) mati digigit kerengga merah(red ants)dalam 'keranda'...namun akhirnya beliau berjaya diselamatkan oleh rakan2 agen CSI beliau....aku cuba membayangkan kalau aku yang jadi Nick Stones tu...huh...macam mati hidup semula....aku kagum dengan lakonan George Eads tu(pelakon yang membawakan watak Nick Stokes tu...) boleh menang anugerah Best Actor la.....hmm........

nampak macam takda kaitan pun dengan penyelidkan aku ni...tapi aku je yang tahu ada ke takda...sebenarnya secara tidak langsung memang ada..............dari segi 'penajaman' pemahaman aku terhadap apa yang aku kaji dengan siri2 penyiasatan yang aku ikuti ini......cumanya siri CSI ini ianya lebih kepada pendekatan positivism~scientifc investigation, apa yang aku kaji lebih kepada interpretivism~subjectivity research...apa2pun aku enjoy dengan minat ini...sapa pun tak boleh halang kan?????satu lagi siri penyiasatan yang aku minati iaitu~ The MENTALIST- siri yang lebih kepada pendekatan psikologi....nanti aku ceritakan di entri akan datang.......................

my latest 'horrible' workstation

Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 115 - January 2010

Dear Nor,

Here is your personal copy of the January 2010 Gurteen Knowledge Letter.

Regards David.

David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge

Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 115 - January 2010

Contents

1 Introduction to the January 2010 Knowledge Letter
2 2010 Annual Letter from Bill Gates
3 If traditional incentives can have a negative impact, what's the workaround?
4 Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas
5 The Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Webinar
6 Alfie Kohn, children, rewards, motivation and KM
7 ADVERTISEMENT: Certified Knowledge Manager Training
8 The end of mass universities
9 KM for Business: Managing successful KM projects to achieve business results
10 Knowledge Management video competition.
11 KM Event Highlights
12 Subscribing and Unsubscribing
13 The Gurteen Knowledge Letter


Introduction to the January 2010 Knowledge Letter (top | next | prev)

I know its almost the end of January but a very happy New Year to you all!

My website is now over ten years old and has grown to a huge KM resource of over 7,000 pages. Maybe just a little too large. So one of my resolutions this year is to review the whole site; remove outdated material and fix all the little bits that have got broken over time. I have already cleared a lot of junk!

One of the first things I am doing is updating the Annu al KM Conferences section and the KM Network Directory section. I need your help. Please check out both sections and let me know anything I have missed or got wrong. Thanks!

2010 Annual Letter from Bill Gates (top | next | prev)

Bill Gates 2010 Annual Letter is now live at the?Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website.

In this year?s letter Bill talk's about the importance of innovation for solving some of the world?s biggest problems and how he and Melinda see innovation as the factor that will make the difference between having a bleak future and a bright one. The letter explains how they decide which ideas to fund and talk about the benefits, time frame, and risks of each one.

If Bill and Melinda only achieve a fraction of their vision they will make a real difference in the world.

Also take a look at Bill's new website Gates Notes if you want to track what he is up to. He has also just started a twitter account and already has over 300,000 followers.

Makes my 4000 followers seem tiny in comparison LOL

If traditional incentives can have a negative impact, what's the workaround? (top | next | prev)

In this interview at KM India, I was asked for my views on "Incentivizing Knowledge Management". Well I explained the reasons for not doing it but did not suggest an alternative approach which was picked up in one of the comments by "firetangent". Here is my response.

So if traditional incentives can have a negative impact, what's the workaround?

First stop using them; they don't work and do great harm.

The problem with traditional incentives, rewards and talk of motivating people, engaging and empowering them etc. is that this approaches the situation from a mindset of "doing things to people". It says "they are lazy people; we know best and we will find ways of manipulating them to do what we would like them to do".

People see through this; they resist; they become cynical and it actually makes matters worse!

Here is my answer "Stop doing things to people and start to work with them!" Rather than "Hello I am here to help you!" (Oh yea!) Take the attitude "Hello, lets talk and see how we can better work together."

Its that simple!

But there is secondary issue here. Asking "how do we incentivise people" - makes the big assumption that they need to be incentivised. Yes, they may not be doing what you would like them to be doing but how do you know that the reason is lack of motivation. You don't. If there are problems then you will only find them out by sitting down and talking with them!

Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas (top | next | prev)

I have long admired Lilia Efimova's work on blogging. If you are interested in what it means to blog within an organisation then I suggest you read this recent article by her on Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas.

Here is a little taster:

Blogging is primarily known as an instrument for personal publishing, reaching a broad and often unknown audience without pushing content on them. While blogging is personal, most of its advantages are the result being part of an ecosystem, where weblogs are connected not only by links, but also by relations between bloggers. Those relations do not appear automatically: it takes time and effort before one can enjoy social effects of blogging. To sustain blogging before those effects appear it is important to find a personally meaningful way to use a weblog.

Credit: Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas - Lilia Efimova



This is something that many non-bloggers still do not understand - a blog is much more than a personal publishing tool!

If you would like to elarn more then take a look at her PhD dissertation Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers.

The Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Webinar (top | next | prev)

If you have not had the chance to participate in one of my Knowledge Cafes and have wondered what they are all about then I will be giving a 1 hour webina r about them for the Ark Group on 9th February at 16:00 GMT where you will have a low cost opportunity to learn a little about them.

There is a discount fro my community members.

Alfie Kohn, children, rewards, motivation and KM (top | next | prev)

I have a huge respect for Alfie Kohn and have been blogging about him since 2002! But I have only just thought to look on YouTube for some video clips of him speaking. Well, I got lucky and found several clips from which I have created a YouT ube playlist of clips from some of his talks.

Alfie demonstrates time and time again how our thinking is screwed up when it comes to the education and raising of children. This is bad enough. But the same habits and practices get carried over into the work place. We still try to punish and reward employees to "make them" to do what we want - even when there is no evidence that it works and plenty of research to show that it does not!

Daniel Pink has also been talking on the surprising science of motivation at TED.

ADVERTISEMENT: Certified Knowledge Manager Training (top | next | prev)

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The end of mass universities (top | next | prev)

I have long been saying that Universities are in for trouble - as why would a student get out of bed early in the morning to attend a boring lecture when he or she could watch one of the world's best professors on the subject deliver the lecture at any time of the day and night that they chose - maybe with a friend or two and a few beers.

This report that you can watch 120 hours of lectures on Physics by Lenny Susskind, for free on YouTube only confirms the idea.

KM for Business: Managing successful KM projects to achieve business results (top | next | prev)

I will be visiting Jakarta once again in March where I will be leading a two day KM workshop with KM Plus - Learning Lead on March 10 - 11. This will be the third such workshop over the last few years and I will be sending out more information to those of you in the region in the next week or so.

I have yet to finalise my itinerary, so if you would like to invite me to work with you in any way or if you would like to meet with me informally for coffee, lunch or dinner please get in touch.

Detail of the workshop is as follows:

Topic: KM for Business: Managing Successful KM Projects to Achieve Business Results
Venue: The Boardroom, Four Seasons hotel, Jakarta
Date: March 10 - 11, 2010

Target audience: Directors, Managers, Business Profesional, and KM practitioners.

This workshop is a series of KM-Plus annual International KM events, which was started with Knowledge Cafe (March 2007), Social KM (July 2008), and now KM for Business (March 2010).

For more information please contact KMPlus.

Knowled ge Management video competition. (top | next | prev)

So all you KMers who enjoy shooing and editing video - Patrick Lambe of Green Chameleon has announced a Make a Video about KM Competition. Go for it - it should be fun!



KM Event Highlights (top | next | prev)

This section highlights some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. You will find a full list on my website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts and RSS feeds which will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.

2nd Iranian Knowledge Management Conference
30 - 31 Jan 2010, Tehran, Iran

David Gurteen presents the Gurteen Knowledge Caf? Webinar
09 Feb 2010,
My first webinar for the Ark Group.

The 10 year impact of communities, now and in the future
22 Feb 2010, London, United Kingdom
My first London Knowledge Cafe of 2010 and already almost 100 people signed up.

KM Forum 10th Annual Conference
24 - 25 Feb 2010, Henley on Thames, United Kingdom
I will be at Henley for this event - how could I miss the 10th anniversary!

3rd Annual Global Learning Summit
03 - 05 Mar 2010, Singapore City, Singapore

KM for Business
10 - 11 Mar 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia
This will be my third worskhop for KMPlus and I am very much looking forward to it.

5th Knowledge Management International Conference
25 - 27 May 2010, Terengganu, Malaysia

KM UK 2010
15 - 16 Jun 2010, London, United Kingdom
I will be giving a keynote talk at this event.

World Library and Information Congress
10 - 15 Aug 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

11th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2010)
02 - 03 Sep 2010, Vila Nova de Famalic?o, Portugal
I will be attending this event for the seventh year in succession.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing (top | next | prev)

You may subscribe to this newsletter on my website. Or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter or if you wish to modify your e-mail address or make other changes to your membership profile then please go to this page on my website.

The Gurteen Knowledge Letter (top | next | prev)

The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based KM newsletter for Knowledge Workers. Its purpose is to help you better manage your knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as Knowledge Management, Learning, Creativity and the effective use of Internet technology. Archiv e copies are held on-line where you can regist er to receive the newsletter.

It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of the Henley Business School, Oxfordshire, England.

You may copy, reprint or forward all or part of this newsletter to friends, colleagues or customers, so long as any use is not for resale or profit and I am attributed. And if you have any queries please contact me.

David GURTEEN
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9 important point why we must be motivated....

Adapted points from one of my 'subject' blogs....very good for me at the moment....


1.Motivasi diri sendiri adalah tenaga yang mengangkat diri seseorang itu ke sebarang tahap yang diingininya.


2.Orang yang benar-benar berjaya sentiasa sedar akan tanggungjawabnya dalam motivasi diri sendiri. Dia memulakan dari dirinya sendiri, kerana dialah yang memiliki kunci penggerak dirinya.

3.Alasan yang lumrah yang menyebabkan kegagalan seseorang itu ialah kerana mengabaikan sama sekali tenaga motivasi diri sendiri.

4.Adalah mustahil untuk memotivasikan diri orang lain, sebelum kita belajar memotivasikan diri kita sendiri.

5.Peluang akan berada di mana-mana bagi seseorang yang mengerti dan mengunakan motivasi diri sendiri.

6.Orang yang bermotivasi diri sendiri melibatkan diri, orang-orang biasa hanya berjanji.

7.Pada asasnya apa yang kita perolehi dari hidup ini bergantung kepada bagaimana kita menyesuaikan apa yang kita mahu dengan motivasi diri sendiri.


8.Tenaga motivasi diri sendiri datang dari satu tindakan rancangan peribadi teguh dan pelaksanaan rancangan tersebut dalam kehidupan anda setiap hari.

9.Jika kita tidak dapat memanafaatkan tenaga anda dan potensi anda sendiri maka mental kita akan terlantar sepanjang hayat..

links that i have to look through..very interesting for those do research on KM

Understanding knowledge management and information management: the need for an empirical perspective

Abstract
Is Knowledge Management (KM) an emerging discipline or just a new label for Information Management (IM)? To provide some answers to this question, the article summarizes empirical evidence of how KM is practiced in several types of organizations demonstrating the variety of organizational approaches that are used and the processes that are involved. Based on an exploratory study of KM practices, the article presents a typology of methodologies that are employed in various organizations to illustrate what may be considered as the particular nature of KM to show potential differences with IM. The first section of the article discusses the concepts associated with the management of information and knowledge. The second part provides a description of the conceptual framework used for the study and a presentation and discussion of the results.


How to cite this paper:
Bouthillier, F. and Shearer, K. (2002). "Understanding knowledge management and information management: the need for an empirical perspective" Information Research, 8(1), paper no. 141 [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/8-1/paper141.html]

Last updated: 18th March, 2002

Knowledge Sharing vs IT Tools vs Organizational Issues

Information Technology Tools

Kevin C.Desouza(2003)
Seokwoo Song(2002)
William R.King and Peter V.Marks Jr(2008)
Alex Ramirez(2007)
Pan Xing et al(2007)
Darius Hedgebeth(2007)
Chalee Vorakulpipat and Yacine Rezgui(2008)
Tsung-Ti Chen(2008)
Benson Rose et al (2007)
Jonice Oliveira et al(2003)
E.W Coakes et al (2008)
Shan L.Pang et al(2001)

Organizational Issues (Memory, Learning, Behaviours and Performances)
Chuck C.H Law and Eric W.T Ngai (2008)

M.Millie Kwan and P.Balasubramaniam(2003)
Peter Holdt Christensen(2007)
Rong Du et al (2007)
Brent M. Han and Vittal S.Anantatmula(2007)
Adel Ismail Al-Alawi et al(2007)
Steven Walczak(2005)
Birgit Renzl(2008)
Nicozaan Finestone and Retha Snyman(2005)
Johnny C.F. So and Narasimha Bolloju(2005)
Andrew L.S. Goh(2005)
Sven C. Voelpel and Zheng Han(2005)
Alexandre Perrin et al (2007)
Martin Ward (2007)
Dimitris Brachos et al(2007)
Nekane Aramburu and Josune Sa´enz (2007)
Susanne Søndergaard et al (2007)
Laila Naif Marouf(2007)
Jen-te Yang (2007)
Jen-te Yang(2008)
Angel Cabrera et al (2006)
Byounggu Choi and Heeseok Lee(2002)
Prasahnt Borida et al(2006)
Minu Ipe (2003)

the most related with Knowledge Sharing.....actually the other areas also related with the Knowledge Sharing but my searching results at the moment shows most areas was in both of this areas....