On Monday and Tuesday I took part in the ICKM 2007 in Vienna. I transcribed some of my notes on the best presentations I attended in this weblog. Please feel free to comment my thoughts at the end of the page. I linked some of the terms to wikipedia so the "ICKM Community" can use wikipedia as their knowledge base. I added a number on each presentation so you can easily comment on a specific presentation by referring to the number. I would like to motivate the presenters to upload their presentations to slideshare or upload them as pdf somewhere and send me a notice so I can link the presentation from here.

We are often asked what are "Communities of Practice"? Are they more like a discussion board on the internet? What roles and processes do they have?

Next week I am hosting a Workshop on community of practice (CoP). Here is the agenda:

http://www.arbeitskreis-wissensmanagement.org/efiles/ak-sitzungen/20050303_siemens-CoP.pdf<

http://www.arbeitskreis-wissensmanagement.org/efiles/ak-sitzungen/20040617_iao-communities_of_innovation.pdf

http://www.gfwm.de/files/GfWM-Stammtisch%20Mittelfranken%20-%202006-02-09%20-%20WM%20in%20der%20Schaeffler%20Gruppe.pdf

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ackerm/courses/04-1.si670/haas.pre-press.pdf

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