Using Technology: Connecting People with Knowledge

Colleagues in the wider management community are invited to register now – or register staff – for the next course in the SLA Click U Certificate Program in KM/Knowledge Services. If you are interested in the connection between technology and knowledge services delivery – or if you have staff who are – this is the course to take.

Beginning Monday, November 2, Using Technology: Connecting People with Knowledge will explore the relationship between technology and knowledge.

Recognizing that technology enables knowledge management and knowledge services, our goal is to examine how course participants can strengthen the role of knowledge development and knowledge sharing (KD/KS) in the larger organization and establish KD/KS as the foundation of organizational effectiveness. The critical result is the development and on-going implementation of an enterprise-wide knowledge culture supporting the organizational vision, mission, and values. In this course, we identify, develop, and learn how to obtain the support of all organizational knowledge stakeholders in managing the relationship between technology and knowledge.

There are five course meetings, all online: three Monday lectures (November 2, 9, and 16) and a live discussion with a Guest Participant on Thursday, October 12. A final course meeting, our course wrap-up and thematic discussion, will be held on Thursday, November 19. All programs begin at 3:00 PM EDT, and recordings of all meetings are available for re-play immediately following each meeting (an added bonus for international participants located in different time zones).

I am the course instructor, and Dale Stanley and Cindy Hill teach with me. Both Cindy and Dale are well known to SMR Int’l colleagues, as we three join together in SMR’s Spot-On Seminars, monthly online conversations about strategic knowledge, specialized librarianship, and other topics of interest to knowledge workers.

Please join us. Also, please note that participation in all certificate courses is not required and any of these courses can be taken individually (although there is considerable financial incentive for joining the certificate program). For more information about SLA’s Click U courses, go here. Membership in SLA is not required for participation, so feel free to share this message with others interested in learning more about the connection between technology and knowledge.