These are the notes from a meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group, which meets to steer the work of the IDeA as it develops a 'Knowledge Hub' for UK local government.
Dr. Tiffiany M. Aholou and Ms. Deanne Bergen hosted a webinar on conducting effective town hall meetings. The webinar provided an overview of town halls, including their purpose, formats, planning steps, and engagement of community partners. It discussed using town halls to introduce alcohol prevention initiatives, raise awareness of campaigns, gather community perceptions, and encourage involvement. The presentation offered tools and best practices for planning, such as determining goals, engaging stakeholders, and following up on meetings. It also highlighted potential pitfalls to avoid, such as relying only on scripts or PowerPoint.
The document provides information on conducting a town hall meeting (THM) including:
1) Sharing ways to integrate a THM to meet GASPS related tasks and highlighting useful tools to plan an effective meeting.
2) Suggesting engaging the Community Prevention Alliance Workgroup and coalition throughout the THM planning process.
3) Discussing the nuts and bolts of planning a THM including determining the goal, format, preparations, and follow-up activities.
Tools for facilitating participatory events onlineMira Bangel
When developing an online event, we ask ourselves:
How can we create amazing participatory experiences that allow people to completely forget they are not in a physical environment? How can we turn the online challenge into an opportunity?
Much of what makes an event special is the time we spend together with our clients sensing into the deeper purpose, building a strong design with clear roles in the team and of course the participatory mindset and practices we apply when we facilitate.
However technology does play a key role and technology should be an enabler rather than a disabler :)
What most people fail to realise, is that any technological tool needs to be selected and used, based on the specific PURPOSE that has to be addressed.
So how can we understand the different expectations/needs that we have to address? And how can we select the right tools, based on these specific needs?
Here is a practical guide that we've pulled together on the topic with the SenseTribe team. How was this guide developed? Laura Grassi has been the key author, Marina Roa has added her wonderful illustrations, Raffaella Toticchi has added a mental model and many other amazing SenseTribers have added their ideas and thoughts, thank you. To find out more about us, our work and how we create magical participatory events, check out our website: www.sensetribe.com
The document provides 10 practical ideas for organizations to stimulate innovation, including engaging communities of practice, experimenting with new methods, and implementing improvements through iterative processes. It recommends borrowing ideas from other successful programs, discussing new approaches in brainstorming sessions, and looking outside the organization for fresh perspectives to spur innovation. The overall message is that innovation benefits from collaboration both within and beyond organizational boundaries.
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
This document discusses best practices for siting housing first facilities based on guidance from national organizations. There is no single, agreed upon set of best practices, but several organizations provide useful resources on their websites. Common recommendations include engaging the community early, avoiding locations near other homeless services or established residences, and building a coalition of community supporters. The housing first field could benefit from a coordinated set of best practices to assist future development projects.
Dr. Tiffiany M. Aholou and Ms. Deanne Bergen hosted a webinar on conducting effective town hall meetings. The webinar provided an overview of town halls, including their purpose, formats, planning steps, and engagement of community partners. It discussed using town halls to introduce alcohol prevention initiatives, raise awareness of campaigns, gather community perceptions, and encourage involvement. The presentation offered tools and best practices for planning, such as determining goals, engaging stakeholders, and following up on meetings. It also highlighted potential pitfalls to avoid, such as relying only on scripts or PowerPoint.
The document provides information on conducting a town hall meeting (THM) including:
1) Sharing ways to integrate a THM to meet GASPS related tasks and highlighting useful tools to plan an effective meeting.
2) Suggesting engaging the Community Prevention Alliance Workgroup and coalition throughout the THM planning process.
3) Discussing the nuts and bolts of planning a THM including determining the goal, format, preparations, and follow-up activities.
Tools for facilitating participatory events onlineMira Bangel
When developing an online event, we ask ourselves:
How can we create amazing participatory experiences that allow people to completely forget they are not in a physical environment? How can we turn the online challenge into an opportunity?
Much of what makes an event special is the time we spend together with our clients sensing into the deeper purpose, building a strong design with clear roles in the team and of course the participatory mindset and practices we apply when we facilitate.
However technology does play a key role and technology should be an enabler rather than a disabler :)
What most people fail to realise, is that any technological tool needs to be selected and used, based on the specific PURPOSE that has to be addressed.
So how can we understand the different expectations/needs that we have to address? And how can we select the right tools, based on these specific needs?
Here is a practical guide that we've pulled together on the topic with the SenseTribe team. How was this guide developed? Laura Grassi has been the key author, Marina Roa has added her wonderful illustrations, Raffaella Toticchi has added a mental model and many other amazing SenseTribers have added their ideas and thoughts, thank you. To find out more about us, our work and how we create magical participatory events, check out our website: www.sensetribe.com
The document provides 10 practical ideas for organizations to stimulate innovation, including engaging communities of practice, experimenting with new methods, and implementing improvements through iterative processes. It recommends borrowing ideas from other successful programs, discussing new approaches in brainstorming sessions, and looking outside the organization for fresh perspectives to spur innovation. The overall message is that innovation benefits from collaboration both within and beyond organizational boundaries.
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
This document discusses best practices for siting housing first facilities based on guidance from national organizations. There is no single, agreed upon set of best practices, but several organizations provide useful resources on their websites. Common recommendations include engaging the community early, avoiding locations near other homeless services or established residences, and building a coalition of community supporters. The housing first field could benefit from a coordinated set of best practices to assist future development projects.
Stan Garfield outlines a knowledge management vision for his organization in 10 points. The vision includes 1) establishing people, processes, and technologies to enable sharing, innovating, reusing, collaborating and learning. It also involves 2) providing a single global platform with access to communities, sites, repositories and tools, and 3) allowing interaction through various interfaces. The vision aims to promote knowledge sharing across the organization.
- The document discusses asset mapping and provides examples of how it could be used in different contexts like working with primary care teams, developing personal networks, helping self-management champions, and maintaining mobility and community contact for older adults.
- It gives an example of how an asset mapping session could be structured and provides tips on materials, potential participants, and follow-up activities that could result from asset mapping.
- The overall document serves as a guide for facilitating asset mapping conversations and discussions in community settings.
Communities of Practice: Principles and TipsStan Garfield
Presentation on April 11, 2014 to Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) Program in the School of Professional Studies
RIF Sustainability East - Building a renewable infrastructure frameworkSustainabilityEast
The document discusses creating a Renewable Infrastructure Framework (RIF) to help achieve sustainability goals. A RIF provides a technical baseline for renewable energy potential and investment opportunities in an area. It also establishes practical steps and a delivery network to implement infrastructure projects. Developing a RIF requires bringing together stakeholders through an open and collaborative process to build trust and consensus around a shared evidence base and action plan. An online and digital engagement strategy can help make this an inclusive process that reaches more of the community. Commitments are gathered from stakeholders to support carrying out the framework in practice.
Methods and Techniques for Community Engagement Dr. John Persico
Some ideas to help foster community engagement in the City of Minneapolis. My partner and I had a contract for two years to help the CIty implement a Community Engagement Process. We developed, tested and deployed a model for CE and also designed some training to support the role out of the model.
Knowledge management involves transforming information into value through sharing, reusing, collaborating on, and learning from intellectual assets. It provides processes and technologies to help the right knowledge flow to the right people at the right time. The document outlines various knowledge management strategies, components, benefits, and specialties to help organizations effectively implement knowledge management.
This document reports on a project between 211 centers and volunteer centers in Ontario to determine how collaboration could benefit communities. It describes the collaborative partners, which included five 211 centers and five volunteer centers. An environmental scan found that relationships between the organizations varied across regions, with some having service level agreements and sharing databases while others primarily referred calls. The report outlines the project vision, principles, expected results and outcomes achieved so far, which included developing models, protocols and tools to strengthen partnerships between 211 and volunteer centers.
The document discusses the goals and plans for developing "The Knowledge Hub", which is a project aimed at facilitating knowledge sharing across local governments in the UK. The key goals are to make it easier for local governments to access experiences from other councils, encourage collaboration and problem solving, and help councils improve performance. The project will involve developing web and social media platforms to better aggregate, filter and share knowledge. It will focus on user-generated content and narratives over static documents. Challenges include incentivizing contribution and ensuring staff have needed training.
This document discusses communities of practice and how they evolve through different lifecycles. It begins by providing background on communities of practice and how they were first observed among groups of technicians sharing expertise. The document then discusses the emerging paradigm of communities having lifecycles that include planning, initiating, launching, driving toward self-sufficiency. Barriers to their evolution like lost momentum are also examined, along with tips for reversing trends like providing resources and recognizing contributions. The document presents two case studies, one of a community in an Italian bank and another of a virtual online community, to illustrate successful communities. Mantras for structuring and sustaining communities through variety and breaking monotony are also shared.
Philanthropy and Online Collaboration WebinarForum One
How can funders spark more information-sharing and connections among grantees and others in the sectors they fund? Can online collaboration build stronger relationships between funders and grantees?
Our two presenters will share their successes helping grantees collaborate more effectively online:
* Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program, on the Global Libraries Toolkit.
* Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved program, on the Community Clinic Voice.
Following the presentations, we’ll have an open discussion of challenges and best practices for funders seeking to stimulate collaboration.
This webinar is sponsored by Forum One Communications, a web strategy and design firm focused on the public sector, and foundations in particular. Among our clients are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Healthcare Foundation, and the California State Healthcare Foundation.
Building a social business – combining external and internal social mediaZipipop Freud
This document discusses how to build internal social collaboration capabilities within an organization. It suggests that as external social media like Facebook and Twitter have grown, internal collaboration tools need to evolve as well to facilitate sharing, discussing, and interacting around content within organizations. The document outlines challenges with traditional email and proposes using social collaboration platforms that integrate with daily workflows. It provides examples of how organizations like Skanska and OSKE have successfully implemented internal social tools to improve communication, knowledge sharing, and business outcomes.
Discovering The Value Of Social Networks and Communities of PracticeCollabor8now Ltd
There has been much written about measuring the value of online communities such as Social Networks or Communities of Practice. However, most pundits tend to think of measuring value from a purely financial perspective, i.e. the Return on Investment (ROI). Clearly this is an important factor, but it’s not the only factor that should be considered
Compaq KM Strategy Presentation from 2000Stan Garfield
The document discusses a proposal for a knowledge management strategy at Compaq. It begins with an overview of knowledge management and an analysis of Compaq's current state, which finds positive initiatives but also barriers like too many systems, information overload, and a lack of rewards for sharing knowledge. It then recommends leveraging existing strong initiatives, building a common structure from the best ones, and creating a Compaq Knowledge Management Program to establish people, processes, and technologies on an enterprise-wide level. This would address current problems like the lack of communities of practice, difficulty finding experts, and lack of integration among tools and information sources.
Presentation on April 7, 2016 to the Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) Program in the School of Professional Studies
How The Knowledge Hub (Online community platform) helps local government professionals to connect and learn from each other.
Real stories from the members
1. The state of knowledge management is mixed, with some negative and positive indicators. Negatively, some KM programs, jobs, and communities have declined or been eliminated due to cost-cutting. Positively, KM conferences and university programs continue, and social business tools have improved knowledge sharing.
2. While fundamental KM needs remain, technology departments often don't support separate KM programs. Communities still have potential, and proven older approaches can be effective. KM survives but does not grow much.
3. Recent KM trends include knowledge retention, analytics, cognitive computing, enterprise social networks, chat tools, gamification, aggregation, and customization. The term "KM" has endured
The document outlines 10 ways to build expertise: 1) assess yourself, 2) read books and online materials, 3) join communities, 4) attend conferences, 5) use social media, 6) present and teach, 7) publish content, 8) attend training, 9) learn by doing, and 10) find a mentor. It provides details on each method, including specific resources and advice. The overall aim is to help individuals identify areas of expertise and guide ongoing learning through diverse activities.
Reflecting on a year online: Lessons from a survey of international investmen...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Zoe Williams and Taylor St John, given on May 27, 2021, as part of the webinar "Reflecting on a year online: Lessons from a survey of international investment negotiators."
Lotus Connections 2.0 - A Deployment PortfolioStuart McIntyre
What makes a company collaborative?
5 areas in which technology can assist your organisation become collaborative
What can Lotus Connections (and other integrated Lotus products) offer?
For each area I list a real-world deployment scenario showing the business drivers, technology solution chosen and benefits gained.
Lastly, I cover a little of the infrastructure behind the Connections solution and the obstacles that might be encountered.
Delevered to an audience of Systems Integrators at an IBM TechJam event, April 7th 2009.
The document is a lesson plan in Russian for teaching English about environmental issues. It includes an introduction to the topic, quotes to prompt discussion, presentation of a student's pattern text about reducing pollution, and exercises for students to write their own pattern texts about helping animals and present in groups.
I want to help as many people become financially independent as possible. Stop loosing your money to the bank. This is a strategy that has been around for a very long time using a vehicle that has been around for over 100 years.
Stan Garfield outlines a knowledge management vision for his organization in 10 points. The vision includes 1) establishing people, processes, and technologies to enable sharing, innovating, reusing, collaborating and learning. It also involves 2) providing a single global platform with access to communities, sites, repositories and tools, and 3) allowing interaction through various interfaces. The vision aims to promote knowledge sharing across the organization.
- The document discusses asset mapping and provides examples of how it could be used in different contexts like working with primary care teams, developing personal networks, helping self-management champions, and maintaining mobility and community contact for older adults.
- It gives an example of how an asset mapping session could be structured and provides tips on materials, potential participants, and follow-up activities that could result from asset mapping.
- The overall document serves as a guide for facilitating asset mapping conversations and discussions in community settings.
Communities of Practice: Principles and TipsStan Garfield
Presentation on April 11, 2014 to Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) Program in the School of Professional Studies
RIF Sustainability East - Building a renewable infrastructure frameworkSustainabilityEast
The document discusses creating a Renewable Infrastructure Framework (RIF) to help achieve sustainability goals. A RIF provides a technical baseline for renewable energy potential and investment opportunities in an area. It also establishes practical steps and a delivery network to implement infrastructure projects. Developing a RIF requires bringing together stakeholders through an open and collaborative process to build trust and consensus around a shared evidence base and action plan. An online and digital engagement strategy can help make this an inclusive process that reaches more of the community. Commitments are gathered from stakeholders to support carrying out the framework in practice.
Methods and Techniques for Community Engagement Dr. John Persico
Some ideas to help foster community engagement in the City of Minneapolis. My partner and I had a contract for two years to help the CIty implement a Community Engagement Process. We developed, tested and deployed a model for CE and also designed some training to support the role out of the model.
Knowledge management involves transforming information into value through sharing, reusing, collaborating on, and learning from intellectual assets. It provides processes and technologies to help the right knowledge flow to the right people at the right time. The document outlines various knowledge management strategies, components, benefits, and specialties to help organizations effectively implement knowledge management.
This document reports on a project between 211 centers and volunteer centers in Ontario to determine how collaboration could benefit communities. It describes the collaborative partners, which included five 211 centers and five volunteer centers. An environmental scan found that relationships between the organizations varied across regions, with some having service level agreements and sharing databases while others primarily referred calls. The report outlines the project vision, principles, expected results and outcomes achieved so far, which included developing models, protocols and tools to strengthen partnerships between 211 and volunteer centers.
The document discusses the goals and plans for developing "The Knowledge Hub", which is a project aimed at facilitating knowledge sharing across local governments in the UK. The key goals are to make it easier for local governments to access experiences from other councils, encourage collaboration and problem solving, and help councils improve performance. The project will involve developing web and social media platforms to better aggregate, filter and share knowledge. It will focus on user-generated content and narratives over static documents. Challenges include incentivizing contribution and ensuring staff have needed training.
This document discusses communities of practice and how they evolve through different lifecycles. It begins by providing background on communities of practice and how they were first observed among groups of technicians sharing expertise. The document then discusses the emerging paradigm of communities having lifecycles that include planning, initiating, launching, driving toward self-sufficiency. Barriers to their evolution like lost momentum are also examined, along with tips for reversing trends like providing resources and recognizing contributions. The document presents two case studies, one of a community in an Italian bank and another of a virtual online community, to illustrate successful communities. Mantras for structuring and sustaining communities through variety and breaking monotony are also shared.
Philanthropy and Online Collaboration WebinarForum One
How can funders spark more information-sharing and connections among grantees and others in the sectors they fund? Can online collaboration build stronger relationships between funders and grantees?
Our two presenters will share their successes helping grantees collaborate more effectively online:
* Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program, on the Global Libraries Toolkit.
* Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved program, on the Community Clinic Voice.
Following the presentations, we’ll have an open discussion of challenges and best practices for funders seeking to stimulate collaboration.
This webinar is sponsored by Forum One Communications, a web strategy and design firm focused on the public sector, and foundations in particular. Among our clients are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Healthcare Foundation, and the California State Healthcare Foundation.
Building a social business – combining external and internal social mediaZipipop Freud
This document discusses how to build internal social collaboration capabilities within an organization. It suggests that as external social media like Facebook and Twitter have grown, internal collaboration tools need to evolve as well to facilitate sharing, discussing, and interacting around content within organizations. The document outlines challenges with traditional email and proposes using social collaboration platforms that integrate with daily workflows. It provides examples of how organizations like Skanska and OSKE have successfully implemented internal social tools to improve communication, knowledge sharing, and business outcomes.
Discovering The Value Of Social Networks and Communities of PracticeCollabor8now Ltd
There has been much written about measuring the value of online communities such as Social Networks or Communities of Practice. However, most pundits tend to think of measuring value from a purely financial perspective, i.e. the Return on Investment (ROI). Clearly this is an important factor, but it’s not the only factor that should be considered
Compaq KM Strategy Presentation from 2000Stan Garfield
The document discusses a proposal for a knowledge management strategy at Compaq. It begins with an overview of knowledge management and an analysis of Compaq's current state, which finds positive initiatives but also barriers like too many systems, information overload, and a lack of rewards for sharing knowledge. It then recommends leveraging existing strong initiatives, building a common structure from the best ones, and creating a Compaq Knowledge Management Program to establish people, processes, and technologies on an enterprise-wide level. This would address current problems like the lack of communities of practice, difficulty finding experts, and lack of integration among tools and information sources.
Presentation on April 7, 2016 to the Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) Program in the School of Professional Studies
How The Knowledge Hub (Online community platform) helps local government professionals to connect and learn from each other.
Real stories from the members
1. The state of knowledge management is mixed, with some negative and positive indicators. Negatively, some KM programs, jobs, and communities have declined or been eliminated due to cost-cutting. Positively, KM conferences and university programs continue, and social business tools have improved knowledge sharing.
2. While fundamental KM needs remain, technology departments often don't support separate KM programs. Communities still have potential, and proven older approaches can be effective. KM survives but does not grow much.
3. Recent KM trends include knowledge retention, analytics, cognitive computing, enterprise social networks, chat tools, gamification, aggregation, and customization. The term "KM" has endured
The document outlines 10 ways to build expertise: 1) assess yourself, 2) read books and online materials, 3) join communities, 4) attend conferences, 5) use social media, 6) present and teach, 7) publish content, 8) attend training, 9) learn by doing, and 10) find a mentor. It provides details on each method, including specific resources and advice. The overall aim is to help individuals identify areas of expertise and guide ongoing learning through diverse activities.
Reflecting on a year online: Lessons from a survey of international investmen...Cesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Zoe Williams and Taylor St John, given on May 27, 2021, as part of the webinar "Reflecting on a year online: Lessons from a survey of international investment negotiators."
Lotus Connections 2.0 - A Deployment PortfolioStuart McIntyre
What makes a company collaborative?
5 areas in which technology can assist your organisation become collaborative
What can Lotus Connections (and other integrated Lotus products) offer?
For each area I list a real-world deployment scenario showing the business drivers, technology solution chosen and benefits gained.
Lastly, I cover a little of the infrastructure behind the Connections solution and the obstacles that might be encountered.
Delevered to an audience of Systems Integrators at an IBM TechJam event, April 7th 2009.
The document is a lesson plan in Russian for teaching English about environmental issues. It includes an introduction to the topic, quotes to prompt discussion, presentation of a student's pattern text about reducing pollution, and exercises for students to write their own pattern texts about helping animals and present in groups.
I want to help as many people become financially independent as possible. Stop loosing your money to the bank. This is a strategy that has been around for a very long time using a vehicle that has been around for over 100 years.
Developing Education of Foreign LanguagesLubasweet
The document discusses various theories and methods related to developing education in foreign languages, including concrete poetry, pattern-text, multiple intelligences theory, and critical thinking theory. It provides examples of different types of concrete poems and ways of organizing pattern-texts. It also describes Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory which suggests intelligence is multiple and cannot be measured in a lab. The document concludes with discussing critical thinking and the characteristics of a critical thinker.
Closing financing is one of the biggest challenges faced by entrepreneurs today. To help startups easily access funding resources, MaRS has partnered with The Funding Portal. Its funding resources are now available on the MaRS website.
The Funding Portal aggregates more than 7,000 sources of funding within a free searchable database, including more than 4,500 government sources and 2,500 private sources, such as VC, angel investors, bank financing and private equity.
Want to know more about this tool and how to find financing? This session will help you learn how to quickly and easily close financing for your business.
With content tailored for entrepreneurs and innovative growth companies, this presentation surveys:
-Canada’s and Ontario’s funding marketplace
-Canada’s most popular funding programs
-New and upcoming funding programs
-Best practices in applying for funds
-The four steps to secure funding and leverage your application into new sources of private financing
-The most common challenges faced in securing funding—and how to overcome them
Tom Sweeney will be speaking at the GameON: Finance Conference in Toronto on October 28-29, 2008. His discussion topics will include revisiting innovation, business models, business plans and pitches, venture economics and development plans. He will discuss how early stage companies are better focusing on value leadership and new market innovation rather than sustaining and low-end innovation. The importance of intellectual property and business models in building sustainable companies will also be covered.
This document discusses the evolution of virtual worlds from 2D online communities to 3D environments. It notes that while originally pioneered in the US, many Asian countries like China, Japan and South Korea gained an early start through avatars and monetizing virtual goods. Today, virtual worlds come in many forms for gaming, education or business. The largest services are generally aimed at teens for gaming. No 3D virtual world has achieved significant revenue yet. As computing power increases, 3D virtual worlds may provide more advantages for sharing information and emotions.
Think Tank discussions went on in 2013 to promote an internal look at IIR's shortcomings from the employee culture. These discussions were carefully crafted to be constructive and informational. They were deemed a great success by internal teams and there was ongoing attendance at the optional meetings.
From the ideal to the real: Top 20 lessons learned from scaling up innovation...Soren Gigler
Top 20 lessons learned on scaling up innovations from the Open Data Initiative at the World Bank. The Open Data Initiative has transformed the way the World Bank shares and publishes its data enabling users to have free, open and easy access to data instead of a previously mostly proprietary data policy.
How did such a radical change come about? How was it possible that our early very modest endeavors to implement innovations in governance could be scaled up and be replicated across so many different areas at the Bank? How could a vibrant community of innovators from within and outside the Bank come together share experiences, learn from each other and, most important, help to make an important institutional change -- launch an Open Data initiative and empower citizens to provide direct feedback on development programs?
Creating an information literate Scotland community of practiceLesley Thomson
This document discusses communities of practice (CoPs) and their role in creating an information literate Scotland. It defines CoPs as groups that share a common interest and learn from one another through regular interaction. The document outlines the purpose and functions of CoPs, including types like helping communities and best practice communities. It also discusses critical success factors for CoPs and ways the Scottish government has supported its information literacy CoP, including through regular emails and polls to engage members.
Facilitating knowledge-exchange: providing the right format, incentives, faci...kjantin
This document discusses facilitating knowledge exchange in the human rights field. It identifies barriers to knowledge sharing such as competition, security concerns, and lack of time. However, knowledge exchange strengthens human rights work by allowing practitioners to learn successful and unsuccessful approaches from peers. Effective incentives for participation include learning new tactics, reflecting on experiences, meeting new contacts, and being seen as a leader. Successful formats include webinars, discussion forums, and in-person events. Key facilitation techniques are selecting specific topics, modeling sharing behaviors, providing encouragement, and offering technical support.
Public Governance Seminar - What works: Towards Evidence Informed Policy MakingOECD Governance
The objective of this seminar is to examine emerging national models for evidence-informed policy and to explore opportunities for international co-operation in the increasingly global movement to synthesis evidence on What Works in a range of policy interventions.
There is growing international interest in the use of a What Works approach and in building a global evidence-base for policy interventions.
This seminar asks the question: what would be the benefits of international co-operation and what practically could the OECD do to support this international agenda?
For more information see www.oecd.org/gov
BUS 1010 Civic Learning ProjectThink about who you will be iVannaSchrader3
BUS 1010 Civic Learning Project
Think about who you will be in 2030, what problem you will be solving to contribute to the public
good, describe the significance of the problem, How you will resolve this problem, what data you will
be collecting, How you will collect the data, etc.
The project in Bus 1010 is meant to give you the understanding and an opportunity to apply
business concepts to solving a problem in your community. The project consists of three major
parts: research, evidence gathering and presentation. A paper assignment and a class presentation
are required to complete the project. Students who successfully complete this assignment will be able
to demonstrate the following civic learning objectives (CLO):
● CLO 1: Identify problems in a community that would benefit from statistical analysis. (Civic
knowledge)
● CLO 2: Identify statistics from published research that show causes or degree of a real-world
problem. (Civic skills)
● CLO 3: Conduct a basic statistical study (survey) in the workplace or community. (Civic
skills)
● CLO 4: Effectively communicate statistical data through charts and graphs(infographic) in a
manner that a member of the general public could understand. (Civic skills)
Please note the following steps to complete the assignment:
1. Define a problem in the community
It might be useful to look for articles in business journals/publications to define a problem in the
community. Consider the following questions when you find the problem and be prepared to discuss
in class:
a) Explain the problem's significance to you? Why do you consider it a problem?
b) What are the consequences of the problem if it is not addressed?
c) Why do you see this problem interfering with public good?
Please use your definition of civic engagement when answering these questions.
2. Evidence Gathering
Part 1: Academic and Statistical Research
Find 1-2 academic sources (e.g., journal articles) and at least 2 articles in business journals or
magazines that provide insight into why this problem is important in your community. For each
article:
a) Summarize the findings.
b) State any statistics that are important to your problem.
c) Explain how this article relates to your problem.
Be prepared to discuss your findings in class, in a group setting or with the whole class.
BUS 1010 Civic Learning Project
Part 2: Determine what additional information you should compile. through a survey
Conduct a survey of at least 10 members of your community that helps provide insight into the
problem. You could ask friends and family to complete your survey. When designing your survey keep
in mind that the following elements will be required for your presentation: at least 1 question that
requires qualitative or a quantitative answer, and at least 1 graph displaying the results. Therefore:
Ask at least one question with an answer that is a qualitative or a quantitative variable. We will
discuss more in class.
Most importantly, you mu ...
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving ...OECD Governance
Outcomes of the conference on the role of official statistics in an evolving communication society
Presentation by Martine Zaïda, Communications Manager
Statistics and Data Directorate
Evidence-informed Workshop (OECD, 9-10 April 2018)
The document discusses I-Open's interview and conversation research. It conducts interviews with business, government, and civic leaders to share their ideas and innovations online. These interviews help inform economic development by building trust, aligning investment, and providing different perspectives. Interview content is organized by topic and published online under Creative Commons for public use and commentary. The goal is to identify emerging innovations and guide investment in changing regional economies.
Successful communication a toolkid for researchers and cs osDr Lendy Spires
This document provides an introduction to a toolkit for researchers and civil society organizations on successful communication. It discusses why communication is important for development work, providing information to empower communities and ensuring transparency. It also notes communication is important for learning and building understanding between different groups. The document reviews literature on improving research communication to policymakers, other researchers, and end users. It identifies some gaps such as treating communication as a systemic issue, improving the conditions for communication, and facilitating greater Southern engagement in communication processes. The toolkit that follows provides tools for planning, packaging, targeting and monitoring communications.
Day 0 learning and training-opening session_AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair_Oct...Simone Staiger-Rivas
This document provides an agenda for a training on knowledge sharing and collaboration tools. It begins with an opening session where participants will discuss changes in their sectors and what is occurring globally. They will then discuss the need for greater knowledge sharing and collaboration. The document outlines steps to choose the right tools, including identifying goals, stakeholders, and tool functionality. Participants will learn about and try social media, video/audio, Google, and face-to-face tools. They will match tools to their work stages and goals. The goal is to help participants effectively share knowledge to achieve their objectives.
The document summarizes the development and operation of the Scottish Information Literacy Community of Practice, which was created with limited funding to continue the work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project. It discusses establishing an online presence, engaging members, and sharing practices. The community has grown to over 100 members and facilitated collaboration around projects. Key lessons learned include the importance of partnerships, cross-sector work, supporting practitioners, encouraging participation through meetings and writing, and recognizing that communities of practice require sustained time and interaction from members.
Lilac 2014 Scottish Information Literacy Community of Practice presentationChristine Irving
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Field Note Collaborations for Week 3
Field notes are a very important part of anthropological research.
Anthropologists use their field
notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For
your collaboration you are being asked to make your own field notes, based on the assigned
course materials. As you read the assign
ed material or watch an assigned video for this week,
download the
Weekly
Study Field Notes
(Links to an external site.)
document and fill out a new
set of field notes in which you are expected to write down important concepts, parts of your
reading that you might have questions about, or even content that you find surprising o
r
interesting. Just like the notes that an anthropologist makes in the field, your notes must be clear
and easy to read because you will be uploading and sharing them with your peers in the
collaboration.
Guided Response:
Save your file in the following format:
StudentName
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Field_Notes.docx
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Attach your Field Notes Worksheet to your initial posting in the discussion forum. (View the
Attaching Documents to Discussions video
(Links to an external site.)
to learn how to do this).
Field Note Collaborations for Week 3
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notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For
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course materials. As you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video for this week,
download the Weekly Study Field Notes (Links to an external site.) document and fill out a new
set of field notes in which you are expected to write down important concepts, parts of your
reading that you ...
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Knowledge Hub Advisory Group Notes 7 Dec 09
1. Knowledge Hub Advisory Group
Report of Meeting held 7th December 2009
By: Steve Dale
Date: 27 January 2010
The second meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group took place on 7th
December at CCT Venues, the Barbican. The meeting has been reported via a number
of social media channels, including:
http://socialreporter.com/?p=659
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0HCotLDxQ
http://friendfeed.com/khub
http://ideapolicy.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-knowledge-hub/
http://www.slideshare.net/stephendale/knowledge-hub-advisory-group-17-sep09
http://www.slideshare.net/ingrid_k/draft-idea-social-media-strategy
http://steve-dale.net/2009/12/08/knowledge-hub-advisory-group/
This report is a permanent record of the meeting and provides a medium to collect and
disseminate the key outcomes to members of the Advisory Group.
The meeting was organised as a collaborative workshop with the objective of getting
participants to work through a number of typical local government business scenarios
that will require the interrogation of many and disparate information sources, the
collation, interpretation and analysis of different datasets and the identification and
access to online and offline networks for knowledge sharing. Two scenarios were
used, as follows:
SCENARIO 1
You work with Hubville City Council. You are new to the Youth Offending Team.
In a meeting with the Performance Officer in charge of LAA (Local Area
Agreement) monitoring and another officer from the Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnership you discover that councillors are concerned that your area doesn’t look
on track to meet a key monitoring figure for its LAA : NI 111 (national indicator)
- First time entrants to the Youth Justice System aged 10-17.
It’s a single measure, but part of a wider set of priorities about reducing youth crime
and anti-social behaviour among youth in general – and in some ‘blighted’
communities in particular. You are going to conduct a snapshot review of your
current programme and try to identify a network of people who can help you.
How will Knowledge Hub help you to:
1. Identify your current performance and compare it with others
2. Knowledge Hub Advisory Group – Reports of Meeting 17 December 2010
2. Understand how you can track and monitor information which might be related
to or influence NI 111 (for example – reported crimes, prosecution rates, NI
117 the number of 16-18 year olds who are not in education, employment or
training (NEETs))
3. Know what ‘best in class’ are doing
4. Identify people locally who are working on similar issues
5. Identify people across the country who are at the same stage in your
improvement journey
6. Find resources to help you deliver improvement against NI 111
7. Share your story and help others find the resources that worked for you.
Map your journey using the paper and materials provided. How will you interface
with the hub? What will it look like? How will you navigate through it? How will
others be able to see and learn from what you are doing?
SCENARIO 2
You work for Hubville Primary Care Trust. You've never worked for local
government, but now you're looking at working with Hubville City Council on a
partnership target of reducing:
NI 39 Rate of hospital admission for 100,000 population for alcohol related
harm.
As well as a serious problem with binge drinking among young people, there is an
older workless population with a high incidence of alcohol related illness. The
problem has worsened since the Hubville Automated Industries closed down last
year.
How will Knowledge Hub help you to:
1. Identify your current performance and compare it with others
2. Understand how you can track and monitor information which might be related to
or influence NI 39 (for example NI 20: Assault with injury crime rate NI
21: Dealing with local concerns about anti-social behaviour and crime issues
by the local council and police)
3. Know what ‘best in class’ are doing
4. Identify people locally who are working on similar issues
5. Identify people across the country who are at the same stage in your improvement
journey
6. Find resources to help you deliver improvement against NI 39
7. Share your story and help others find the resources that worked for you.
Map your journey using the paper and materials provided. How will you interface
with the hub? What will it look like? How will you navigate through it? How will
others be able to see and learn from what you are doing?
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Outcomes
The scenarios brought home to participants the difficulties in (a) knowing where to
find the information required, (b) the lack of any consistency between different
information sources, and (c) the barriers to finding and sharing relevant knowledge.
See photos in the Appendix for examples of the outputs from the two scenarios.
The scenarios are typical of the problems that will be addressed and resolved with the
implementation of the Knowledge Hub. It was very encouraging that on completion
of this exercise, many of the participants revealed that they now fully understood what
the Knowledge Hub was, and how it could benefit them as individuals and the sector
as a whole.
The workshop ended with a Knowledge Café, where participants were asked to
consider what they had learnt from the two business scenarios and discuss the
following questions:
Knowledge café
1. What is the best way of explaining what the Knowledge Hub has to offer? (i.e.
it’s not just another website)
2. What social media skills are required to navigate and share information and
stories of improvement?
3. What cultural changes will need to take place to help people share
information?
4. What’s the best way of building skill and culture change to achieve knowledge
sharing?
5. How can we incentivise early adopters to add to Knowledge Hub to its fullest
extent?
Due to lack of time, participants were unable to consider and respond to all of the
questions, but some useful points came out of the first question, as follows:
Feedback from the Knowledge Café
The Knowledge Hub will…
1. have a central dashboard function, allowing you to choose types of
information and subject areas – it would allow you to see what’s new, what’s
hot and what’s relevant to you
2. will support high levels of personalisation – you can choose your own
dashboard – the functions that you want, but at the same time it would help
you make links to things you didn’t know existed.
3. will allow you to make associations with ‘people like me’ – those who had
similar responsibilities in their work – as well as to identify ‘experts’ in
different specialised areas. Or be recognised as an expert yourself.
4. will make it easy to share your experience and your views – even if you didn’t
always know that you were doing so – that is – just the fact that 20
performance officers in a council had downloaded a document would have
more weight than if no one had – or that only external consultants had.
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4. Knowledge Hub Advisory Group – Reports of Meeting 17 December 2010
5. will help central and local government facilitate the development of a
community (of interest or practice) around a particular indicator, where the
community would define the performance parameters and measurement
criteria for the indicator.
Finally, the key benefits that were identified from both the scenarios and the
knowledge café have been listed below and will be incorporated into the Knowledge
Hub Benefits Realisation Plan, which will provide key indicators for measuring the
ultimate success of the project.
Benefits Realisation
Easier to access relevant information
Easier to share tools and techniques
Can find and follow people with same/similar interests, leading to
opportunities for collaboration coproduction and partnership working.
Can find or become a sector expert
Validates and support views and ideas
Efficient – time saved in getting to key information. Cost savings – less
research, more doing.
Reduced dependency on sector support/mediation from external agencies and
consultants
Sector-led improvement.
Not just central gov issues
Local/accountable
Citizens involved.
The Knowledge Hub Advisory Group participants are thanked for their valuable input
to the workshop, and more importantly to the project itself. The next meeting of the
Advisory Group is scheduled for 10th March 2010. Details to follow.
Regards,
Steve Dale
IDeA Associate Consultant
Knowledge Hub Project Lead.
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5. Knowledge Hub Advisory Group – Reports of Meeting 17 December 2010
APPENDIX – PHOTOS FROM THE WORKSHOP
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