PRICE: $230.00 Member/ $115.00 Student Member/ $300.00 Non-Member
Ah, if only knowledge managers and information professionals could identify “magic measures” that would convey the value of information services to decision makers. While Rebecca Jones has yet to find any such measures during her 30 years of working in this sector, she has found, through many informal surveys, an approach to successfully identify, manage and communicate meaningful measures. What's a meaningful measure? It's a measure that matters to your decision makers and demonstrates that your services are making a meaningful difference to the organization. Rebecca provides a framework for defining, analyzing and conveying measures that are meaningful and to your situation--complete with worksheets!
SPEAKING:
Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates
PRICE: $345.00 Member/ $230.00 Student Member/ $400.00 Non-Member
Many in the library world believe librarians have an opportunity to play a vital role in the development and stewardship of publicly accessible collections of research data sets, a process often referred to as data curation. However, working with data is a new, unfamiliar area for many librarians. The Data Curation Profile Toolkit is a set of inter-related resources designed to capture information about data generated by single scientists/scholars/labs based on their needs and preferences for these data. The DCP Toolkit can be used as a means for launching discussions between librarians and faculty, exploring research data needs, and helping to plan for the development of data services.
SPEAKING:
D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University Libraries
Knowledge Management Division Board Meeting
MODERATING
Anne Rogers, Cargill
PRICE: $230.00 Member/ $115.00 Student Member/ $300.00 Non-Member
As technology becomes more prevalent in the library, information specialists are becoming innovators and technologists as well as content managers. They are now actively managing an organization’s information assets (including new technology projects) rather than passively responding to requests. Project management concepts, tools, and techniques discussed in this half-day seminar will help anyone complete technology/knowledge management projects on time and within budget while meeting project goals. Knowledge of PM will help you avoid common pitfalls, such as vague definitions of goals, unrealistic plans, and lack of meaningful schedules. Participants will leave the course understanding how to put together a plan and budget, lead a team, and manage the project through completion.
SPEAKING:
Jennifer Swanson, Charles Stark Draper Laboratories
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/ProjMgmtInfoKnowManagersJenniferSwanson.pdf
Join your SLA colleagues for a networking reception that will be second to none!
MODERATING:
Rebecca Vargha, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
A collaborative session co-developed by the CI, KM, BF and Pharma divisions. As competitive intelligence and information management evolve, collaboration can lead to better results. Speakers will address how to develop insights through collaboration from different perspectives.
MODERATING:
Ellen Naylor, Business Intelligence Source
SPEAKING:
Amy Affelt, Compass Lexecon; Arik Johnson, Aurora WDC; Mary Talley, Talley Partners
In the modern organization, groups of workers lead knowledge development and knowledge sharing (KD/KS) services. In this follow-up presentation, Guy St. Clair will describe how career professionals support an enterprise-wide and unified approach to KD/KS.
SPEAKING:
Guy St. Clair, Columbia University
Change management and focused attention on the bottom line are key drivers for successful information centers. In this way, validated and verifiable results are articulated as milestones and benchmarks for success. More importantly, strategic vision grounded in stakeholder buy-in informs our decisions and leads the change. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to provide relevant and meaningful metrics as the evidentiary support for our strategic initiatives. But what, exactly, should we measure? Why is it important for us to measure these outcomes? Is it important to delineate the results not only in quantitative but also qualitative form? Join us for this exciting inquiry.
MODERATING:
Marianne Giltrud, The Catholic University of America
SPEAKING:
James King, National Institutes of Health; Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates; Juanita Richardson, Dysart & Jones
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/MetricsPerfROI PanelKMCafeJamesKing.pdf
Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's also a radically multidisciplinary, creative challenge that's restructuring the landscapes of publishing, librarianship, communication, and knowledge management. In this talk, Peter Morville defines a pattern language for search and discovery that embraces user psychology and behavior, cross-channel information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology. He identifies design principles that apply across the categories of Web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time. He also explains how future methods and user experience deliverables can help us create better search applications today and invent the improbable discovery tools of tomorrow.
SPEAKING:
Peter Morville, Semantic Studios
Join a discussion of enterprise search successes and challenges from the corporate perspective.
MODERATING:
Nancy Linwood Lewis, DuPont Company
SPEAKING:
Peter Morville, Semantic Studios; Sofiane Kerboub, Abbott Laboratories; Margaret Ostrander, Thomson Reuters; Eileen Quam, State of Minnesota, MN.IT Services
Are you an early adopter trapped in a librarian’s body? Not sure how social media is relevant to your job? Is your workplace afraid of social media? As an information professional, you are well-positioned to take advantage of social media and help it get a foothold where you work. Find out how it’s possible and learn how to get started.
MODERATING:
Anne Rogers, Cargill, Inc.
SPEAKING:
Maria Lettman, Cargill, Inc.
PRICE: $35.00 Member/ $35.00 Student Member/ $35.00 Non-Member
Rich Doody, the PepsiCollaboration analyst, will discuss how to launch a community, create a collaboration strategy, and keep the momentum going. Included will be watch-outs for communities and their leaders and the unique role for KM in delivering effective knowledge sharing regardless of the tool utilized.
SPEAKING:
Rich Doody, PepsiCo
