I attended the KM Australia conference last week in rainy wintery conditions at the Melbourne Convention Centre. I stayed at the Medina Apartments as usual - very nice, reasonably priced and central. I really like apartments as you always have more room and more options to cater for yourself (not that I did that this trip).
View from the apartment window about 7am
The conference was good, I will talk about what I have learned in another post, however there were two highlights for me.
I caught up with Jo a friend from Uni days, who now lives in Lake Macquarie. We had a good chat and then went to dinner with her husband Peter who came to visit Melbourne.
The conference had a least 6 international speakers, which is too many in my opinion, and some were better than others. However one night we went out for dinner with three of the speakers, plus the convener and others from the Victorian KM Round Table group. We went to Longrain in Little Bourke Street. We had a banquet at the restaurant. The food was divine, many courses, even desert that I liked. I talked to Gene from Alberta, Canada who has a lot to say about social tagging - so much so that he has written a book on it. Jeff from New York, USA who gave a master class on web 2.0 on the last day and was an excellent teacher. I sat next to Thomas from Switzerland, who spoke excellent English and has nearly finished his PHD (September) then he plans to travel to the UK or the US for work - he specialises in social network analysis. He is torn between continuing to be an academic (more freedom to choose what he works on) and joining a research organisation (less choice about what he works on and when).
The theme for me recently has been learning learning and learning - which is great as I need this stimulation. With that in mind you might want to look at this blog that talks about how learning is changing Internet time
I really like this quote from the above blog - which explains why I like working where I do!!
I caught up with Jo a friend from Uni days, who now lives in Lake Macquarie. We had a good chat and then went to dinner with her husband Peter who came to visit Melbourne.
The conference had a least 6 international speakers, which is too many in my opinion, and some were better than others. However one night we went out for dinner with three of the speakers, plus the convener and others from the Victorian KM Round Table group. We went to Longrain in Little Bourke Street. We had a banquet at the restaurant. The food was divine, many courses, even desert that I liked. I talked to Gene from Alberta, Canada who has a lot to say about social tagging - so much so that he has written a book on it. Jeff from New York, USA who gave a master class on web 2.0 on the last day and was an excellent teacher. I sat next to Thomas from Switzerland, who spoke excellent English and has nearly finished his PHD (September) then he plans to travel to the UK or the US for work - he specialises in social network analysis. He is torn between continuing to be an academic (more freedom to choose what he works on) and joining a research organisation (less choice about what he works on and when).
The theme for me recently has been learning learning and learning - which is great as I need this stimulation. With that in mind you might want to look at this blog that talks about how learning is changing Internet time
I really like this quote from the above blog - which explains why I like working where I do!!
Workers need to be able to assess new situations, learn in real time, and improvise solutions. That’s an entirely new learning agenda, for it means putting enough trust in workers to give them the wheel.
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