Posted by Denham on April 26, 2000 at 08:57:04:

In Reply to: KM managers' information needs posted by Donna Boxsell on April 26, 2000 at 02:24:56:

Greetings Donna,

This assigment puts you on the horns of a dilemma. There are few established and definitive literature sources for KM, the issues and interests keep shifting, new application areas and technologies emerge each month, the field keeps getting wider and more diffuse. The more you become prescriptive, the greater the risk you will miss emergent trends and key issues which are currently peripheral. Having added that caveat, let me see if I can be more helpful!

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News services are few and far between and their quality varies. Here is a compilation: KM News Sources
Sources on the web are dispersed and change all the time Static, original publications & repositories on the web
Message boards, listservs and forums for fast breaking news and community KM Forums
Useful to belong to a professional association. KM Professional Associationa
Knowledge portals are starting to make their appearance. KM Portals
There is an embrionic knowledge marketplace. KM Exchanges & markets

The Knowledge Management Yearbook (1999) mailto:jwoods@execpc.com is an excellent compilation of sources and resources in this area.

It pays to build a pesonal network as many of the interesting KM papers circulate prior to publication and people are the key to knowledge and information access in a fast moving emergent area such as KM. Knowledge flows via relationships and conversation rather than through documents making it wise to link to people first.

Good luck, contact me if you are looking for more leads as this is a speciality area of mine. Do not forget Brint itself, a mine of KM information.

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