9th Midwest KM Symposium

Some of the people leading the 9th Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium REGISTRATION open: To register for the event, please click here.  Deadline for registration is on 2 June 2023.   Midwest KM Symposium https://sites.google.com/site/midwestkmcommunity/ Call for Speakers https://sikm.groups.io/g/main/message/10842 SIKM Leaders Community https://sikm.groups.io/g/main CALL FOR SPEAKERS!  We invite all those interested in sharing their insights or lessons learned on any relevant topic directly or indirectly related to knowledge management. Ideas and proposals may be submitted by clicking here. We are open to new experiences and topics.  So please feel free to pitch more than one format -- we're looking for a good mix! The deadline for submission of proposals is May 26, 2023. REGISTRATION open: To register for the event, please click here.  Deadline for registration is on 2 June 2023.   Additional information: The conference rate per night at the KENT STATE UNIVERSITY HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER  https://kentstatehotel.com/  is $115.54 per night including taxes and fees. Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center™ 215 South Depeyster Street, Kent, Ohio 44240     Phone: [phone]   Toll Free: 855.353.4031      Fax: [phone] Participants & friends of the conference are also invited to a per-conference dinner on 15 June.  More details will be announced soon. Stay up to date at the conference site and reply to this thread with any questions you have. The 2023 Planning Team will review all submissions and follow up with speakers.  Every effort will be made to accommodate requests to present.  The Planning Team reserves the right to approve or deny speaker submissions based on content, format and other factors. Offered workshops accepted for the symposium will take place on Thursday, June, 15, 2023.Stay up to date at the conference site and reply to this thread with any questions you have. We look forward to receiving your ideas and proposals! The Planning Team Susan Montgomery Guillermo Galdamez Maggie Starkey Bill Kaplan Ninez Piezas-Jerbi John Hovell Kendra Albright / Co-Lead Linda Hummel / Co-Lead Edwin K. Morris Stan Garfield NINEZ PIEZAS-JERBI is former Chief of the KM Section of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland.  She is also holder of the CILIP Chartership in KM.  After more than 30 years of service at the WTO, she retired in July 2022 and is now based in the USA. She has an Executive Master’s Degree in Positive Leadership and Strategy from the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology in Madrid and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from the University of the Philippines.  Ninez continues to share her expertise and experience in the workplace as KM Consultant and Executive/Professional Development Coach (ICF ACC). She is also a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher (500HR) that promotes physical and mental vitality towards Transformational Leadership.  More information on Ninez can be found on her website, nineznow.com    Stan holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. He leads the SIKM Leaders Community with over 1,100 members globally, and is invited to present at numerous conferences, including KMWorld and the APQC KM Conference. Stan has published over 800 articles on leadership, innovation, knowledge management, communities of practice, enterprise social networks, and social media. He is the author of the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring knowledge management thought leaders. Kendra Albright, Ph.D., is the Goodyear Endowed Professor in Knowledge Management in the School of Information at Kent State University. She has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in knowledge management, including Business Intelligence, Information Economics, and Leadership across four institutions in three countries,

Episode Transcript

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Special feature today, everyone.
This is because you need to know withEdwin k Morse and Pioneer Knowledge
Services in the house.Today we've got five, well,
excuse me, four wonderful folk,uh, and to include myself as five,
four guests that are gonna be talkingabout some event happening in Kent State
University coming up this summer, 2023.

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And it's been a little bit of a vacancybecause of that whole, you know,
illness and the,
and the pandemic and the lockdown andall those sorts of things. But this year,
different face to face, we're doingit and it's called the KM Symposium.
So in the room today, we've gotStan, Linda, and Nina's and Kendra,
and I'm gonna ask each one of them todo a little intro about themselves.

(00:54):
Stan and then Linda.
Okay, thanks Evan.
I'm Stan Garfield coming to you todayfrom beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
In a month from now, I'll be back inmy hometown of Northville, Michigan.
I'm a recoveringknowledge manager who, uh,
retired from Deloitte in 16,
but I've stayed active in thefield since then. Riding, speaking,
leading the S i CAMM Leaders communityand participating in events like this

(01:18):
Midwest CAM Symposium.
Well done Linda.
Hello everyone. This is Linda Hummelfrom Beautiful Cleveland, Ohio.
I am a long-term knowledgemanagement practitioner
and I've actually hosted thisMidwest KM symposium a couple of
years ago.
I find it a great way to stayconnected to my professional network,

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to grow my professional networkand just be with my KM peeps. Very.
Nice. Ninas and then Kendra. Hi.
Everybody, my name is Ninas.
I used to be the head of KM in theWorld Trade Organization in Geneva.
I'm speaking from Ashburn, Virginia, butnow I'm a happy baby retiring .
But I want to stay connectedwith the KM peeps, as Linda said.

(02:04):
Well, welcome and Kendra. Hi.
Everyone. Thanks Edwin. Myname is Kendra Albright.
I'm a the Goodyear Endowed Professorof Knowledge Management at Kent State
University. And if Stanis a recovering KM person,
I am an addict. .
I'm really loving it because we have amaster of science in knowledge management

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and we're so happy to behosting the event on June 16th,
the the Midwest KM Symposium.
And we are all here totalk about this event,
get some juices flowing around that forthose listening to the podcast and those
in the area that can attend.That would be awesome. But Stan,
let's talk about thehistorical perspective.
Can you talk to me about theS I K M, how it got started?

(02:47):
How did this symposium getstarted and what's your role on.
That? Sure. And actually I makedistinction between S SI cam,
which is a global community of knowledgemanagement people and the Midwest CAM
community, which was somethingthat I co-founded in Detroit.
The S I A M Leaders community was foundedin an AP QC conference held in St.
Louis in 2005. And I hosted a luncheon,

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birds of Feather session at a table.
People from the consulting and Systemsintegration industries were invited to
sit at my table, hence the namethat we eventually got of S I K M.
But we talked about knowledgemanagement during lunch.
I asked them at the end if theywanted to continue the discussion.
They all said yes,
I collected their business cards and thes i CAM Leaders community was launched

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with about eight people and we beganto expand it. And today we have, uh,
over 1100 members of thecommunity around the world.
The Midwest came communitystarted much smaller. Uh,
there was a colleague of minein Detroit who worked at Ford.
Sanjay SW up and he and I wouldmeet for lunch once a month.
And our thought was,
there might be some othernow as management people in Detroit besides the two of

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us, we should try to gofind them. So we did.
And the Midwest CAM communitywas launched from the two of us.
We expanded and we got up to about adozen folks and we'd alternate having
meetings at the various member sites oncea month. Uh, somewhere along the line,
after a few years of its existence, wegot the idea to have this symposium.
We thought, uh,
many of our colleagues had triedto present at conferences and been

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rejected,
and we thought it would be nice to havean I opportunity for people who wanted
to speak to do so. So thatwas kind of the origin of it.
The other part of it was to have onethat was convenient for people in the
Midwest that they couldactually drive to. Yeah.
And not have to spenda lot of money. Yeah.
And we'd also thought we'd haveno fee. We'd hold it for free.
So that was the impetus behind it.
The first one was held at LawrenceTechnological University in Detroit in

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2008. So it's now 15 years agothat the first one was held.
We then had the next two in Chicago.We had the next three in Cleveland.
We had one in Cincinnati,we had one virtually,
and now this is gonna be the ninth one.
And we're very pleased thatit will be held in Kent, Ohio.
It is a fabulous story, my friend,
and as you are the persistent curatorof all knowledge and participation

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and engagement,
from my view as the socialleader of building this empire of
connection. Thank you.
And I wanna bring in theco-leaders of this event,
Linda and Kendra, what are the brightstars coming up for this event?
And give us more details please.
Sure. I'll start off. This is Linda.

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One of the things that I likeparticularly about the Midwest KM
Symposium,
and I've been involved with multipleof these communities that Stan
has mentioned and have beenattending this for several years.
But we get people outsideof the Midwest, even.
People really are drawn notonly to come and listen to Stan,

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our legend, our residentlegend in knowledge management,
but other speakers we get.
And we have people who are justbrilliant over the years coming
and generously sharing theirknowledge management best practices,
their lessons learned,
and helping other people coming intothe industry or long-term people like

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me who always are tryingto improve our practices.
Thanks Linda. This is Kendra.
And I would just add to that by sayingthat it's such a unique opportunity for
Kent State to be hosting thissince we do have a newly revised
state-of-the-art curriculum inknowledge management that's been, uh,
a joint effort with the board,the Knowledge management board,

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of which Dan is a very key member.
And so it's also a great opportunityfor our students to get to meet the,
the people that will be at the symposiumas well as presenting themselves.
And the students are veryexcited about this opportunity.
We are looking forward to having arange of people come to Kent State

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and learn about the historyof that university. For those of you who don't know,
Kent State was in the news and acontroversial event happened on
May 4th, 1970 when there were fourstudents shot and killed by the National
Guard for protesting theUS invasion of Cambodia.
One of my reasons for coming to KentState was the fact that they have really

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given this a lot of great thoughtbecause they don't know enough about who
ordered that, the command offire. So there's a lot of mystery,
but they have embraced thetragedy and have learned from it.
And I think it's a wonderful opportunityto come learn a lot about the history
of this really importantevent in the Vietnam War era.

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And there's a lot of other wonderfulthings that people who attend the
conference can see when they cometo Kent and to northeast Ohio,
as well as the Rock and Roll Hall ofFame and the incredible science museum.
The architecture was by payfor those of you who know,
he was the man who didthe pyramid at the Louv.
And so there's a lot ofthings to see and do. That's.

(07:54):
Wonderful.
And thank you for giving that contextuallaydown of other things in the area
that could be of importancefor folks traveling.
So let's talk about theimportance of why can't state,
because I wanna bring up that theywere one of the first universities
to offer a fully online knowledgemanagement master's program

(08:15):
in the United States. Areyou the longest running? To.
My knowledge, I think we are, but we'vemorphed a little bit. We started the,
the Master of Science in InformationArchitecture and Knowledge Management
in 2001. It went online,I believe in 2012.
It's housed in the School of Information,

(08:35):
which has four other master's programs,
two Master of LibrarianInformation Science,
one of which is specificallygeared towards school libraries.
And then we've got a master of scienceand health informatics and a master of
Science and user experience.
And we've also recently streamlinedour program and removed a lot of
redundancies and updated thecurriculum and really made it a

(09:00):
well-oiled machine. Mm-hmm.
that you can complete yourmaster of science in KM in one year if
you went full-time. That's.
Fabulous.
You also have a graduate certificate.I'll just throw this out there too,
is now 12 credit hours.
And all of those 12 credit hours wouldapply if people were interested in going
straight on to the master's programs.
Well, that's a great descriptionof what has been historically,

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and I think it's gonna be a formidableplace to have this event. It's very,
very good to have recurrence of thisface-to-face happen at Kent State.
So more to follow. Please followalong with all the social media.
But before we go around the horn, again,
Nina's is one of the newestmembers of this organization,
or at least in this effort, Nina's,

(09:44):
can you give a little bit about yourhistorical perspective of knowledge
management and what it means toyou and why do you care about this?
Why do I care?
I actually was a statistician beforeI became a knowledge management
practitioner. I just thought statisticswas, it was a lot of information,
but nobody really got it because it'sreally about how to package it in a way

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that people understand it.
And so I had to learn knowledge managementand I thought that that was a good
strategy to use, not to,
to advocate for knowledge managementin my organization. And true enough,
five years later,
I got knowledge management formallyestablished in our secretary at the time,
the place where I was working.
But it's important to me because Ithought that were for technical people who

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are so into their field,
it's very difficult to communicate allthat expertise to people who are trying
to understand it.
And so I think by knowing knowledgemanagement theory and the logic of it and
the why of it, it really helped meunderstand why it is so important, uh,
especially for leaders today. Uh,it's, it's really not about you.
It's about how people want to get thatinformation into something that they

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could act on and workon to produce change.
And that's why it's reallyimportant to me. Thanks.
I wanna wrap things up by just theobservation that this is important because
what Stan had said,
why the why this was createdto begin with was to provide
opportunity and almost an open micnight to what I think is a walk-in

(11:10):
basis of knowledge managementinterests and not have a paywall
stop anybody or anythinglike that. And it's really a,
an endorsement to mentorship andcontinuous learning and professional
development and networking and allthose things that really matter that
sometimes you don't always get at ahigh paid or high or deep pocket type of

(11:32):
conference. But before we go, I'llpass the mic around. Last comments,
last inspirations or what you planon seeing happen at this event
this summer, Stan.
So, uh,
there are three things I'd like to askeveryone listening to this to consider
doing. First of all is if you're possiblyinterested in speaking at the event,
the call for speakers has been put outand you have until May 26th to submit

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your proposal. We'd really welcome anyone,
including those who might be reluctantto speak or might not think that what
they have to speak andpresent is, is of interest.
I assure you that I used to gothrough that myself, but in fact,
people are interestedin what you have to say.
So I would encourage you torespond to the call for speakers.
The second would be,
even if you're not going to speakas to consider attending the event,

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we certainly welcome everyonefrom around the Midwest,
but also as Linda mentioned, peoplecome from all over the country.
So even if you're not in the Midwest,
if you can make it to Ken toOhio for the event on June 16th,
we would welcome you to attend.We'll have a dinner the night before,
which gets to Edwin's pointabout networking where we can all talk and catch up
with each other afterbeing away for a few years.

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And the third thing would be tojoin the SI a m Leaders community.
If you're not a member, it doesn'tcost anything. If you join,
you'll be part of online discussions.
That can be very helpful to you as wellas he attend our monthly calls where we
have interesting speakers and have eversince we started 15 years ago. Thank.
You Stan, Kendra, and then Ninas.
Thanks, Edwin.

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I would just add a couple of thingsabout the conference itself that we have,
the space that we will beusing for the conference.
We'll have also lots ofopportunities for networking.
There will be food and some beveragesand coffee, tea, water, soft drinks.
But we will have opportunities to sitand chat with each other to find some
space where if you wanna have some deeperdiscussions and you wanna do a little

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planning together, you can do that.
We also have the wonderfulNortheast Ohio summer weather,
which is absolutely beautiful. You know,come join us in this wonderful place,
this wonderful weather. You know.
I really like this idea of Stan where hesaid that the people who were rejected
in the big time con conferenceshave an opportunity to come to this

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conference. I really like this idea ofmaking the less visible, more visible.
So I encourage all those camepractitioners, invisible ones,
and not so heard and not so seen toshow your light in this one. Well.
Done, Linda.
Thank you.
I would just add to what everyonehas mentioned is that we actually

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have a lot of experiencein organizing these,
and I'm thrilled to be back withpeople on this organizing committee and
co-chairing with Kendra and meetingnew people like Nina's who have
graciously agreed to help us pullthis all together and have a great
experience for everyone. You know, we'revery inclusive, as Nina has mentioned,

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and Kendra, uh, it's a beautiful location.
I think the inter action with students,
long-term practitioners is goingto add a lot of richness to this
and just add some moreplugs about the area.
We have a beautiful artmuseum that has no entry fee,
and we have nationally award-winningmetro parks here too. So, uh,

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you might wanna stay another day or sofor the whole organizing committee here,
extending a warm invitationfor everyone to join.
And many thanks to Edwin fororganizing this, this podcast.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
It sounds like you're invitingpeople to stay for a week. .
I is what I'm hearing,
like Vacation and Kent explore and become

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knowledgeable. Why not? Yeah, exactly.
I just wanna wrap thingsup with just this concept.
The art of volunteerism is a internal
inspirational, emotional basis.
And this effort that I'vebeen a part of more than once,

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this effort of the Midwest KMSymposium is something that I love
participating in becauseit is enriching for
me. It is professional development for me.
It is a way that I can share andmentor and connect and all those
sorts of things. And it's justa rich basis to begin with.

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I wish there was many more opportunitieslike this around the world,
but maybe next year we'll, we'll duplicateit. That'll be the challenge. Um,
maybe that'll be the,
the call to action isthat we want to reproduce
this in other parts of the world.Who's gonna step up and lead that?
Give us a call. Right, right,Stan. Yeah. Right. All right.

(16:17):
We can change the world. Just takesa minute. Well, thanks everybody.
Thanks for being here, and we'llsee you this summer. Thanks.
Everyone. Thanks Edwin.
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