Category: Knowledge Management

Maximizing your marketing & communications production through three information management practices

March 24, 2018

Here’s a question for those working in organizations with the responsibility of promoting work, winning awards, and creating content: How long would it take a new employee on your team to perform these 10 queries?: Find all photos taken by a particular photographer in the last five years. Find all past documentation used in applying … More Maximizing your marketing & communications production through three information management practices

Why all #facilitiesmanagers need to be #informationstewards

March 11, 2018

When an informational professional works in facilities… My first job out of library school was working in the facilities and real estate division of a well funded Ivy League university situated on a large urban campus. I was hired as a digital archivist and data manager in the Office of the University Architect, and my … More Why all #facilitiesmanagers need to be #informationstewards

Why every organization should maintain a #blacklist

February 8, 2018

A few months ago, I wrote a fairly comprehensive post on explaining the various types of red lists that professionals in the natural and built environment industry might encounter. Essentially, red lists can symbolize things at risk such as flora or fauna, or it can be used to highlight things that are harmful, such as … More Why every organization should maintain a #blacklist

#Gamification and avoiding the technology trap

February 1, 2018

Motivation before technology Pick up any book on knowledge management and it will no doubt share a case study on the technology trap, where institutions attempt to make best use of their organizational knowledge by primarily thinking about the problem from an IT perspective centered around software and hardware. Instead of strategizing how to build … More #Gamification and avoiding the technology trap

Three screen capture strategies for creating a culture of #knowledge #sharing

January 20, 2018

In any organization, there always comes a time when you perform a rather complex sequential order of events on a computer application, and you’d like to be able to share this process with others. Maybe it’s the 10 step process for setting up a new office printer, and all your colleagues would benefit from having … More Three screen capture strategies for creating a culture of #knowledge #sharing

Schedules: planting, retention, in blueprints, and projects

January 6, 2018

My intended audience for this blog is anyone who feels connected to organizations that are empowered by the natural and built environment. Organizations fitting this bill could be land trusts, architecture firms, town governments, and even higher ed institutions. You could be a graphic designer for an engineering firm who appreciates multidisciplinary settings, or perhaps … More Schedules: planting, retention, in blueprints, and projects

Benchmarking #professionaldevelopment resources in #green professional societies: APPA; APGA; and ASLA

October 27, 2017

Each year we pay anywhere from a hundred dollars to even a few thousands dollars to maintain membership and CEUs in professional societies in the green profession. Sometimes its required of us by our employers or even a regulatory agency, and then sometimes there’s member groups or organizations that we’re just drawn to and recognize … More Benchmarking #professionaldevelopment resources in #green professional societies: APPA; APGA; and ASLA

Does your #nonprofit know about #KnowledgeManagement?

September 18, 2017

I first learned about the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) back in 2012 as I was preparing to enter library school, and it immediately sparked my interest for its total systems thinking approach to handling the creation, distillation, and transfer of knowledge and information within an organization. Unlike traditional library science norms, KM is rooted … More Does your #nonprofit know about #KnowledgeManagement?

My thoughts on Yammer as a tool for Architects and firms

August 31, 2017

I’ve been systems administrator and community manager for my company’s Yammer network for about two years now, and I’d like to briefly share what I’ve learned and experienced from this product so far. For those not familiar with Yammer, its social platform designed for companies to communicate, discuss, and share knowledge internally. The concept and … More My thoughts on Yammer as a tool for Architects and firms