I just received the latest copy of my Gurteen Knowledge Management Newsletter. If you’ve never met David Gurteen … in the virtual sense, and are interested in KM, visit his web site!

One of the items I found of interest in the newsletter was the Wikipedia Knowledge Management link.  The entry has really grown, and has all kinds of information, references, and links. Take a look.

I intend to both attend and speak at eLearning DevCon 2007. My two presentations at DevCon will revolve around knowledge
management. Specifically, I will speak to the internal corporate use of
blogs, wikis, and tagging tools. Although I’ve never been to this particular conference before, there are several key points which attract me … and I would challenge you to consider when looking for your own professional development events:

• This is a working conference … focused on good topics.
• Golf courses are NOT near by
• Attendees actually live in dorms (University of Utah)

These three facts may not seem like much, but when one stops to consider that the main value in any conference is your fellow attendees, and what you can learn from them, the immersion method (i.e. dorm rooms) will help encourage collaboration. I really can’t stress this point to highly. As the cost of the conference escalates, and the lodging resorts become fancier, one’s learning suffers.

Last year I attended Wikimania (my thoughts),
and stayed in the Harvard Law School dorms. It was a great experience.
If your travel budget allows, this year’s event will be in Taiwan. (Wikimania 2007)

This is way off topic, but of personal interest.  Most folks have heard about all the fires in California.  After all, it’s California … Hollywood, millions of people, leading edge culture.

Here in Minnesota we are dealing with much BIGGER forest fires.  I own a small northwoods cabin. Although my cabin is safe, you may enjoy this photo of the "water bomber" taken from my dock.  The plane swoops down, scoops up water without stopping, and then makes a bombing run on the fire. I’ve also included this link to a story about the forest fires. The size of the fire is 86 square miles, and growing.
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On this blog, and other places you’ve heard about Web / Enterprise 2.0.  However, what does this concept really mean?  If you’re not certain, I invite you to view this video by Professor Wesch from Kansas State University:

• Web 2.0 Video / Tutorial (via CoRrElate)

Well … this is nothing fancy, but I’ve built my own eContent blog language translation service using Google.

• eContent Blog Translations (linked also from the header and right column)