SIKM Leaders Community

SIKM Leaders Community

The SIKM Leaders Community, originally named the Systems Integration Knowledge Management Leaders Community, is a community of Knowledge Management leaders from firms around the world. It was created in 2005 by Stan Garfield for Systems Integration and Consulting firms, but soon expanded to include all Knowledge Management leaders. The goal is to share experiences and insights on implementing Knowledge Management programs.

Stan, who is still leading the community, was Community Evangelist at Deloitte Global Knowledge Services and Worldwide Knowledge Management Lead at Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computer Corp. He is now retired, acting as author, speaker and community leader in the field of Knowledge Management.

The Systems Integration KM Leaders Community offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

Chapters

  • SIKM Global Group (start: Aug 2005)
    • SIKM Community Champions
  • SIKM Boston Chapter (start: Jan 2009)
  • SIKM NYC Group (Dec 2015 – Dec 2016)
  • SIKM San Francisco Bay Area Group (start: Sep 2018)

Training

  • Would you like to have a KM MENTOR? Peer Mentoring Programme for KM practitioners (start: 2023; w. KM4Dev)
      Feb 2024: KM Peer Mentoring Pilot Debrief

Conferences

  • Midwest Knowledge Management (KM) Symposium*
    (Organizer: Midwest KM Community; Pioneer Knowledge Services)

Meetings

  • Monthly SIKM Leaders Community Calls
    List of Community Calls
    Usually on the third Tuesday of the month; Meeting platform; Member access to schedule w. links to past calls’ follow-ups (incl. slides, recordings, etc.; Registration required!); Since 2017 supported by Susan Ostreicher

  • Chapter meetings
    List of Meetings
  • SIKM Peer Assists, Knowledge Cafes, Fishbowls, etc.
  • Get-togethers @ KM events (mainly at KMWorld conference)
    • 13th SIKM Leaders Community Get-together at KMWorld, Nov 9, 2022
    • 12th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner/Meetup at KMWorld, Nov 16, 2020 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 11th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2019 (Orga: Susan Hanley, Arno Boersma, Neesham Spitzberg)
    • 10th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 7, 2018 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 9th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 7, 2017 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 8th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 16, 2016 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 7th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 3, 2015 (Orga: Arno Boersma and Neesham Spitzberg)
    • 6th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2014 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 5th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2013 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • (informal) APQC KM Conference SIKM Leaders Community Dinner, May 2, 2013
    • 4th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Oct 18, 2012 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • APQC KM Conference SIKM Leaders Community Dinner, Apr 26, 2012 (Orga.: Linda Hummel)
    • 3th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 2, 2011 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
      (joint event with the Knowledge Management Education Forum)
    • 2nd SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 17, 2010 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 1st SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 17, 2009 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
  • Group Conversations
    Latest conversations

    • May 14, 2024
      Re: How to Contribute to This Community
      On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM, Linda Lavelle wrote: Is there a directory of local chapters available? From my list of KM Communities, here are ten (not all are still active): 1.     Atlanta: Atlant …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      Hi Stan, I appreciate the quick response and help. For now (PoC), I would request the export of 'member list', 'messages' and 'hashtags'. The moderator role will be neede …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 07:14 AM, Rachad Najjar wrote: I was confronted with one limitation: I couldn't export all the messages from the SIKM group and have them locally on my machine for AI trai …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: How do I change my email address in Groups.io?
      >Please change my email address or advise me on how to change it.Changing Your Email Address Important – your email address is your account ID. Log into Groups.io. Note: If you don't have a pa …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: How to Contribute to This Community
      >I need someone to take me through how to be active on this platform and how to post content. To be active, follow the advice in this post. To start a new post, click on New Topic in the left menu …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      Hi Angshumala, I agree with the paid APIs for vendors. For this KM GPT initiative, I would recommend open-source LLM (and orchestration framework), even if it's not plug-and-play as in paid vendo …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      Yeh, can be done but there is a cost associated.  Apart from API, storage cost, subscription cost are other costs that we will need to keep in mind. Even to use ChatGPT4.o we would need to upgrade and …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      Hi Rory, I had a similar idea once for the SIKM discussions. I was confronted with one limitation: I couldn't export all the messages from the SIKM group and have them locally on my machine for A …
    • May 14, 2024
      Re: A KM AI?
      This is taken directly from ChatGPT4o:Yes, it is possible to use the ChatGPT API to create a system with memory and integrate it into an email group for summarization and analysis. However, there are …
    • May 14, 2024
      A KM AI?
      There is so much rich content in SIKM and other well known KM sources, I wonder has anyone considered setting up a specific KM GPT as a resource for the community? I could see this being really useful …

Web Channels

SIKM on Groups.io (discussion forum) SIKM on freeconferencecall (videoconferencing) SIKM on slideshare (documents) SIKM Boston on PBworks (wiki) SIKM Boston on twitter (microblogging)
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