Joël Van Hoolandt — Fractional CTO | Magma Consulting

If you're interested to get a fresh view on what's knowledge management, just watch this video. It's an interview of Larry Lucardie, CEO of Knowledge Values.

Looking for a knowledge management conference in Europe? Then, save the date for this yearly european conference. 12th European Conference on Knowledge Management - ECKM 2011 University of Passau, Germany 1-2 September 2011 Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany Programme Chair: Prof. Dr. Klaus Bredl University of Augsburg, Germany The conference will be located almost exactly at the geographic centre of Europe. Passau is close to the metropolitan area of Munich. According to a statement attributed to Alexander von Humboldt, Passau is referred to as one of the seven most beautiful towns of the world. Passau is spectacularly located at the confluence of three rivers, one of them being the river Danube, the second longest river of Europe.

Google this week unveiled a limited beta test for its upcoming Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office tool, giving its customers a way to utilize its Google Docs service with Microsoft's popular Office suite in a fairly seamless fashion. The tool is billed as a way for Google customers to more easily migrate, over time, from Microsoft Office to the less capable (but free) Google Docs. "Google Docs [is] 100% web: It provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade," Google Group Product Manager Shan Sinha wrote in a blog post announcing the tool. "With Cloud Connect, people can continue to use the familiar [Microsoft] Office [applications], while reaping many of the benefits of web-based collaboration that Google Docs users already enjoy." Google Cloud Connect works with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010, providing users with a way to sync documents to Google's Docs-based services. Because these documents ...

Despite the financial crisis, the European Commission has communicated some crucial agenda points for an innovative union: EU and member states need to continue to invest in education, R&D, innovation and ICT. Those investments should be performed hand in hand with reforms to get more value for money and tackle fragmentation. Our education systems at all levels should be modernized. Researchers and innovators must be able to work and to cooperate across the EU as easily as within national borders. Access to EU programmes must be simplified and their leverage effect on private sector investment enhanced, with the support of the European Investment Bank. We need to get more innovation out of our research. Remaining barriers for entrepreneurs to bring 'ideas to market' must be removed (better access to finance, affordable Intellectual Property rights etc.) European Innovation Partnerships should be launched to accelerate research, development and market deployment of innovati...

Have a look at the video that some librarians made some days ago. It highlights the social dimension, the service minded approach of this profession and all the kind of information you can get in a library (and not on Google ebook or on Amazon). As they believe, I thought that knowledge sharing was not on the Internet only, but also on the coffee machine or in a reading room....?? So, maybe yes, they're right...libraries will survive !!

KPMG International has released an interesting paper on Web 2.0 technologies within the public sector...you can find the document on several KPMG web sites, like on the Belgian site (the official title is 'Dynamic technologies for smarter government' and is available in PDF format).