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MENU -- [|1. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?] --  [|2. INDEX OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WEBSITES]  [|A]  [|B] [|C]  [|D] [|E]  [|F] [|G]  [|H] [|I]  [|J] [|K]  [|L] [|M]  [|N] [|O]  [|P] [|Q]  [|R] [|S]  [|T] [|U]  [|V] [|W]  [|X] [|Y]  [|Z]  --  [|3. GUIDE TO THIS SITE]

GUIDE TO THIS INDEX 

This website has been created as an assignment for LIBR170 - Abstracting and Indexing Information Sources, part of the [|Canberra Institute of Technology, Library and Information Services Advanced Diploma Course.]

A specialist internet directory is not an index. An index needs to be an indexing of a specific work or works, whereas a directory is merely a listing of websites on specific topics. This lead me to create an article to be indexed, with links from the article to the index, and from the index to information from websites on the chosen topic.

The topic for the index was knowledge management as it related to library studies, and it was something I had recently studied and had allot of websites and information gathered about it.

MENU -- [|1. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?] --  [|2. INDEX OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WEBSITES]  [|A]  [|B] [|C]  [|D] [|E]  [|F] [|G]  [|H] [|I]  [|J] [|K]  [|L] [|M]  [|N] [|O]  [|P] [|Q]  [|R] [|S]  [|T] [|U]  [|V] [|W]  [|X] [|Y]  [|Z]  --  [|3. GUIDE TO THIS SITE]

METHOD FOR CREATING THE INDEX 

STEP ONE: I began by using articles on knowledge management to get keywords for use in the index. I also looked at chapters of books, glossaries from books, and websites for further keywords/topics to use.

STEP TWO: Once I had created a large index, with ‘see’ and ‘see also’ references, I attempted to find websites which related to each item in the index. At first I attempted to stick primarily to a chosen list of websites, this way only those websites would be indexed, however this did not cover the topic widely enough, and internet searches for further information were undertaken. As the index was effectively an index of all these websites, multiple links were made available on each item in the index

During this process the index had to be further refined - new items for inclusion were discovered, some items in the index were discarded as unrelated to the subject, and some items that were on their own needed to be subsumed as sub-headings under other items, and vice versa.

Some websites are repeated as they cover multiple subject areas (as would occur in an index, which is another way in which an index is different to a simple internet directory). For example, almost all of the websites under the topic ‘Government’ can be found under other items in the index. Some of the best websites on the topic of Knowledge Management, and the ones primarily indexed for this site are:

KmWiki - "a collaborative persistent 'conversation' on all matters related to knowledge management". http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/ American Productivity and quality centre http://www.apqc.org Brint http://www.brint.com INC. Magazine http://www.inc.com/

Etienne Wenger http://www.ewenger.com/ Shawn Callahan and Mark Shenk at Anecdote.com http://www.anecdote.com.au/ Karl Wiig http://www.krii.com/articles.htm

Community Intelligence Labs http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/index.shtml Evan Carmichael http://www.evancarmichael.com/ Fast company magazine http://www.fastcompany.com

ALIA http://www.alia.org.au Knowledge Management World http://www.kmworld.com

Verna Allee http://www.vernaallee.com Karl-Eric Sveiby http://www.sveiby.com.au

Richard McDermott http://www.mcdermottconsulting.com

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ ACT Knowledge Management http://www.actkm.org/ http://www.actkm.org/articles.php Buckman Laboratories http://knowledge-nurture.com/

Teaching Entry Level Geoscience http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/index.html Gerry Stahl http://www.gerrystahl.net/publications/ CogNexus Institute http://cognexus.org/

John Seely-Brown http://www.johnseelybrown.com/bio.html David Gurteen http://www.gurteen.com/ Knowledge Board http://www.knowledgeboard.com/

KM Resource http://www.kmresource.com/exp.htm The Manager http://www.themanager.org/Knowledgebase/Management/Knowledge.htm David Skyrme http://www.skyrme.com/insights/index.htm

MENU -- [|1. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?] --  [|2. INDEX OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WEBSITES]  [|A]  [|B] [|C]  [|D] [|E]  [|F] [|G]  [|H] [|I]  [|J] [|K]  [|L] [|M]  [|N] [|O]  [|P] [|Q]  [|R] [|S]  [|T] [|U]  [|V] [|W]  [|X] [|Y]  [|Z]  --  [|3. GUIDE TO THIS SITE]

 STEP THREE: After finding websites for the topics in the index, I wrote an article called ‘What is knowledge management?’ which encompassed the items in the index, and linked the items in the article to the index.

STEP FOUR: This guide was written and included. MENU -- [|1. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?] --  [|2. INDEX OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WEBSITES]  [|A]  [|B] [|C]  [|D] [|E]  [|F] [|G]  [|H] [|I]  [|J] [|K]  [|L] [|M]  [|N] [|O]  [|P] [|Q]  [|R] [|S]  [|T] [|U]  [|V] [|W]  [|X] [|Y]  [|Z]  --  [|3. GUIDE TO THIS SITE]

CONCLUSION 

This website http://wikispaces.com/knowledgeindex has three pages. 1.	An ‘article’ on knowledge management which has been indexed. 2.	An ‘index’ of knowledge management terms with multiple links within the index and to outside websites. 3.	A ‘guide to this site’ page outlining the reasons behind the creation of this site.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF WIKISPACES.COM – I discovered that when using wikispaces.com, unless you ‘sign out’ after each session, the computer you use will keep you signed in. This means the next person using the computer can activate your account and access your site. Make sure you’ sign out’. PaulDN 13.05.2010