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"This link to the pages of the KIN SNA ALG giving lots of useful presentations, documents and member case studies and the KIN SNA toolkit"

This blog was initiated following a KIN WEB 2.0 Roundtable event as a way of sharing items relating to that topic. Any KIN members that would like to participate in adding entries to this blog, email me and I will set you up as an author

Social robotics and artificial intelligence conference 14th & 15th Sept 2016. KIN members can get £200 discount using the offer code available on the KIN Announcements page

BrightCarbon have trained KIN members Sever Trent Water in creating punchy animations using PowerPoint. This will be one aspect of what STW will be showing at the KIN Summer 2016 workshop.

"'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article from Business Week Magazine. The Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. The importance of particular kinds of diversity are also explored. If you want to know more about Prediction Markets, we are building a considerable KIN resource on this here and the KIN Quarterly Workshop on 2nd December will cover this topic. Thanks go to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing out this fascinating article. "

"This Action learning study led by out KIN associate Jenny Ambrozec will take place over three months from 1st December and the results will be shown at the KIN Spring workshop so take part or find out more about the study, then follow this link."

The theme for the forthcoming KIN Workshop (1st December 2015) is "Knowledge in Action". Hopefully a title that will resonate with anyone who practices knowledge management, since it reminds us that knowledge without some form of action is worthless

Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at WBS looks at how mental manipulation can be backed by good intentions - but when used with stealth, it is deceitful and wrong. Nudge theory will be one of the talks at the KIN Winter Workshop

"Discussion led by Michael Mol of proposed KIN Innovation SIG framework. This should be used in conjunction with Michael's slides available at http://members.ki-network.org/innovation/SIG%20Document%20Library/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=18&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.ki-network.org%2Finnovation%2FSIG%2520Document%2520Library%2FForms%2FAllItems.aspx&RootFolder=%2Finnovation%2FSIG%20Document%20Library"

"When we had a Management Buy-in Sig within KIN, they used the Action Learning approach to MBI in their own organisations, their completed templates can be found by following his link. This gives a good indication of how these templates can be used in practice and may be of some value to those exploring this approach for the first time."

" This venue is in the heart of Warwickshire, only 15 mins from Warwick Parkway train station, set in beautiful grounds and offering recently refurbished hotel accomodation, plus a state of the art conference centre and spa facilities, which will be available to KIN Workshop attendees."

"Trampoline, who are presenting at The KIN 'Locate, Collect, Connect' quarterly workshop, have been attending the 'Enterprise 2.0' event in Boston. Here they blog about what's different, what makes a great party and what's hot (certainly not the toaster!)"

" Link to KIN group on face-book - interesting articles on here form Jenny Ambrozec. For more information about how to join this group - please contact Phil Ridout"

Clickable Powerpoint version of the KIN KRT Framework

Mentioned at several KIN events including the Lessons Learned RoundTable

BrightCarbon - used by KIN members Severn Trent Water to tring in visual presentation techniques, such as advanced animations in PowerPoint

KIN has long stressed the importance of learning from failure. In this short, funny and revealing post, David D'Souza publicly shares his experience of what not to do in a TV interview. His post uses humour, it's punchy (note the bullet points) and is in the first-person. I doubt I'll ever be on TV, but everyone could immediately relate to and learn from this. Now that's real learning from failure - the antithesis of a dry 'lessons learned' report.

Nick Temple is one of our speakers at the KIN Winter 2012 workshop

How much does serendipity play in the sharing of ideas and developing new insights in organisations? KIN is going to talk to the SerenA project to find out.

Dr Garcia is one of our KIN speakers at the Winter Workshop  on 3rd December organisational change - making it stick'. She will take a look at taken-for-granted assumptions underpinning current organisational and managerial practices and behaviour