Information Mapping Canada News & Events  
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May 2009
Issue 1 | Vol 4

 
   
  Selling the C-Suite on Results

 

 

Seminar Schedule

Mapping Business Communications (LINK)


" Fredericton, NB: June 8-9

" Montreal, PQ: June 8-9

" Toronto, Ottawa June 22-23

Developing Usable Content and Documentation(LINK)


" Toronto, ON: June 15-17

" Ottawa, ON:  June 15-17

" Montreal, PQ:  June 15-17


Graduate Seminar (LINK)


- June 10 2009 - Fredericton


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Webinar: Information Mapping: What is it? Why use it?


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Convincing higher ups in your organization that employee training is a worthwhile investment can be a daunting task. Knowing what success measurements your executive suite cares about is even harder. In a recent article in Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Chris Moore discusses how working with executives before launching a training program can help you measure its success in terms that your stakeholders care about. Moore explains, "If you're sitting at the table with the executive team that defines the success criteria, you've got to leverage that opportunity to build a bridge to the measures to collect."

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  Intellipedia Midlife Crisis
   
In last month's News and Events newsletter, Debbie Kenny wrote an article called Social Media What's in it for Mappers? In it, she discussed the many ways that Mappers have been using Social Media to share information, do business, and interact both personally and professionally.

To continue the discussion, we'd like to share another article from a site called Read Write Web In this article by Frederic Lardinois, discusses the challenges the U.S. Intelligence Agency is facing while trying to implement a wiki-based knowledge share project. The challenges agencies are facing are similar to what many organizations face when introducing new technology, such as

  • Is it necessary to force people to participate in knowledge sharing?
  • How do you get people to be comfortable with using a social networking tool?
  • How do you create standards so that there is consistency and uniformity in the way information is shared?

Read the full article to learn more and read online comments about this article.


  Upcoming Webinar Series
   
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