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My students at KNU

My students here at KNU are awesome. Even though the subject matter we are discussing at Knowledge management and Knowledge Management Systems course is highly complex and requires constant interplay between strategic vs. operational, organizational vs. individual, and organizational vs. technological mindset, not to mention the language barrier, my students have been doing great. The results of each assignment and homework are better, and I am very pleasantly surprised by just how complex and deep-thought their group assignments, in which they needed to design a KM solution for a chosen (real life!) business context, were.

Over the 4 weeks they have demonstrated interest, eagerness to learn, and a lot of effort was invested in learning. This is the way to go, my dear students - no wonder you are perceived as one of the best in the country. Thank you for this opportunity, it was a steep learning curve for me, too.

A 3-day getaway to Seoul

I am still in Korea at KNU in Daegu and the teaching, grading, coordinating the course and students, while also trying to do things for back home, take 120% of my time. Anyway I just had a 3-day escape to the capital, Seoul, and had a blast. If you want to know why, read all about it in my short photo report…

Great “joint” publishing opportunities at ISOneWorld 2008

I am happy to announce that besides having distinguished Larry Prusak (keynote) and Bill King (special session) as speakers for the forthcoming ISOneWorld 2008, the relevant papers accepted and presented in its KM track which I am co-chairing will also be considered for potential publication in 1) IJKM-International Journal of Knowledge Management, and 2) the “KM Technology special issue” of »Knowledge Management Research & Practice« journal.

Great opportunity for getting out the research, I’d say ;)

And the second volume of the special issue is out…

Also the second the second volume of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing special issue on Knowledge Management Systems that I co-guest edited with Yukika Awazu (Bentley College) and Vincent Ribiere (NY Institute of Technology) has now appeared in press. There are 5 interesting papers in it, 2 from the States, 1 from Canada, 1 from UK and 1 from Australia. I hope we did a good job selecting those papers from a competitive bunch that we have received. As a co-editor, I would like to wish our readers a good and thoughtful read ;)

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Blogging from KNU, Daegu, Korea (1)

January 2, 2008 - An exciting first day of the classes. 44 students of my Knowledge management and Knowledge Management Systems course greeted me warmly and expressed their interest both in the subject matter and in the multicultural experience. I would expect nothing less from them, as KNU has been ranked among top 3 national universities in Korea and top 500 in the World. They are getting ready for the best positions in world’s top companies such as Samsung and LG (both originally coming from the Daegu area) — KNU’s graduates outnumbered all the other university graduates in Samsung Electronics, in example — and the positive and ‘learning’ vibe could be felt in my class and can be felt all around the campus. The campus and my hosts here are amazing. The older buildings are being replaced by hi-tech ones and the support from the staff is excellent. The office of international affairs, especially dr. Jae Kee Song, Mrs Lorne Hwang, and Ms Heejoung Woo, are taking care for all the details of my and my 7 other colleagues’ stay here. The highlight of theses pampering details was the reception by the vice presidents for int affairs at the beginning of our term, which was followed by an excellent dinner.

December 31, 2007 - the travel from Ljubljana through Paris to Seoul went smoothly. I especially enjoyed Adria’s business class ride (thanks for the upgrade, whoever is to blame for that ;)). After a snowy 4-hour drive on the limo-bus, I end up in Daegu. First impression: syberian cold wind will drive me nuts. Jinyeong Kim, my student assistant here at KNU, took me to a coffee place first, to get myself together, and this was exactly what I needed. A warm caffeine fix and a local-expert-briefing on what’s hot and what’s not - knowledge sharing/learning par excellence… An hour of beauty sleep and I was ready to celebrate the (western) New Year - Koreans take it easy and celebrate it twice, on Dec 31st and the Lunar one (around February). Nice attitute, and a nice /though bitterly cold/ evening on the streets of Daegu. Shot some photos & a video.