KM4D Journal

(Francophone issue of the journal to be published in December 2011)

Appel à contributions : Invitation à publier votre article !
Premier numéro francophone du “Knowledge Management for Development Journal”

Nous avons le plaisir de lancer un appel à contributions pour le premier numéro francophone du journal “Knowledge Management for Development” (KM4Dev) dont la parution est prévue en décembre 2011.

Ce premier numéro sera consacré à la gestion, circulation et au partage des
connaissances en milieu francophone sans thématique particulière. Ainsi, cette édition privilégiera une approche pluraliste et les articles soumis pourront être des études de cas, des notes communautaires, des travaux de recherche, des articles publiés sur des blogs, etc.

Les articles, de 2 000 à 6 000 mots, ainsi qu’un court résumé de 200 mots, doivent être envoyés par courriel au plus tard le 1er juin 2011 à l’adresse suivante KM4DEVFR@gmail.com

C’est une excellente opportunité pour partager votre vision de la gestion et du partage des connaissances pour le développement ! Les personnes intéressées sont invitées à nous contacter pour plus de renseignements à l’adresse suivante : KM4DEVFR@gmail.com

Le journal anglophone “Knowledge Management for Development” existe depuis 2005. La communauté de pratique KM4Dev et sa branche francophone SA-GE mettent l'accent sur la gestion et le partage des connaissances pour le développement. Cela comprend diverses approches de gestion des connaissances dans les organisations de développement, grandes et petites, au Sud comme au Nord. Nous cherchons à faciliter
la fertilisation croisée entre la gestion des connaissances et les domaines connexes.

Les instructions pour les auteurs peuvent être consultées à l’adresse suivante, en français: http://www.a-i-a.com/sage/Instructions.pdf

Pour le Comité du Journal KM4DEV FR:

• Jean Mège: http://www.km4dev.org/profile/JeanMege?xg_source=profiles_memberList
• Joël Muzard: http://www.km4dev.org/profile/JoelMuzard?xg_source=profiles_memberList

Bonsoir,

Merci de m'accueillir dans cet espace d'échange et de partage.

Bonne fin de semaine

Pascal Bernardon

Vos Connaissances et votre savoir-faire : un capital à valoriser

Greetings,

I wanted to ask a question, and it seems I  have to be a member of this group in order to do that. So, is this the place to inquire about/request/apply for such membership?

While I'm at it, my question concerns backissues, prior to Taylor and Francis taking over: At the latter site, it appears that only vol. 5 and later is available. What about vols. 1-4?

PS. This all started because it seems that an article I co-authored for vol. 2 appears to be available with different page numbers.

Dear Lars

Apologies that this has taken me some time to get back to you, Issue 1-4 is on the OJS wesbite at: http://journal.km4dev.org/index.php/km4dj

And your article can be found at: http://journal.km4dev.org/index.php/km4dj/article/viewFile/57/99

But ytou didn't really need to join this group to get in touch:  you could also send me an email.

Best wishes

Sarah

Nancy just posted this idea on the mailing list:  

It might be fun to have a little side group to discuss one or more articles each month. Maybe on our NING site as a way to also see how we can have some side conversations and weave them back into the larger communities. Anyone interested in a journal club? Organizing a first conversation focus?

Gada Kodada and Tariq Zaman already indicated their interest... Anyone up for joining/ leading this?

Can some of you please check http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rkmd20 to see if you have full access to all volumes of the journal? If that's the case it's great (according to T&F policy, it shouldn't be the case actually)!

Hi Ewen,

I have access to volumes 5-7. I would be interested in a monthly article chat. Look forward to hearing more about this.

A few people have asked how to join this group. You need to join the KM4Deve NING site first, and then this group. Here are three screen shots to walk you through the process. The first is from http://www.km4dev.org -- the home page. The second is from the registration page you go to when you click "join" and the third is this Journal page where, in the upper right hand corner, you can join this group. Holler if you have any questions.

Hi Ewen and Nancy

YES, I would love to join the journal club (not as facilitator but as interested reader and commenter), thanks for your initiative.

NO I do not have access to the journal (T&F will be happy).

Cheers, Claudia

So people are starting to show up here... terrific. We'll need to resolve the issue of getting an article easily shared. Sarah, any ideas on that?

Hi Nancy, I've already posted the article suggested by Melissa under resources. There are also other articles appearing on the wiki (we're still not up to date) but I think there is no problem for individual articles.

Excellent. For those reading and not fully awake (like me) just look above this discussion post to the resources. There are two articles, Sarah, which one is the starterd?

Do we want to set a "please ready by" date?

We might also want to post a reminder on the DGroups list to encourage others over here. It is not always that obvious! Thanks Sarah and Ewen!

The starter article is the resource above ''Making innovation systems work in practice". I think a ''please be ready'' date is a good idea. When would you suggest, Nancy? This article was your suggestion, Melissa, how would you like to go about this?

To respond to Ewen (his post dated 20120315 below).

Today I can see 

Volume 7, Issue 1, 2011

on http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rkmd20/current

I can also see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19474199.asp 

What about you?

Ik keep finding the sites (why two  different ones?) pretty confusing, never knowing if I see the latest issue or not. Never clear if I should login or not.

Actually on the http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rkmd20/current I seem not to be able to login!?

On http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19474199.asp one doesn't seem to have to login.

Can someone explain this? And update our wiki pages with a roadmap on using the websites of the KM4Dev journal? Thanks! 

I see that I cannot edit an earlier post :-( Feels primitive after having become used to Google+ ! One day we will switch over ;-)

I meant to refer to Ewen's post of last friday (not dated yet, another weird characteristic of Ning chat.

Okay, so we start with the starter article (in the resources section | just scroll up here on this page till you see the resources block above)  ''Making innovation systems work in practice"

I could have read it say by Saturday evening (CET).

Where will we chat? Here? Or rather following the link of the article above and then in the chat box below the article? Seems to make more sense to me! 

I will be traveling, so I can't take a lead on this Sarah. And Peter, I think your suggestion of a date is terrific, but I'm not sure, however, everyone who expressed interest from the DGroups list has 'arrived' yet, so if you all finalize a start date, please post it to that list. This first time it make take a bit of support and encouragement for those not yet on Ning.

 For this round, I leave it to y'all! I'll be mostly offline through April 4 (and yes, this is my evil way to encourage other members to take up bits of leadership here and there and move outwards from core group dependence! :-)  )

I think a target date is good. It can mark the commencement of conversation regarding the journal article. Discussing the article within the indivdiual article entry would be convenient.

Like Regi, I agree that a date frame for comments is good - beginning and ending.  So, if there is a "window" for comments from the date of issue/posting until the next issue (or something like that), there is a sense of urgency for the discussion and keeps it from dragging. Not that someone could not comment or read the posts after the "closing" date; but the discussion could stay time-focused and more likely to elicit participation.

Dear Regi and Lawrence, so what would seem a reasonable conversation period after the have read date ?

One week? Two weeks?

I'd go for two weeks, but I'm flexible, Peter

I think two weeks is a good period of time.

Two weeks seems reasonable; urgent without being critical...

Ok, so 2 weeks from today is Wednesday, April 4.  Can we set that as our official conversation start date? I am just throwing this out there, as my initial attempt at volunteering to moderate this conversation. I could post an initial question or starter thought that day to get the conversation rolling.

Logistically, I noticed that when you click on the article title in the resources section (above) you are brought to a different page (where the article is posted) and a different space for a conversation thread. Where should we host this conversation--this page, or the comment wall where the article is posted?

I would suggest the threaded conversation take place as "close" to the virtual document as possible, whether that be through the tool there or a link to the document here.

Does this comment wall allow multiple threads, or will it all get jumbled together?  If the latter, then the conversation about the article might be better had on that page.

Great if you can moderate our talk, Melissa, many thanks. I would suggest that we start the discussion in a week (29/03) to give us (me!) a bit of time to read the article and then have a discussion until 12/04. If we start right now, some people might not be able to join. Looking forward to this!

April 4 sounds good. To Lawrence's earlier point a conversation in the location of the posted documented would be great. Perhaps an announcment here alerting members to  the ensuing conversation will be good. It will help make people aware and promote the dialogue.

Hi everyone, there is also a discussion on the page under resource itself but it's only 3 entries... 4 March as a start date - if I understand that rightly? - sounds great but I'd suggest that, if we want, we could each prepare feedback on our reaction to the article as a first thing to share, prior to the discussion. It would also be interesting, Melissa, if you'd tell why you chose that particular article.

Just a little technical note. I changed the settings on the NING site today so when people post here, the email alert contains the FULL TEXT of the message. I believe this will help the journal club discussion be easier to participate in. YAY!

Summarizing the threads below, here is how I understand how this first conversation will emerge:

1. As people read the article please feel free to post your initial reactions on the page where the article is posted (under the resources section above click the article title and post comments on that web page's comment wall). For example, I will post why I chose this article, as Sarah suggested.

2. Starting 4 April, I will synthesize people's initial reactions and pose a question that will start off our discussion.

3. How long should our conversation "officially" last? I suggest 2 weeks-1 month, in order to accommodate those who travel frequently who may be interested in participating.

Thanks Melissa for taking the facilitation lead here! I suggest that now it is time to move over to the article page.

We may have to use a calendar (as in event on this Ning?) to clearly indicate what we have decided in terms of:

1. start reading till reading deadline xyz

2. deadline xyz is start of discussion, though I'd say if people with to contribute earlier that is fine too

3. a pre-announced deadline for the end of the "official" conversation, though of course, noone can be stopped to keep contributing

4. if it makes sense: a pre-announced date on which a summary of the conversation will be posted: where? Here seems to make sense, or archived in a KM4Dev journal conversations repository on the KM4Dev wiki?

Joining the KM4Dev Journal article conversation?

Please join us here

hi...if someone come across an article on KM in Hospitals can you please post it asap

Sarah, maybe you should update the box containing the information about

"September 2010 issue of the KM4D Journal is currently free online " ?

This page says "also where we also have discussions of articles."

Suggestion: maybe we should make the discussions more prominent. Not sure how to do that. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Should we start a next article discussion once we made these discussions more prominent? Let us know here on the Comment Wall.

@Liah - if you still need articles on KM in hospitals, I suggest visiting APQC.org and requesting that info - Ron Webb has a goodly amount of free material in addition to their subscription-based information services.

Hiya -- I just got a request for an article from the Sept 2010 issue. I saw from above it was free, but upon checking, it is not free. Was that temporarily free? Thanks

N

Nancy, 

No, it should be free. All T&F copies become freely available after 3 years. I'll email you the articles from that issue if you want.

Sarah - could you check with T&F please - or highlight us on this case?

Cheers,

Ewen

Thanks, Ewen. The person inquiring wants copies of Part 1 and Part two of the communities and networks articles I did. And silly me, I never keep author copies ... nor even track what I write. This may be a lesson!!!

GENERAL UPDATE ABOUT THE JOURNAL: 

Hello all,

Special Latin American Edition of KM4Dev Journal is out!

PLEASE NOTE!!!

Authors of issue 11.1 on facilitation - that the notification about abstracts being approved or not is likely to be sent out on friday 19 september instead of monday 15 september.

Thank you for your understanding,

Best,

Ewen Le Borgne, on behalf of the guest editorial team

Thnx for the update Ewen

Hi everyone

Is there anyone who would be willing to peer review a paper for the journal on communities of practice? It would need to be done in the next two weeks.

Regards to all

Sarah

Sarah, if you send it today, I can do it.

Great, will do! Thank you!

Wondering how to get access to the Taylor & Francis issues/articles (2009-2012)?

Here's what's planned:

This is a very timely question! We currently have a student volunteer

from Macquarie University, Sydney, who is putting the 3 volumes
(2009-2012) online on the Open Journal System so they will be open
access like the rest of the journal. She has just started - this
weekend - and is working on Volume 5, issue 1. As she gets each issue
online, she will be informing everyone about this. It takes quite a
bit of time to do this - she has to create author accounts by proxy,
submit each individual paper as a proxy for the author, add all the
metadata in three languages, and then change roles to upload final
files and create the issue -  but while she is getting round to volume
6, Nancy, I will send you a PDF of your paper, both parts 1 and 2.

In the meantime, if any of you receive some strange, automatically
generated mails from me - in which you are thanked for submitting a
paper that was published some years ago - it will be part of this
process going on behind the scenes so there is no need to worry. As
author, you will also receive a mail when the issue is online.

Cheers!

The editorial team

That is great news. As I was looking back across older issues, I kept thinking -- THIS IS AN UNDERUSED RESOURCE!!! 

Do you know what kinds of page views you get per issue/article/overtime? 

Hi all,

Probably most of us havn't come here anymore since a long long time!

It would be good to keep this group updated, also because it is open to all registered to km4dev.org as far as I can see!

Do you need help?

Peter