KM4Dev newsletter

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Original Message

From: Julian Goh, posted on 2013/09/18

a New Member.

I am an enthusiastic researcher in KM IC topics. May I know if we have a monthly or quarterly newsletter published by KM4DEV?

JULIAN (MABP, MBA) Managing Partner GOH BUSINESS PRACTITIONERS

Contributors

All replies in full are available in the discussion page. Contributions received with thanks from:

Nancy White
Simone Staiger-Rivas
Okey Nwoke
John David Smith
John Emeka Akude

Related Discussions

Summary

Discussing the value, contents, and production quandaries of organizing periodic newsletter for the KM4Dev community.

Suggested Newsletter Topics

  • Summaries of key threads (done by those who raised the threads)
  • Space for stories, profiles (would need to be generated)
  • Ks toolkit corner, highlighting one tool
  • Abstract of a recent km4dev journal article (chosen from journal)
  • Announcements (taken from those shared on list and Ning)
  • Links (taken from those shared on list and Ning)
  • Reviving “old” topics already in Discussions

Newsletter Suggestions in the L&M 2013 report

(Culled by John Smith, 26 September 2013. See full report HERE)

  1. p4.: The core team and community should try to share conversations and increase its transparency even more, perhaps by means of a monthly update of the community conversations (inside the core and outside) in a very simple format.
  2. p5.: The principles, vision and values of the community should be made available on the wiki and on the Ning group – and reminded to all members (on the mailing list and on the Ning site) about these.
  3. p6.: Every selection process of the core group members should be shared transparently. Core group activities could be reported about in the monthly update about the community perhaps…
  4. p10.: And pulling information from conversations going on those platforms into the monthly mail-ing would be a very beneficial activity for the whole community to connect dots between the community technological platforms and assets.
  5. p22.: Overall recommendations (from respondents): Develop a simple monthly update on what is going on in the community.

Roles - "a team of 3-6 people would be ideal"

  1. editor
  2. chief editor who finalise the content what to publish
  3. assistant editor
  4. members / authors

Newsletter Sections

  1. KM4Dev Recap or KM4Dev Review - this is where a summary of discussions will be made.
  2. KM Member of the Month - In this section we will highlight a member of the community
  3. Resource Section - Of course we would have a better name but here we can discuss KM tools and resources being uses, have links to blogs, etc.
  4. Announcements

Production Issues

  • happy to lead a section if others want to try it out…
  • Should be quarterly because of the effort involved