Good “out loud” thinking. We seem to be on the same wavelength. I’m working on some stories about professional associations that are educating their membership on knowledge work.

Out of curiosity I attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) because they had lots of KM and KM-like topics on their agenda. Just wanted to see if they knew what they were talking about. They did!

Truth is, KM is migrating from the core group — KM wonks and celebrated practitioners — to the workface. It’s causing the folks in the core group to proclaim KM is dead, but they haven’t figured out it isn’t dead, it just left.

That’s a good thing. We all knew that KM would not fulfill its promise until it became embedded in the organization. That’s what’s happening.

Currently I am creating an architecture for people on the front lines of KM and I’ve started on Facebook. You, of course, are connected, and now I’m connected to your Blog.

What fun!

Jerry Ash
Managing editor
Inside Knowledge magazine