Reporting out from the KM Impact Challenge unConference: discussions, learning and a look towards the future

Abstract

This report summarizes the major outputs of the KMIC UnConference which took place over two days in Washington, DC. The report highlights the use of social media and online participation for interested parties who could not attend in person, enabling them to interact with the unConference by watching keynote presentations and presentations of the top case stories online and sending comments and questions via webinar technology. The in-person attendees participated in discussion groups where various monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and knowledge management (KM) topics were addressed and discussion syntheses were shared in plenary and online via our blog, wiki and twitter feed. Finally unConference participants suggested follow-on activities designed to capitalize on the interest generated by the KMIC initiative.

Notes

1. To read all 47 case stories visit: http://kdid.org/kmic/entries

2. KM Impact Challenge wiki: http://kmimpactchallenge.wikispaces.com

3. Webinars on KMIC site: http://kdid.org/kmic/unconference

4. For example: ‘Hi, I'm Kim from the KM team within Oxfam America in Boston. Sorry I couldn't make it down to DC. I saw the presentations yesterday … they were really great. From the video, it sounds like there were many rich discussions the second half of the day. Thanks for putting this conference on and making it accessible virtually! It's exciting to be connected to such a diversity of KM professionals!’ (Kim Miller, Oxfam America, via webinar).

5. Twitter analysis: http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk/?hashtag=kmimpact; Twitter posts: http://tinyurl.com/kmimpact

6. KMIC presentations on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/kmimpactchallenge

7. Sophie Alvarez, ‘Transparency and use of M&E data’ discussion group.