- Instructor: Ramon Barquin, Barquin International
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Location: American Institute of Architects (AIA)
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Time: 8:00am- 12:00pm
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Registration Fees:
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Government: $195
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IAC Member: $295
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Non Member: $395
Registration: Click here to register
Course Description:
Social media tools arise from the imperative of virtual communities to interact. They are supportive technologies for that process. Knowledge sharing in virtual communities is the principal purpose of social media, but it takes many different forms and has many impacts and second order consequences. This course introduces these concepts and provides awareness and insights into these phenomena.
What You Will Learn:
You will obtain a solid understanding of social media and social networks, their political, economic, social and cultural importance and how they relate to the knowledge management discipline. These concepts are important because collaboration and the extraction of knowledge from social media and networks is an essential activity of modern organizations. The course reviews key concepts and technologies (e.g., social network analysis, text analytics, sentiment analysis), principal players and stakeholders, with ample discussion of examples, case studies and future directions. It will also facilitate a discussion of federal policies and best practices for managing social media.
Why You Should Attend:
Social media have exploded onto the scene in the last decade and the trend shows no sign of abating. They have also penetrated the federal space in a very significant way and both managers and agencies are attempting to leverage the positive aspects of social media while minimizing the negative. This will be a key topic for public sector executives for years to come.
Format:
Half-day; highly interactive; many examples and demos
Agenda:
1. Introductions and course overview
2. What is Social Media?
3. The Importance of Social Media
4. What is the Relationship between Social Media and Knowledge Management
5. A Quick Overview of the Principal Social Media
a. Wikis and the Wikipedia
b. Blogosphere
c. YouTube
d. The Twitterverse
6. Extracting Knowledge and Sentiments from Social Media and Networks
7. Culture and Social Media
8. Societal Issues and Concerns
9. Conclusion
Instructor:
Dr. Barquin is the president of Barquin International, a Washington, DC based consulting group. He was also the co-founder and first president of The Data Warehousing Institute. He is recognized as a world-class specialist in developing information systems strategies and architectures, particularly data warehousing, knowledge management and business intelligence for public and private sector enterprises.
His presence in the information technology industry has spanned five decades over five continents. He had a long career with IBM covering both technical assignments and corporate management, including overseas postings and responsibilities in Asia and Latin America. Afterwards he served as president of the Washington Consulting Group, where he had direct oversight for the performance of major consulting contracts for the U.S. Federal Government.
An electrical engineer and mathematician by training, he holds a PhD degree from MIT. The author/editor of 6 books and over 200 technical and management publications, he has held faculty appointments at MIT, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Maryland. As founder and president of the Computer Ethics Institute, he authored the “Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics,” one of the most used and publicized canons of cyberethics. An acknowledged expert in the fields of data warehousing, business intelligence and knowledge management, he has assisted a number of corporate entities and government agencies looking for guidance in these endeavors. Some of his clients include: AARP, CIGNA, Deloitte Consulting, EMC, ESRI, Freddie Mac, IBM, Informatica, ITT Hartford, KPMG, HarteHanks, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MITRE, the NASDAQ and Sirius Satellite Radio. Public sector clients encompass the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Services Administration, including a number of federal bureaus such as: the US Army, Navy, Air Force, FAA, the Bureau of the Census, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Export-Import Bank, the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Patent and Trademark Office. International clients include several foreign governments and corporations as well as the World Bank, the United Nations and the InterAmerican Development Bank.
Dr. Barquin is Chairman of the Board of Atlantic University College, a Director of the Center for Internet Security and from 2000 to 2008 served as a Director of the Washington Hospital Center. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. He also chairs the E-Gov Knowledge Management Conference series; serves as Government Channel domain expert for the Business Intelligence Network (www.b-eye-network.com); and has chaired E-Government and Knowledge Management programs at the Brookings Institution. He was the founding editor for the Prentice-Hall book series on data warehousing, where he co-edited its two first volumes, Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse and Building Managing and Using the Data Warehouse. He is also the co-editor of Knowledge Management: The Catalyst for E-Government and Building Knowledge Management Environments for Electronic Government.