Who's+who

Are you a member of our KIDMM wiki community? You are invited to say a few words about yourself and what interests you about wikis, social software and knowledge & information management. Note that these pages are visible to anyone in the world, because this wiki lives on a free-of-charge facility belonging to Wikispaces. Please keep the entries alphabetical by surname!

Cornelia Boldyreff
I usually think of myself as more on the technical side of CSCW/KM. I've had an interest in this area for a number of years with my research on CSCW especially applied to distributed software engineering and collaborative learning. I taught a module on CSCW applied to Software Engineering for a few years; and recently have been working on the OU's M891 //Collaboration in virtual project teams// MSc course. ¶ My CODEX projects have been exploring collaborative development and learning in the context of the OLPC project; see our project wiki at [] with links to the student researchers' blogs for the latest developments.

Stephen (Steve) Dale
My background is in information management, both the technology (EDRMs, ECMs CMs) and the disciplines of standards and protocols. I spent 17 years at Reuters where I was responsible for the quality and integrity of their global equities and fixed income data feeds and databases. I’ve since (from about 2002) moved more towards the ‘dark side’ of ‘Knowledge Management’, a much over-hyped term, which to me means knowing more about people and how they work. The blend of IM and KM has enabled me to recognise and encourage the behavioural characteristics that enable people to self-organize, collaborate and co-create. I’m particularly interested in the development and nurturing of communities of practice for knowledge sharing. ¶ Perhaps my greatest claim to fame is as the business lead and information architect for the [|community of practice platform] currently deployed across the UK local government sector, the largest network of its type, and I continue to play a supporting role in the development of this platform.
 * ¶ ** I am also an evangelist and practitioner in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Media applications to support personal learning and knowledge sharing, and great believer in the tenet that you do not know the value of knowledge until it has been shared!
 * ¶ ** I occasionally blog as [|Communities & Collaboration], and use [|Twitter] more than I should. I am one of the admins for this wiki.

John Lindsay
Information systems design was what I called the political process of engaging in social change in the 1970s, when I noticed the significance of databases and networks for development. This led to a UNESCO report in 1985, then a British Library one in 1987. By which time I had been asked to join the BCS, and got into the Information Retrieval Specialist Group, which seemed the one most connected to the sort of thing I was interested in, the political economy of what was called

.. been distracted, will have to return, that is the problem with day jobs..

Conrad Taylor
My background is in writing, graphic design and media production, and I fell in with computers in the mid-1980s in search of a better pencil. I am fascinated by the relationship between people and tools, and in particular by the use of computer systems in collecting, sorting, organising, authoring, designing and publishing/sharing information — especially when it is in support of lifelong learning and solving social and environmental problems. I am also very interested in the usability of systems, and problems of design in general.
 * ¶ ** I am a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), the UK chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO-UK) and the Information Design Association. Some years back, I led the charge to form the KIDMM discussion community within the BCS, to facilitate it, and to ensure that it has a vital and independent existence through IT infrastructure and face-to-face meetings. In the context of this wiki, I am one of the three administrators, with a kind of editorial function.
 * ¶ ** I blog sporadically as [|The Conradiator].