Good News in the Knowledge Economy

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I have come across a few items of good news to share recently. All three below relate to obtaining useful information and putting it to work in our knowledge based economy.

Keeping up to date in the knowledge economy is my number one issue. You may think you know the answer, but then the question changes!.

How to keep my own skills & those of my business at the cutting edge without losing customer contact time or core working time?. For me this particularly applies to areas such as:
Oracle E-Business Suite
Microsoft Windows
PRINCE2 Project Management
Internet Marketing
ERP systems generally

This is a common problem and an ongoing issue for many small business I think.

So, I was delighted to come across the modestly named ACM – the Association for Computing Machinery – with a brilliant range of on line courses and other resources “that advance computing as a science and a profession”. I promptly took out a subscription! A reasonable annual fee gives access to a great range of leading-edge publications, conferences, and business /career resources across the computing range. You can find it at http://www.acm.org/ and look up their courses at http://pd.acm.org/netg_listing.cfm.
So now I am working my way through various of the Oracle update courses in those midnight hours.

Secondly I have subscribed via feedblitz – this time at no cost - to “hallam” a great site to keep me up to date with Internet marketing http://www.shcl.co.uk/. I attended a great seminar led by Susan Hallam and am now a regular website visitor. Do you know about latest legal obligations on information to be shown on your company website?. Have a look at their blog-post “Company website statutory requirements”.

Finally, there is some great PRINCE2 information I would like to recommend. PRINCE2 is the UK de-facto standard in project management methodology. For the Practitioner there is great material to be found at the ILX Group site http://www.prince2.com/downloads.html
Also look at Project Smart http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/index.html. which is the internet based project management resource that helps managers at all levels to improve their performance.

Good news or what ?.