The Ferryman

Dear Michael, Thanks, Respects and Inspiration to you (Michael Jackson)

Thanks Michael for all those great music videos in the 80's.  You were a leader, an innovator, doing completely new and great things back then.  You entertained us when we took a break from our studies in college in the early 80s, and tried out this new MTV experience at the time.  (It was much more interesting back then!)  You were a Thriller!

Respects to you Michael, we played and danced to your songs last night, and were not alone.

Inspiration Michael, if we can take inspiration from your tragedy and Childhood legacy you could not shake off, it is that we should take some more time to reach out to our family, friends and contacts.  Even if it is that business partner, don't just always email them, get on the Skype with them, talk and get some understanding, build some shared meaning, reach out and support. As you said:

You are not alone, I am here with you
Though you're far away, I am here to stay
You are not alone, I am here with you
Though we're far apart, You're always in my heart

And if you want to collaborate folks in this flatter world don't be alone and far away. Reach out!

The Ferryman

Program for InnovationWell & eCheminfo InterAction Meetings

I summarise below the list of sessions with over 100 top speakers and discussion leaders for the program listing for the upcoming Autumn InterAction Meetings taking place in Philadelphia and Basel. Please add a traceback or link for other like-minded folk to find!

I also provide an electronic brochure for download here for the InnovationWell Autumn Program on Knowledge-based Innovation in Life Science Product Development:

Download InnovationWell-ProgramAutumn05.PDF

And the equivalent eCheminfo brochure on Drug Discovery:

Download eCheminfo-ProgramAutumn05.pdf

Note: The poster sessions will be run as electronic poster sessions using tabletop spaces, a wireless network and Internet facilities at the meetings, in addition to virtual access through the website, i.e., the posters will be electronic but the access can be face-to-face or virtual. You can participate in person and virtually in the poster sessions.  We can supply nourishment and refreshments locally; remote participants may have to order out! [We also expect, subject to on-site testing, to have live conference call capabilities for remote participating members to join local discussions.]  Anyone interested in presenting such an "electronic poster" should directly contact us via email at innovationwell at douglasconnect.com

Look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia or Basel!

Barry Hardy
Community of Practice Manager
Douglas Connect
http://douglasconnect.com/
+41 61 851 0170 (office)

InnovationWell & eCheminfo InterAction Meetings
Philadelphia, US, 11-12 October 2005 and Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 November
List of Sessions with Speakers & Schedule (InterAction Autumn Meetings)
http://innovationwell.net/ and http://echeminfo.com/

Registration to attend the meetings or to access virtually is available through the websites or through contacting Nicki Douglas [nicki.douglas at douglasconnect.com]

InnovationWell eCheminfo meeting workshop conference management executive drug safety KM Life Sciences Pharma Drug Discovery Drug Development Healthcare Innovation Informatics Knowledge Management events

…PROGRAM LISTING CONTINUING IN FULL POSTING…..

Blogging, wikis, jazz communities and Industry too

Yesterday, Stuart Henshall presented a Virtual Talk "From Blogs to Augmented Social Networks" to us and pursued the theme that community development of blogging could follow the theme of "Jazz in the Blogosphere".

Stuart on the concept:

Blogs to augmented social software is best thought about by combining two metaphors. Jazz and the jukebox....combine a weblog and RSS feeds and you get more than just the capability to publish frequent updates to a website and similarly aggregate information from other sites. While building context over time you instantly become part of a web of data exchange, one connecting many people who are cross-linking and sharing information. ...It’s also important to recognize that a good jazz community isn’t only comprised of musicians.

According to Stuart, companies embracing and adapting blogging and wiki tools will enable the conversation on the fringes that will enhance and power greater innovation and productivity. All members of this Jazz band must be allowed to both play together and have their own "instrument" or voice heard.

Welcome and Introduction to the Knowledge Management in Pharma & Life Science Community

I would like to welcome you to the Knowledge Management in Pharma & Life Science Community and its launch KM in Pharma R&D virtual conference running from 1-5 December 2003 and provide a brief overview here. This week we are concentrating on knowledge management approaches of relevance to research and development in the pharmaceutical industry, but also, many of the topics we are covering are of more general interest.

What is this Knowledge Management Community going to be all about? This will not just be determined by myself; rather all members will have an opportunity in contributing and receiving information, contacts, learning, news and leading expertise. This is your community and your conference and I hope you find it both enjoyable and useful in your work.

Blogging, Stuart Henshall

This Blog is my first experience actually setting up and using a Blog. It was invaluable having the help and advice of an active Blogger, Stuart Henshall who provided valuable assistence and tips to me on how to get started. With such help, I was able to be off and running in a few hours, which I thought was pretty good compared to the time it often takes to start such an endeavour. Stuart runs the Unbound Spiral Blog.

We will be meeting with Stuart online this week to hear further from him on Blogging and to discuss directions it is leading to in the business world.

From Blogs to Augmented Social Networks: Applications enabling enhanced communication and collective intelligence

Stuart Henshall

innovationwell.net <--- Please register on conference site to be able to attend and participate.

Knowledge Management Conference Program

Throughout this coming week starting December 1, we will be discussing issues of Knowledge Management at a virtual conference site . I will be providing news from the discussions and presentations at the conference here in this Blog. Comments are welcome.

About Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical Research & Development Conference

http://innovationwell.net/

Starting 1st December 2003
Knowledge Management (KM) in Pharma R&D is an international conference to be held on the Internet which brings together researchers to discuss the applications of Knowledge Management methods to Pharma R&D. The program covers:

* analysing investment issues in KM projects in the pharmaceutical industry, new ROI measures analysed including EVA,
* remote team management and co-ordination
* social sciences: how do you understand how people behave? How do you change or react most effectively to that behaviour?
* understanding management and how implementation of KM can practically enhance productivity
* community management and monitoring
* intelligent search agents and expertise location
* establishing and supporting networks of scientists
* enabling effective clinical feedback to early-stage R&D teams
* intellectual capital approaches and business agility
* use of electronic notebooks and management of R&D data
* enhancing communication via blogging and augmented social networks

In addition to talks from BMS, Pfizer, Aventis, UNIC, 3rd Millennium, Rescentris, CambridgeSoft, Partners HealthCare and Leif Edvinsson, we will be interactively exploring blogging and wikis with Stuart Henshall, conducting a workshop on investment analysis with Kevin Cookman and trying out new social software including metalayer's collaboration tools. Further information on the program including abstracts is located at:

http://innovationwell.net/html/speakerinformation2003.htm

You can listen to the talks live during the launch week (Dec 1-5) or return to the recorded talks at any time in December (when work quietens down) or in the New Year.

Launching this Blog

Why the Ferryman name?

If you have ever been to Basel in Switzerland you may have taken a ferry across the Rhine between the main city and “Klein Basel” (Little Basel). This ferry is tethered to a cable line stretching across the river and uses only the river’s current to be pushed quietly from one side to the other. Here I imagine sitting with the river’s flow of information swirling past, reflecting on the voices that have spoken to me that day. Here we can also sit together and share a conversation as we observe the constant and changing flow around us.

And so this Blog has been taken to the river.

“You will learn it,” said the Ferryman Vasudeva, “but not from me. The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it too…And it sometimes happened that while listening to the river, they both thought the same thoughts, perhaps of a conversation of the previous day, or about one of the travellers whose fate and circumstances occupied their minds, or death, or their childhood; and when the river told them something good at the same moment, they looked at each other, both thinking the same thought, both happy at the same answer to the same question.”

Herman Hesse