Digital final reports available

We completed our project to digitize and make available via the web 425 of our pre-2003 final reports. This involved digitizing about 90,000 pages. These reports make up the majority of our knowledge base, now with a total of 581 reports available.

A major challenge in this project was copyright permissions for figures and tables in older reports. In the pre-internet days we had requested permission to use figures in tables in the report. However, we did not specifically request rights to use electronically. Taking the conservative approach we used a contractor to obtain digital permission from the original copyright holders.

Increasing communication

Time flies when you're having fun. I've been too busy to update my blog, so I will try to pick-up from today.

Had a meeting with our senior managers today as well as received a preview of our IT strategy. A common theme that I heard was that there is a need for more communication. We heavily used teams and meetings to launch a number of KM initiatives. However, after the strategies were developed and we got involved in the doing, we focused more on implementation teams rather than broader user teams. We've lost a lot of the momentum with the users and the original vision has become cloudy. In the next few weeks, there will be more effort in sharing information on our activities.