Boston conference June 2009

The Common Ground conference 'Knowledge, Management and Change in Organizations' at Northeastern University, Boston, in late June, was most interesting, and a great opportunity to meet up with knowledge professionals in North America. Also great staying in Boston, then having a short holiday in New York City - my partner's first visit to New York, and our first US trip post Obama - first since 2003, in fact.

I don't think I addressed the issue I wanted to, really, but subsequently I have concluded that knowledge brokering needs to develop as a subject with a specific curriculum for a professional qualification. That would make knowledge brokers to develop more systematically as professionals.

My next job - a mystery story

I'm looking for a new job as a knowledge broker, and see it as a mystery story - I don't know what my next job will be. That's the mystery, and it's an exciting time.

I would be prepared to work elsewhere than West Yorkshire in England, and seriously would consider work in New Zealand, where I grew up and revisit every couple of years.