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A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE BELONGS TO ONE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY |
More About Us AOK will take you from the side street to the main street of the knowledge work movement. Even though people are the keys to the knowledge revolution, most have not been fully involved in the new strategy of knowledge work (KW) and knowledge management (KM). Current associations continue to be profession-focused. Independent workshops and seminars are expensive. And, Cyberinformation is scattered around the Internet floor, largely without connection or meaning to your line of work. Most of us stand beside the new knowledge highway looking for the on-ramp. AOK has constructed that ramp. |
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We began in January, 2000, with a pilot network for association executives interested in knowledge work (The Association Knowledge Management Network). With the founding of AOK, we expanded to embrace all knowledge workers and managers in every discipline and industry. As a member of AOK, you and your colleagues can take what you know and what you need to know to the AOK Community Network where collaborating minds exchange seemingly disparate but complementary knowledge and information to generate new and innovative ideas. Meanwhile, we have built other valuable resources and our acclaimed monthly STAR Series Dialogues attract the world's leading thought leaders for two-week email discussions with our members -- people like Fortune magazine's Tom Stewart, the World Bank's storytelling author Stephen Denning, KM pioneers like Sweden's Leif Edvinsson, Canada's Hubert Saint-Onge, Australia's Karl-Erik Sveiby . . . and you. All of this is aimed at building a knowledge-sharing environment that will make AOK more than an "association;" but, rather, the most essential 24/7/365 tool on the desktops of knowledge workers and managers. That brings me to my second reason for founding AOK. The desktop is where I think an association must be -- not in some box in some capital city somewhere or occasionally at a convention site. As an association management counselor, I have advised hundreds of senior executives that associations cannot survive on "business as usual" in the Knowledge Age. AOK's secondary goal is to be the association model of the future. Please take some time to browse through the pages of this website. You can read a lot or a little by using the underlined anchors at the top of each page. Thanks for your interest. In my opinion -- that makes you AOK. Jerry
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