Next week I start the Information and Knowledge Strategy masters program at Columbia University, and I'm excited to meet and work with some heavy-hitters in the KM field. It's been a whirlwind year - at the beginning of 2011, I'd never even heard of Knowledge Management, and now I'm going to get a masters degree in it!
Considering that I came to New York in 1998 to study and pursue acting, one could legitimately wonder how I got from there to here. I’ll skip the long story for now (maybe I’ll revisit in a future post), but in February I visited a good friend in California, who works at an AmLaw 100 firm. The conversation turned to intranets, and she told me a bit about their knowledge management director, then said, "hey, you'd be great at that!"
And with the seed thus planted, I started researching and reading everything I could find about knowledge management, clicking from articles to blogs to books to footnotes back to websites and articles, discovering a vast community of resources. I’m still uncovering new gems, even after months of reading and downloading and connecting. I had thought I was more passionate about performing than anything else, but once I discovered KM, I realized I hadn’t had a clue what it felt like to be truly compelled and impelled by an interest in something.
Somewhere in the midst of all my researching, I stumbled across an ad on LinkedIn for Columbia’s brand-new masters program. I applied, interviewed, and got in, and the journey begins next Wednesday. :)
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