Favorite Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. In November 2018, we added streaming transcriptions over HTTP/2 to Amazon Transcribe. This enabled users to pass a live audio stream to our service and, in return, receive
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 28, 2019
Favorite AWS offers a vast array of services that allow developers to build applications in the cloud. At the same time, Windows desktop applications can take advantage of these services as well. Today, we are releasing Amazon Polly for Windows, an open-source engine that allows users to take advantage of
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 27, 2019
Favorite Why is knowledge management not infinitely valuable? It’s because the value it delivers cannot exceed the “Cost of not-knowing” See text for explanation I was asked a question a few years back by someone challenging stories of KM value. “If Shell could deliver $200m per year through KM” he asked
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Shared by Nick Milton September 27, 2019
Favorite This is a reprise from the archives – a story of when KM was launched at British Petroleum through an early meeting of supporters and enthusiasts. It’s an extract from my book Performance Through Learning (available here), telling of a key moment in the history of the BP KM
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Shared by Nick Milton September 26, 2019
Favorite As part of our Global Knowledge Management Surveys in 2014 and 2017, we asked our respondents about the business imperatives which drove them to invest in Knowledge Management. This is what they answered. The survey asked about the importance of 7 main business drivers, and these are listed below,
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Shared by Nick Milton September 25, 2019
Favorite The heart of KM keeps knowledge flowing, and that heart has two chambers. Image from wikipedia You can think of the organisation as a body, and knowledge flowing round the organisation like blood flows round a body. But what is at the heart of KM? Is it knowledge sharing?
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Shared by Nick Milton September 24, 2019
Favorite Implementing Knowledge Management is a change process, and change involves communication. Interpersonal communication, by Bovee and Thill, on FlickrUnder CC license Last week we discussed 5 tools to change hearts and minds while introducing Knowledge Management behaviours and culture. One of these tools was Communication, so here are more
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Shared by Nick Milton September 23, 2019
Favorite It’s an old saying; How do you change hearts and minds? One at a time! This updated reprise from the archives explains how this works for Knowledge Management. The road of life twists and turns by AndYaDontStop on Flickr Implementing Knowledge Management is a change process – we all
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Shared by Nick Milton September 20, 2019
Favorite Machine learning (ML) is one of the fastest growing areas in technology and a highly sought after skillset in today’s job market. Today, I am excited to announce a new education course, built in collaboration with Coursera, to help you build your ML skills: Getting started with AWS Machine
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 19, 2019
Favorite What is the purpose of KM? Why do we do it? What is it’s core objective? This is a subject worth exploring. If we are 100% sure about why we need, or why we do, KM, then we can be clearer about what sort of KM we need, and
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Shared by Nick Milton September 19, 2019