While in London last week, I had the pleasure of meeting David Gurteen f2f. I have pounced on his monthly newsletters for some time as they are always full of good insights, information, and connectivity. We had a delightful breakfast, hosted by Martyn Laycock, prior to the London Innovation conference. Martyn had a booth promoting the London Knowledge Network. We poked around the booths a bit and found that there are a lot of people in London focused on different aspects of “KM” — best practices, emergent learning networks, and the like.

In talking with David, I discovered that his rich web site is really a Lotus Notes database, which makes sense after we talked about his tenure at Lotus. It’s interesting how once we get wired to use a tool set, we adapt it to new purposes. (Of course, it has to be a sufficiently rich and flexible tool set to begin with!) He also puts together some stunning events and knowledge cafes. I’m really motivated to find more excuses to go to London (if the value of the dollar weren’t so abysmal).