I did a bit of digging into Knowledge Management professional associations and certification so that I could determine whether being "certified" might be a good thing to do in terms of lending credibility to my employer's KM practice. My findings are as follows.
Certification organizations:
Knowledge Management Consortium International: KMCI
Knowledge Management Certification Board: KMCB
They compete. KMCB came after KMCI. There's a story about this included in the details below.
KMCI offers:
CKIM (Certified Knowledge and Innovation Manager)
Overview
Details
The associated professional society is KMPro
KMCB offers:
CKM (Certified Knowledge Manager), levels 1, 2 and 3 with concentrations in Knowledge Mangement and Knowledge Systems Engineering (CKM and CKSE)
Overview
Details
The associated professional society is CKIMPS
A listing of Knowledge Mangement Organizations can be found at DMOZ.org or Google's directory (Google piggybacks on DMOZ but ranks the links by relevance rather than alphabetically as DMOZ does) as:
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Organizations/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Organizations/
Details:
KMCB is lobbying ANSI and ISO to set standards. KMCI feels that's the wrong approach. Dunno who's going to win. David Skyrme writes about whether "standards" are really needed here.
CognaTek and KMPro support KMCB. Ed Swanstrom of Cognatek is listed as a board member of KMCB. A narrative of Ed Swanstrom's hand in the origination of the split between KMCI and KMCB is described in XML Topics Maps (XTM) discussion group [XTM is an emerging standard for ascribing semantic meaning to information in XML form; an area of natural interest to KM practitioners] in a response by Andrius Kulikauskas to a post by Ed Swanstrom solicitng XTM's participation in the ISO Technial Advisory Group (TAG) formulating standards related to knowledge management and knowledge economics.
Swanstrom's original post is here.
Note that GKEC.org, KMCB (kmcertification.org), cognatek.com, eknowledgecenter.com and ckimps.org all appear to resolve to the same website (or related websites). The choice of the domain name for the professional society, CKIMPS.org, is similar to the certification acronym (CKIM) used by the rival organization, KMCI)