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Introducing Because You Need to Know and Pioneer Knowledge Services

The Because You Need to Know podcast was hosted and produced by Edwin K. Morris, President and Founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services

This article is part of the Because You Need to Know series.

Pioneer Knowledge Services ​​​was founded by Edwin K. Morris as a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation with a charitable knowledge management (KM) purpose. With knowledge being an organization’s most valuable asset, the goal of Pioneer Knowledge Services was to create cultures that support information development, knowledge transfer, knowledge handling, and, eventually, rapid access to knowledge to facilitate decision making.

From 2015 to 2025, when Pioneer Knowledge Services closed, knowledge communications leader Edwin K. Morris hosted and produced the Because You Need to Know podcast, featuring interesting interviews with non-profit leaders and knowledge management (KM) professionals.

RealKM Magazine helped to communicate the Because You Need to Know podcasts, and is now very honoured to be able to present the full Because You Need to Know podcast archive, including the KM Lobby Incredible Edition which also featured co-hosts Ginetta Gueli and Monica Danese-Perrin. RealKM Cooperative Limited currently holds the Because You Need to Know trademark.

Edwin K Morris
Edwin K. Morris, President and Founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services and host and producer of Because You Need to Know

Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is editor, lead writer, and a director of RealKM Magazine and winner of the international Knowledge Management Award 2025 (Individual Category). He is an experienced knowledge manager, environmental manager, project manager, communicator, and educator, and holds a Master of Environmental Management with Distinction and a Certificate of Technology (Electronics). His many career highlights include: establishing RealKM Magazine as an award-winning resource with more than 2,500 articles and 5 million reader views, leading the knowledge management (KM) community KM and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, using agile approaches to oversee the on time and under budget implementation of an award-winning $77.4 million recovery program for one of Australia's iconic river systems, leading a knowledge strategy process for Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) regional organisations, pioneering collaborative learning and governance approaches to empower communities to sustainably manage landscapes and catchments in the face of complexity, being one of the first to join a new landmark aviation complexity initiative, initiating and teaching two new knowledge management subjects at Shanxi University in China, and writing numerous notable environmental strategies, reports, and other works.

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