Podcasts are recorded broadcasts that can be listened to online, or downloaded manually or automatically through syndication and then listened to on mobile devices at the listener’s convenience. They can be used to great advantage in a knowledge management program.
Podcasts are available on demand or by subscription. Use podcasts…
This is the 76th article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. Eric Tsui lives in Sydney, Australia and is a professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Vice President of the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society (HKKMS). He is an educator, consultant…
Wikis are sites that allow users to easily add, remove, edit, and change most available content. Wikis are effective for collaborative writing, self-service web page creation, and shared maintenance of information.
A wiki is a web page that can be edited by anyone, thus making it easy to collaborate on…
Blogs are websites where posts are created (such as entries in a journal or diary), and displayed in a reverse chronological order; they often provide commentary or news on a particular subject.
Some function as personal online diaries or logbooks. Blogs combine text, images, and links to other blogs and…
Archiving in a knowledge management context is the process for creating offline file storage for legal, audit, or historical purposes, using tapes, CDs, or other long-term media. Archiving is the process of moving files that are no longer actively used to a separate storage device for long-term retention.
Archived files…
Originally posted 16-Dec-21
Search engines are tools that allow searching for sites, documents, files, list items, content, answers to questions and other digital information.
They allow specifying the scope or domain of the search, whether to search on text or metadata, and how results should be presented.
Enterprise search is…
This is the 75th article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. Heidi Gardner is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and Program Chair of the Sector Leadership Master Class and Smarter Collaboration Master Class. Previously she was a…
Metadata and tags are information about information — data fields added to documents, web sites, files, or lists that allow related items to be listed, searched for, navigated to, syndicated, and collected.
Metadata allows information to be found through browsing, searching, and other means. It defines the context of the…
Expertise locators are systems for finding experts on particular subjects, allowing individuals to enter details about what they know and can do, and allowing others to search for all people having desired skills, experience, or knowledge.
Expertise locators are also referred to as:
Threaded discussions are tools for carrying on discussions among subscribers on a specific subject, including online and email posts and replies, searchable archives, and discussions grouped by threads to show the complete history of each topic.
Threaded discussions (also known as bulletin boards, listservs, newsgroups, message boards, discussion boards, online…
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