Knowledge Management 2.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Mauro Cardarelli provides a useful summary of the capabilities of Sharepoint and knowledge management. He covers knowledge management from a web 2.0 perspective and looks at blogs, wikis, RSS, search, and social networking. A number of people (e.g., Khaitan, Boothby, McAfee) have written recently about how web 2.0 can fulfill the promise of knowledge management. Here is what Microsoft can bring to this table through Sharepoint.

Sharepoint now has templates for blogs and wikis. It allows its content to be RSS enabled. The enterprise search engine is much improved. Sharepoint has also incorporated social networking through its Knowledge Network. Employees can build profiles, MySite, so others can find them. See the Knowledge Network blog for how it integrates with Sharepoint. It includes a people search component as well as the My Site feature (an enterprise facebook). enterprise 2.0