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

Comments

[Frank]

Share Knowledge as well as content! For categorizing any SharePoint items or documents cross-site based on centrally managed taxonomies and browse it by default navigation, category tree or A-Z directory you can use the Taxonomy Extension found at:

http://www.sharepartxxl.com/products/taxonomy/default.aspx

Related items can be shown in the item's detail view, cross-site category-based meta-data lists from different source lists and types can be subscribed by RSS or email. With that extension the SharePoint portal really can become a place to share knowledge as well as content.

Just check it out. / Frank

[bill Ives]

Frank = Thanks for this update. I am sure that sharepoint has come a long way since i wrote this piece. I am going to two sessions on it this month and will be writing about them. Bill

[records management]

Thanks a lot for this one... I've been searching for different knowledge management possibilities - and your post was truly helpful. I hope that your recommendations will assist me... thanks:)