Comments on Weissman's World: An Insider's View of Compliance, Content & Information Management: So, THIS (SharePoint 2010) is what happened to kno...

Thank you, sadalit ... I will definitely check the...

2010-05-26T18:09:50.289-04:00

Thank you, sadalit ... I will definitely check these groups out. I appreciate the invite!

Steve - I agree and disagree. SharePoint, especia...

2010-05-16T14:42:40.182-04:00

Steve - I agree and disagree. SharePoint, especially its 2010 version, offers a lot of features that make it a good option for a KM platform. Your point about folks getting used to creating profiles in the web 2.0 space, therefore potentially being less resistant to creating one in SharePoint, is an excellent one. But to say that SP is what KM has become obscures the human struggles to manage knowledge (and not just information) that are common to every organization (at least all the ones with which I've worked) and also unique within every organization. Many of the discussions at meetings of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and the Boston chapter of SIKM involve this popular technology and all the questions it doesn't answer. I hope you'll consider joining one of the upcoming meetings of either of those groups - we'd love to have your voice in the discussion!

Nice post. To make SharePoint a KM system, it has...

2010-05-16T11:41:24.078-04:00

Nice post. To make SharePoint a KM system, it has to go beyond just a place for documents. The challenge today is that many people still communicate, discuss, make decisions via email (mainly due to the Blackberry which simply proliferates collaboration via email).

SharePoint needs to be used a social and collaborative application (and needs to be more mobile) and then and only then will we recognize it as a platform for knowledge.