Blogs and Knowledge Management, ACRL ITIG, 12/9/05
Blogs and Knowledge Management
Jessica Baumgart
ACRL ITIG
Friday, December 9, 2005
Raise your hand if you
[About twenty people were in the audience]
- Blog [about 7 hands]
- Manage knowledge [about 10 different hands]
- Use a blog or blogs to manage knowledge [about 2 different hands and one hand of a blogger]
- Use XML (RSS, Atom, podcasts, etc.) feeds [about 3 hands]
- Use feeds as a way to manage knowledge [no hands]
What is knowledge management?
Knowledge management is
- The storing and organizing of data so it is available for later use
- The sharing of information with others
- Managing knowledge in people