Web 2.0 - Knowledge Building

In the case of the Web 2.0 Watermill, there are primarily four areas where technology is beginning to facilitate a vastly improved Internet: knowledge collection, knowledge discovery, knowledge building, and knowledge sharing.                                  - Ken Yarmosh, Why Web 2.0 Matters to your Business In today's job market, employees come and ago. But hopefully all of the knowledge they possess doesn't. If you are smart, then your business probably has some overlap between the various positions and roles that each team member fills. Having some sort of back-up is particularly important for a small business or a team based larger organization. Subject matter experts while crucial to the success of a project can be equally detrimental if they leave and no one else knows what they knew. Knowledge building is a step beyond this potential problem. It assumes that the good practice of craigslist and social bookmarking tool I referred to in earlier post could be synthesized and then put on the intranet portal homepage. There are many implementations of this idea that could become the business manager's "dashboard" of the future. Using another approach, knowledge building would not have to be that technically advanced. It could be as simple as ensuring that your employees were regularly contributing to their part of a Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: TECHNOSIGHT blog.