Web 2.0 pressures IT, shows benefits.
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Publication Title: KMWorld
Format: Online
Author: Smallwood, Robert F.

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Business today relies heavily on e-mail. Maybe too much so. Users make e-mail work for everything from a collaboration tool and knowledge repository to a filing cabinet. It has largely replaced the telephone and fax.

But new forms of communication also have emerged with Web 2.0 tools, like blogs, wikis, podcasts and RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Users are applying those technologies and seeing business benefits often without any formal guidelines or policies from IT.

With this deluge of information sources, there is rich content and corporate memory that, sliced in the right way, could benefit the organization significantly. So why haven't KM...



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