Knowledge Management (KM) and Social Computing: Are they the same?

“Knowledge Management” (KM) is a term that’ s been bandied around since the mid 1990’s, with much debate as to what it actually means. The wikipedia definition is a reasonable starting point, but you still get the vociferous few who will take the literal meaning and argue that you can’t manage (tacit) knowledge, plus a confetti (I quite like that description) of academic papers that provide a forensic analysis of the “KM” term. Fortunately, there are always two sides to … Continue reading Knowledge Management (KM) and Social Computing: Are they the same?