A Taxonomy for Knowledge Management Tools

Posted by john oconnor
Oct 19, 2007 at 11:03 PM

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-10-16 14:20:49

“I think knowledge management tools are best categorized on a continuum, the salient points on which and representative programs being:

1.Recording essential decisions about a writing or product , organizing, and building on them, in other words, brainstorming and analysis. BrainStorm (http://www.brainstormsw.com), NoteMap (http://www.casesoft.com)
2.Organizing the parts of a complete writing. Lonely Notes, Writers Blocks, outline view in Microsoft Word.
3.Recording and organizing background material along with the material to be included in writing or directly relevant to a project. Miss Lonely Notes (http://www.mindola.com), Writers Blocks.
4.Creating a large and ever-expanding knowledge base, e.g. for all of oneís professional activities. Idea! Professional Edition, Personal KnowBase, generic database trees such as HyperClip.
5.Creating a knowledge base for a group or just a still larger knowledge base. Idea! Enterprise Edition, MDE InfoHandler , Zoot!”

I think it is time to update this most helpful guide.

In deciding whether some software will help me I like to visualize how the software works with the limitations and strengths of the human brain. Foe example: the brain is not good at long term storage of information. Solution a program like NDXcards. Another example: the brain is very good at seeing connections and patterns between objects. Solution a program like Connectexedtext.

Your comments.

John O’Connor