Social Technologies

As this blog is about knowledge management and to share knowledge there are some technical facilities out in the market which is reach able to every one some of them are free to register and for some of them one have to pay to subscribed .

As I am a student having a knowledge management course in this module according to my understanding sharing of knowledge is not entirely depends on these social technologies (in some cases) there are some small organisations might not need this kind of technology but still if there employees need to use these social technologies to share the knowledge within the organisation and outside the organisation they are free to do that. Here let me give you example of my organisation my class room , my teacher of this module called our class an organisation we are in total about 24 students in the class all the students divided into 4 groups what we do normally is prepare a topic before we go to lecture discuss that topic within the group comes up with our own ideas and then after that argue with each other within the group and come to the point where we all of us agree on that point then in the lecture we present our ideas to other groups after finishing the presentation we take questions from the other groups and as well from the teacher and justify our view point with the examples that’s how we share our knowledge first within the group and after with whole class . As I mentioned that the number of students are approximately 24 so we can share our knowledge face to face or by giving presentation to whole class but even we can share our knowledge by presentation our teacher gave another idea to share the knowledge by making blog and invite others to read these blog and give there comments .So what I am trying to say every organisation have different situation or different plat forms or social technologies where employees can share there knowledge.

Whereas in some big organisations management need to or have to use these social technologies to share knowledge by creating blogs , web forums , and other social technologies such as wikki. because of the large number of employees its not possible to go to each and every employee of the organisation to address the issues or share with them new knowledge.

What is blog
Blog is one of the form of social technologies which is created by the individuals and tends to focus on the current topic individuals can receive comments on there blogs from other individuals and able to answer that comments. Some of the blog provider charge to access the material but some give this facilities free and also writer of the blog can edit his own blog any time or add anything which is related to that topic.[Semple 2006]

What is wikki

Wikii is an web based application where participants allow to write collaboratively which can further be edit the content of documents these documents can be any thing supported by web, with hyperlinks to any where on the world wide web this can be in any shape images, videos and document. The meaning of wikki is quick , fast and this application named after the Hawaiin [Leuf and Cunningham, 2005]


Reference






Assessed 6 march 2008 “ The case of the corporate Wikki”

http://epress.anu.edu.au/info_systems02/mobile_devices/ch10s02.html