YouTube for Knowledge Management?
The headline initially startled me too. YouTube for KM? - No way.
And I'm not seriously suggesting YouTube for KM....but...
Seth McGrath's ITWorld.com article, "Leveraging web technologies to capture and manage knowledge assets," is very insightful.
No, he does not actually suggest that you use YouTube for knowledge capture and distribution, but he does suggest using the technology (video) to capture knowledge dumps that can be prepared and stored for distribution. Face it, a video capture of someone's thoughts and actions delivered with their passion or emotion of the situation is far better (and a lot quicker) than trying to capture the same knowledge in writing.
More specifically, he had several great ideas (though the article is a great setup and delivery - much better than this footnote):
- Use video to capture knowledge and a YouTube-type repository for storage and distribution.
- Use Social Network applications on the local intranet.
- Use Blogs for day-to-day capture of activities and what is being worked on.
- Use a Wiki for collaborative projects.
- Use a del.icio.us-style tagging system for classification.
....and more.
McGrath's suggesting the utilization of today's most popular technologies for knowledge management purposes is strong and useful advice.
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