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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller Data is all in the universe, Information is just like a mine With knowledge and nowledge It's ore, and with tools, Know how doing makes all of it thine John Voorpostel What is Knowledge Management to us? Knowledge management is all about sharing and collaborating and learning and growing in an ongoing greater purpose, with a group of people who are continually engaged in discussions and making decisions, and engaging in activities that are part of a journey toward that greater purpose . This raison d'etre will generally define your need for knowledge management, and how you deploy the resources you use to solve it. As Peter Drucker said, you look like what you do. Sharing activities, know how and resources becomes about managing group strategies and decisions and the important memories of what you do and learn from. Its about people, discussions, decisions, activities and resources	useful overviews, on line magazines, journals and research, leading learning communities, and top rated software tools

	Knowledge Tools for Corporate Memory Builders				Top Rated Document Managers Open Doc Man OpenKM Logical Doc Epiware Magnolia Top Rated Groupware Simple Groupware Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EGroupware Top Rated Other Open Source Or Freeware Open Office Suite PrimoPDF Adobe Acrobat Reader Zip Genius Working example of a private secure Canadian tax knowledge community operated by Info L inc using Simple Machines. It is managed internally by 6 Canadian CA's and CGA's
	Commercial software	Further reading and learning and research		Open Source Software
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	For business owners and their teams For directors and their teams Great tools for Fortune500 but still Tabula Rasa out of the box Enterprise Content Management Open Text Sharepoint Actuate and BIRT Knowledge Tree Alfresco Cynapse It's more than numbers. It's about why and what and who and how and where and when, and it's about is? and if? and how could we?			Top Rated Forums Simple Machines phpBB Vanilla Phorum Yabb MyBB Top Rated CMS Joomla Drupal Wordpress Movable Type phpFusion Xoops Website Baker Contao Modx Knowledge and know how is shared via conversations and decisions and in the collaboration between people. Generally a combination of technologies and methods can be used to capture this. We love Simple Machines for building learning communities. Great for internal corporate private and secure discussions and decisions
		Quick readings University of Toronto faqs CIO Magazine KM synopsis Free Management Library Bain & Company Management Tools Knowledge Management Advantage Quick Videos Youtube knowledge management videos Google knowledge management videos Later reading Top Ten knowledge management books	Important on line magazines and journals KM World Electronic Journal of KM Journal Of KM Practice Leading learning communities Knowledgeboard Gurteen Knowledge Community Further KM research DMOZ knowledge management project
		Organize around what you do and need to know If it's true what Peter Drucker said that you look like what you do, then you will look like how you did and how you remembered it It's about how well you deploy your important entrepreneurial, proprietary, and operating resources. It's how you get there, what you do and need to do and learn how to do better
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