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Weekly News Digest
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February 17, 2009 — In addition to this week's NewsBreak(s), the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Inmagic Series on Building a Business Case for Social Knowledge Networks
The Inmagic blog (http://inmagicinc.blogspot.com) has begun to post a nine-part series of articles that will highlight how the unique implementation of social technologies with a knowledge management solution can result in measurable cost reductions, increased operational efficiencies, and improved collaboration. The introductory post, "Building the Business Case for Social Knowledge Networks," previews the upcoming posts by Inmagic’s director of product marketing John Callan, including a close look at the processes and areas that cost-effectively improve the bottom line.The series is titled How to Cost Justify Your Social Knowledge Network Needs. The article lineup will present the following: Part 1—Increase productivity by socializing more: How this counter-intuitive thinking can make workers more effective Part 2—Socialize for savings: Examining the ROI of implementing social knowledge networks Part 3—When good organizations use bad content: The importance of weeding out poor-quality content to reduce operational costs Part 4—The community will set you free: How tapping community wisdom speeds knowledge discovery Part 5—Losing the man, not the manpower: Using SKNs (social knowledge networks) to keep knowledge retention and productivity levels high when weathering work force shortages Part 6—Productivity is power: A deeper ROI analysis, based on productivity gains Part 7—Dude, where’s my data? SKNs can consolidate and organize it all in one place Part 8—Knowledge, a more perfect union: Centralizing knowledge is one for all, and all for one Part 9—The SKN evangelist’s checklist: The most important points to make when advocating SKNs Source: Inmagic, Inc.
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