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Wikis and social software have revolutionized the ways we create and distribute knowledge. The Semantic Web has already begun to transform the ways we maintain, discover and share knowledge across platforms. The KiWi - "Knowledge in a Wiki" - project proposes a new approach to knowledge management that combines the wiki philosophy with the intelligence and methods of the Semantic Web.

Qitera is a next generation web service that empowers you to organize, share and search all your digital assets in a more productive and sustainable way. It does not only allow you to visualize what you already know, but also empowers you to discover new connections between people, organizations, places and objects.

Topicmarks is a web tool that will help you summarize English text. It will also store the summaries in its storage space under your account forever - for free, unless you decide to discard items. However, the developer does have a plan to charge "heavy users" in the future. With the help of Topicmarks' "summarizing engine", you can get the idea of a long article in a snap - without the trouble of going through the original text. There are several methods you can use to submit texts that you want the Topicmarks engine to summarize. The first one is by uploading the text file from your computer. Topicmarks can handle text from several different kinds of file format. These include Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), OpenOffice ODF text (.odt), Hypertext Markup Language (.htm, .html), and of course Plain text (.txt).

TemaTres is an open source vocabulary server, web application to manage and exploit vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and formal representations of knowledge.TemaTres require PHP, MySql and HTTP Web server."

Web2.0 changes everything for KM

The social web and its influence on how we learn.

Here is an interesting article on analysis of tweets in the context of a Puerto Rican national protest.

This blog is dedicated to learning for change. And it is focused on development cooperation, with special emphasis on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and related fields. But postings on this blog may provide food for thought coming from other avenues - the world is a great web of joint insights and serendipity!

Different, and not completely intuitive, but by all means interesting, or at the very least intriguing.

LOOKING GOOD! includes "schools of thought on KM"