Knowledge Management Processes: An Implementation on Social Networks

Knowledge Management Processes: An Implementation on Social Networks

Introduction

The management of the information and knowledge is one of the major responsibilities of the organizations. Knowledge Management serve as a system that the organizations use in order to control and utilize the already available information related to its activities and sources. It comprises of a range of strategies that have an objective to establish, symbolize and then disseminate the organizational experiences and insights.

Companies for the efficient working have to keep a record of all the internal and external information. Organizations create a number of software and database management systems so as to integrate data from numerous sources. Social networks serve as a mean of creating the knowledge.

Implementation of Knowledge Management Process

The implementation of a knowledge management process involves a series of steps

Step 1: A comprehensible survey enables to understand the knowledge coordination of an organization and gives a sense that whether an organization is in a position to adopt the knowledge management system. The figure below identifies three distinct stages in Knowledge Management each having its unique characteristics

Step 2: This is a step of Knowledge Management Education specifying how to improve the understanding of Knowledge Management.

Step 3: At this step, the Knowledge Management Planning and Analysis is carried out.

Step 4: The efficient implementation of KM requires adoption of some new roles and responsibilities. Many organisations have the Knowledge Manager or Knowledge Officer to better implement the KM processes.

Step 5: This stage marks the evaluation of the tools and methods for the implementation of Knowledge

Step 6: At this stage, the evaluation of Knowledge Competencies and its standard are taken into consideration.

Step 7: This step leads to the creation of Knowledge networks, a term use for social networks. Their primary aim is to make the knowledge creation and disseminating aspect faster.

Facebook_ A Social Network

Facebook as a social platform is on the fastest track of innovation and knowledge management processes. Individuals and Organizations keep on using Facebook with an aim to spread their word out of the context and thus make the communication process more effective.

Mark Zuckerberg created faced book in the year 2004 with the collaboration of two other Harvard University students. Initially, the network served only the students of Harvard University, but later the member ship become available to others as well.

Since September 11, 2006, the website was available only in one language and a person living in any part of the globe can use an email address and access the facilities of Facebook.

On May 24 2007, the idea of creation of Facebook Platform allowed anyone to use the framework in connection to the Facebook features. Statistics have shown that a person use to spend 20 minutes on average daily on the Facebook site.

The year 2006 marks the explosive acceleration of Facebook making it the sixth most trafficked site in U.S. The figure below shows the growth of the Facebook between ...