[thelist] Blog based KM tool

[Pete Prodoehl]

I'd recommend you take a look at Drupal. It sounds like it might do just
what you want. It supports multiple users with different levels of
access, (each user would have their own blog) and you could create the
taxonomy to organize everything. It's also searchable.

     http://drupal.org/

It's a PHP/MySQL (or PostgreSQL) application. even if you don't use it,
you might get some good ideas from it.

Pete


Drew Shiel wrote:
>
> Hi folks;
>
> I'm about to start a new project, which is for work, but done on my own
> time. It's to be a weblog-based knowledge management tool.
>
> The company I work for is expanding gradually - nor dreadfully fast, but
> steadily. Due to the fact that all our "stuff" is written inhouse, it takes
> quite some time to bring new developers up to speed. It took me about nine
> months to get a grip on most things here, and there are still parts of the
> system that I haven't touched.
>
> To alleviate this problem, I propose to build a knowledge base.
> Essentially, every developer - and probably the marketing and management
> folks too - will have a weblog. Into that will go comments on what they're
> doing, notes about how they're doing it, small things like the tips here on
> thelist, ideas for improvements to existing tools and systems and so on.
>
> That will then be searchable, so if I want to know about the part of the
> system that deals with credit card processing, I can type "processing" and
> get back what various people said about it at different times.
>
> It'll be written in Cold Fusion and use a SQL Server database - more
> because that's what we have in house and what I want to learn more about
> than because of any inherent suitability.
>
> So... I'd like some suggestions as to how to go about this. Should I build
> some kind of index from the blogs, get users to tag them with keywords, do
> a plain grep-for-that-text, or what? Are there any extra features I could
> or should build in? Would comments be useful on this? Should I allow for
> "personal" as well as work entries?
>
> This'll probably be a long-term project, since it's coming out of my own
> time.
>