Knowledge is Power

December 9, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Knowledge is Power

Columbia University offers a Master of Science degree program in Information and Knowledge Strategy, designed to prepare knowledge practitioners to plan and lead knowledge and information services, improve collaboration and networks, and create innovative knowledge products. KMWorld brought this news to us, and it was of particular interest because of its potential contribution to knowledge management in general.

Knowledge management impacts our daily lives in ways we might never fathom. It is important to remember that well-built taxonomies are the core of successful knowledge management. Without the purpose-built taxonomy, the language of the knowledge contributor (for instance, an author, scientist, or knowledge worker) and the language of the knowledge user (for instance, a customer) will typically fail to be bridged. “If you can’t find it, it might as well not be there.”

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.