Montague Institute Review March 2009

March 2009

ARTICLES

SharePoint as a competitive intelligence tool (full text)

Pros and cons of SharePoint as a competitive intelligence tool from the perspective of a CI software vendor.

Comments on "SharePoint as a CI tool" (members only)

Jean discusses the differences between competitive and business intelligence, comments on the role of general purpose tools like SharePoint in the knowledge management marketplace, and offers her own perspective on cited gaps in SharePoint's capabilities as a CI tool.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

This month's entries include articles about how to evaluate current and future software, the Federal Knowledge Management Initiative, and new ways to quantify the value of human capital.

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS

Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint How-to (March 24 - 25, 2009, Washington, DC)

One and a half-day face-to-face tutorial on the nuts-and-bolts of how to set up MOSS 2007 for navigation and search.

Sorting out semantic standards (April 23, 2009 via teleconference)

Learn about the most common semantic standards in commercial and government use and discuss how and why to deploy them.

How to use SharePoint for knowledge sharing (May 5, 2009 via teleconference)

Learn how to customize and use SharePoint for knowledge sharing, discovery, and innovation.

SharePoint + Ontologies: Picking the low-hanging fruit (May 13, 2009 via teleconference)

How an ontology created with a user-friendly relational database was interfaced with a SharePoint site for collaborative publishing.

Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint How-to (June 9 - 11, 2009 via teleconference)

Three-part teleconference series on the nuts-and-bolts of how to set up MOSS 2007 for navigation and search.

REGULAR FEATURES

Best of the Lists (collected wisdom of the world's information experts)

Faceted taxonomy examples

How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)

17 slides that contain an overview of our content and tips on how to use it.