Expertise Location - Latest, Greatest Ideas and Approaches

What is the best approach to expertise location? Profiles (is the profile automatically generated or user generated)? People Maps? Blogs/Wikis? CoPs? White pages? What is the expected behavior and process to find expertise? Subject matter experts or subject matter networks? What is the true value of expertise location? How can we measure success?

KM and the "E-L Divide"

(After an interesting comment by MD_Santo this topic suggestion has changed from KM and the Digital Divide to KM and the E-L Divide; see somments for a further explanation. I have included qoutes from the comment of MD-Santo to illustrate this suggestion)

 

Emerging KM Technologies

  • Google Wave
  • SecondLife
  • Twitter
  • video transcription
  • others?