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Creating a Company Knowledge Base - What to Think About?

08 October 2012

As your company grows beyond its founders and its first generation of employees, ensuring that the intellectual capital, knowledge and expertise that your company is built on is passed on effectively becomes an important challenge. I worked at a company that had a fantastic knowledge base, which was constantly used and regularly updated.

With at least 30 new employees every six months, this vital resource proved incredibly valuable in ensuring that skills were passed on, standards were maintained, and that even the company culture endured from generation to generation. A knowledge base is not just a collection of PDFs in the HR folder – it has to be a system that encourages use, and remains relevant year after year.

If you’re facing the problem of creating a knowledge base for your company, here are a few things to think about as you approach this task.

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Why Drupal is a lot better than Wordpress

25 May 2012

Getting into web business is a risky venture today not so much because of the difficulty involved with building and maintaining websites, but actually because it’s so simple to start that the competition is insanely dense. Thanks to content management systems like WordPress and Drupal, the average Joe or Jane would-be web entrepreneur can now easily design and integrate and manage websites like professionals.

If you’re in web business and are looking for a content management system, you may be wondering which of the big two to go with. Although there are many, many more to choose from, WordPress and Drupal are pretty much the industry standards for the time being, and when lined up side by side, Drupal seems to win out over WordPress in a big way. Here’s why.

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What is a Content Management System?

11 June 2010

Running a successful business is as much about keeping your affairs in order as it is about marketing and getting customers to buy your product. With so much content coming at you from all directions, it's important that you learn how to manage it in order to operate an efficient business. Using a content management system (CMS) could be a great way to go.

Recent innovations have provided businesspeople with the means to manage their content through the use of software programs. The process of content management would be overwhelming without the use of these platforms, and many of the best available today are available for free and operate on an open source.

Businesspeople needing a CMS at their disposal have plenty of options available. Publishing platforms and content management systems vary in structure, performance, licensing and technologies used.

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