If the Birds Do It and the Bees Do It and the, of course, Students Do It, Then Why Shouldn't We Do It?

Good post today from one of our guest webloggers, Zoli, about a new software as a service for students called CourseCafe. What's it all about? It's an on-demand software that allows students to keep a history of their online research. Over time the knowledge base that's created can be shared by other students taking the same course, or a similar course.

Students today spend a lot of time researching online and CourseCafe helps to create a knowledge base of the most useful, productive sites that the students find. And that's just a start. The tool is actually pretty powerful. Zoli describes it in depth, as well as the other tools in the trio.

Now, why aren't more businesses interested in doing similar things; that is, allowing their staffs to save, share and collaborate on and with the knowledge assets that they generate everyday? In fact, why aren't more companies interested in managing these knowledge assets as the nuggets of gold that they are? Amazing that we let so much of this slip away. Collaboration seems like such an odd idea to so many people in business, or anywhere really.

Once again the students have leapfrogged us. With their cool I-pods chock full of great tunes they bound by the business world as we look through the closet for those lost 8-tracks.