The uses of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies are becoming powerful tools for business collaboration and as a way for organizations to leverage tacit knowledge. They help capture, consolidate, and centralize knowledge throughout a firm. They make it extremely easy for employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners to share knowledge and information.

Write a 3-4 page research paper that describes:

1. The difference between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge;

2. How are organizations using blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies, to improve the way knowledge is identified, categorized, shared;

3. And what are the benefits of these new technologies.