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Building Your First Knowledge Management System
We have been working with organizations over the last decade to build knowledge management systems. Over the past few months, we have visited with many organizations that would like to build their first knowledge management system. The purpose of this article is to summarize the advice that we have given to IT and line managers at these organizations that are new to knowledge management.

Integrating RSS News Feeds Into Your SharePoint Portal Server
Go to most news delivery websites these days and you’ll see a small button, usually in a top corner, labeled “RSS” or “XML”. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a generic XML-based format for delivering and aggregating web content. RSS files provide summary data (e.g. headline and article summaries) that can be easily accessed and transformed by other websites. This article will provide an introduction to the RSS format and illustrate how you can use the SharePoint Portal Server XML web part to easily integrate real-time news feeds into your corporate portal.

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Five Things You Need to Know about Microsoft Smart Documents
Smart documents are a new feature of the Office System version of Microsoft Word and Excel. Smart document technology provides the architecture to build custom context-sensitive Word and Excel templates. This article answers five key questions about smart documents.

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About Knowledge Management Associates

Knowledge Management Associates applies its deep expertise in Microsoft technologies and tools to building custom, innovative business applications for clients in the areas of knowledge management, business intelligence, data and presentation solutions and emerging technologies. During the past five years, we've helped companies achieve significant improvements in business performance:

    • faster response time to customers
    • enhanced productivity (by minimizing ‘reinventing the wheel’)
    • improved sales and operational forecasting through better analysis tools
    • heightened employee morale through easy-to-use systems

Founded in 1995, KMA has a breadth and depth of experience not typically found in small IT companies. We are our clients’ trusted advisors and they value the highly responsive partnership relationship we bring to our engagements. Think of KMA as an extension of your IT organization, fluent in the latest development technologies and here for the long haul. We'll help you build, refine, update and maintain systems that leverage today’s advanced technologies to address today’s competitive challenges.

You can read more about us on the web at: www.kmainc.com.

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