The short definition: Knowledge Management is continually discovering what an organization knows—codifying tacit knowledge, Data Mining, and Business Intelligence; continually increasing what the organization knows—organizational learning and communities of practice, and continually organizing and disseminating explicit knowledge for use throughout the organization. This page presents some valuable resources that are available through the Internet about Knowledge Management. The objective is that after reviewing these pages, you will be able to draw your own conclusion and answer the question “What is Knowledge Management?”

Let’s start with a good overview to include a short history and applicability of Knowledge Management.
What is knowledge management?

Here is a collection of the descriptions of Knowledge Management from several of the leaders in the discipline.
The Knowledge Management Forum

Next are some perspectives on Knowledge Management with a collection of the leading topics in the field.
What is Knowledge Management (KM)?

This site presents an idealist view of Knowledge Management with a paragraphs for goals and lessons learned.
What is Knowledge Management? (Management of Change, Uncertainty, and Complexity)

View this wiki for more of an encyclopedia take on the topic of Knowledge Management.
Knowledge management

Here is a slightly more in depth presentation on Knowledge Management with an interesting application for KM.
What is knowledge management?

This is a short, but important articulation of Knowledge Management from one of the leading industry magazines.
What is knowledge management (KM)?

This is one of the best intellectual descriptions for Knowledge Management with several definitions for the term.
What is knowledge management?

You will need to register for this site, but this a great portal for information from vendors and IT leaders.
Knowledge Management Knowledge Base

Here is a newsletter for the business manager who needs to know about Knowledge Management.
What is Knowledge and can it be Managed?

To be thorough in the discussion of Knowledge Management, here is a very interesting and more critical take on the term and the field.
The nonsense of ‘knowledge management’