User-Generated content has helped evolve dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) to web-based bulletin boards more commonly known as Forums. What’s cirtical to understand are global best practices in creating and maintaining a forum – particularly for project management professionals.

The insights of the many often provides a broader influence footprint vs. the knowledge of one. That notion powers the creation of Wikis - highly interconnected websites into a single location, creating a powerful platform for internal collaboration, data collection and analysis, and multiple entries by multiple people.

Within the project management communities, Forums and Wikis can help reduce redundant processess, accelerate learning curves, organize and prioritize knowledge management as a process (vs. a system), and empower the project team’s ability to get things done – faster and with fewer resources.