When vetted content, such as a document or presentation, is enhanced and informed by comments from community experts, the knowledge repository becomes a dynamic and ever-improving organization asset – like a healthy ecosystem. Good content rises to the top and bad content sinks to the bottom. This allows the user to more easily find high-quality content and avoid the garbage. It can also facilitate the implementation of a focused and therefore efficient clean-up effort. (Bad ratings are just like tagging content as garbage.) Additionally, the E2.0 technology enables participants to impart their institutional knowledge, which is a core goal to building and maintaining a high-quality repository in the first place.

If only the gulf had an equally effective method of filtering and clean up.

Phil Green
CTO, Inmagic
http://blog.inmagic.com