On the Atlassian Blog I’ve explored this question and the relationship between social software and knowledge management based on some articles Euan Semple pointed out. In Whence goeth KM? Dave Snowden concludes that knowledge management is on its way out because it has changed so much since it first appeared in the early 1990s. Today, social tools like wiki focus completely on letting people work together online the same way they’d work in person. The fundamental difference between knowledge management and social software is that the latter approaches knowledge as the product of that organic, non-linear human connection and collaboration…