Re: Knowledge Base Software Tools

[Daniel Friedman <daniel -dot- friedman42 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You seem to be describing a forum rather than a knowledge base. Knowledge
bases tend to be more for companies to post answers to FAQs or
documentation to customers, so they tend to be more centrally managed.
Whereas forums allow posting by customers as well as internal resources.
Forums can be a good resource for users to find help (speaking from
personal experience as a user, never having worked at a company with a
forum). However, any forum would have a high overhead of moderation to
ensure that people are not posting inappropriate stuff, spam, or stuff that
just trashes your company.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Jelus, Susan C. <
susan -dot- jelus -at- thermofisher -dot- com> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm trying to encourage my company to establish a "knowledge base" that
> could be used as a help system to answer customer (and internal) technical
> questions.  Ideally, anyone could enter a question and a response,
> including tech support, tech writers, engineers, and customers.  We would
> include a check/approval step before it is published.
>
> Do any of you have experience with this type of system?  What tools do you
> use to produce/check/compile it?  Any other random thoughts about this?
> We're NOT in the business of developing software, and so don't produce html
> help or anything like that.  It would be freestanding, probably available
> through the corporate website.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Susan Jelus
> Logan, Utah
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