Blogging Tools and Knowledge Management As knowledge management grows in importance, organizations will needs tools that make it easy to share, discover, and organize the knowledge they seek to manage. The blog (aka weblog) community has developed tools that can be applied to knowledge management. Based on the original web theme of personal publishing, blogs encourage individuals to record their experience (and expertise) and share them with others. The use of syndication/subscriptions allows others to stay informed of an individual's writings. Organizational approaches are also being developed to allow individuals to categorize their writings to address specific audiences.