Essentials of Knowledge Management

5.15. Authoring Tools

Creating information is integral to virtually every knowledge worker's duty in a knowledge organization. However, the less time spent authoring, the more time knowledge workers and managers have to do other work. Authoring tool technology has progressed rapidly since the introduction of the first word processing programs. Today multimedia editors are used almost as often as text editors are for creating content. Graphics programs are available for creating print documents and for projecting to an audience, image editors for rendering web-friendly photographs and animations. Similarly, sound editors for creating sound effects or editing speech and video editing systems for preparing video for presentation over the web or the corporate intranet are readily available, affordable, and applicable to the information authoring process.