Chapter 14Information Broadcasting Tools

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

— Samuel Johnson

Information broadcasting applications are used to distribute information to team members and others.

The types of applications that we include in this category are as follows:

Blogs (short for weblogs) are online journals that let you combine text, images, and hyperlinks.

Podcasts (audio) and vodcasts (audio-video) let team members retrieve information on demand, unlike presentations and ...

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