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Figure 2 – Expecting value of knowledge by classification of intelligences

Sociality of knowledge
There is implicit knowledge (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit knowledge (as with theoretical
understanding of a subject). If a person has sufficient knowledge, he is thinking, making a judgement, and
has an action for a subject. In order to collect sufficient information and knowledge, he searches for the
related documents, discusses with colleagues, hears the opinions and shares the experiences of experts so
that he can have a commonly accepted opinion on a topic. In a knowledge society, knowledge is recognized
as the fundamentals of politics, economics, and culture. Individuals, communities, and organizations produce
knowledge-intensive results. Peter Drucker viewed knowledge as a key economic resource in his 1969 book
"The Age of Discontinuity" [13]. Knowledge is a commodity of knowledge workers to be traded for economic
prosperity.

Similar to the recent social networking services, the heart of online knowledge sharing communities are the
members who interact through technology and experience. The members discuss their community while
constantly providing feedback that is used to shape and extend their knowledge. The social network provides
best practices to ensure the synergy effects of knowledge in an area of a particular interest of each
community. An interaction among people influences the development of knowledge. The collection and
accumulation of knowledge drives to solve difficult problems that humans confront. For scientific matters,
individual scientists are gathering ideas and opinions from communities based on some hypothesis and
experimental results. The road to knowledge needs social networking environments via people,
conversations, connections, and relationships. Therefore, all knowledge is socially mediated and access to it
is achieved by connecting people. The social networking is to build a collection of human communities.

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