Blogging and wiki use on intranets

TheDonF — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:39:05 -0800

Do you work for a medium or large company? Does your company have an intranet? Does it use blogging tools and wikis? If so.... I'm an intranet developer and am almost certain that introducing small-scale (initially) blogging to give better communication and more immediate feedback from the business to the authors would be a good thing. I'm also fairly convinced that using Wikis would help alleviate much of the "necessity" to store endless Office documents in shared drives. My colleagues aren't quite so sure and are concerned that the openess of the Wiki format, that anyone can edit a document, there's virtually no version control and it could be dangerous because it would lead to non-experts updating content incorrectly which others would use to a potentially damaging effect. With the blogging, they're afaid that standards of written communication would drop. To be fair some of the wiki ones are, I believe, legimate concerns.

I really need some help in gathering evidence, good and bad, of the use of these formats on an intranet. So, was it good for you or was it horrible mistake? How did you implement it or how has your company implemented it for you? Tales of joy and woe, I'll take them all!

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