Am on the lookout for a wiki style blog, since somehow i feel blogger is limited. Wiki style blogs like confluence etc have changed the way in which corporates share documents/knowledge. Its like knowledge management used to be an additional activity of a company, now knowledge management is a by product of what you do.
Isnt that fun ? Lets say you write design document in word. Here you will have to worry about sharing, versioning, tracking comments and finally releasing it and maintaining it, its a bigger challenge if there are 2-3 contributors. Also if others want to see, you will have to mail it to them or share it in a file server (where its usually an obscure file path), and people need to be told where the document is and there are times you might re-write something thats already there. Wheras in a wiki style, you actually work with the presumption that document is always shared and formatting is not propretiory but globally agreed upon wiki style. Here versioning, sharing, writing and searching is more intutive and well defined, and its easy to implement corporate style conventions. Also its easy for others to peek into what other projects are doing and see if they can contribute. It increase communication across teams.
I guess it can be implemented in all companies, and its the new wave of collaboration. I guess its been 8 months since i used word :) and i love wiki style documentation.
Check out confluence at http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ , its commerical though.
and also mediawiki, that powers wikipedia, it can be used to power any corporate intranet wiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki and its free.
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