Wiki
Wiki
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Google Sites
Submitted by matt on Tue, 2008-03-04 12:33.Google Docs has been an free, albeit awkward, way for teams to collaborate via shared documents. Now Google ups the ante by introducing Google Sites. Google Sites is basically an enterprise wiki that supposedly integrates with the company's shared documents and email capabilities. The NG team will be reporting on how well this works for our projects in the future. But for now I'll leave you with this comment from CIO Insight on Google's potentially disruptive impact on traditional organizational dynamics:
"The Death of E-mail"
Submitted by matt on Mon, 2007-12-10 21:31.This article in Slate e-zine By Chad Lorenz describes the growing generational divide between users hanging on to email and ones migrating towards an IM/social networks mix. Writes the author:
". . . e-mail is looking obsolete. According to a 2005 Pew study, almost half of Web-using teenagers prefer to chat with friends via instant messaging rather than e-mail. Last year, comScore reported that teen e-mail use was down 8 percent, compared with a 6 percent increase in e-mailing for users of all ages. As mobile phones and sites like Twitter and Facebook have become more popular, those old Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts increasingly lie dormant."
