Google Sites

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:

"With the introduction of Google Sites, Google bolsters its position as a key insurgent in a guerrilla war that eventually could wrest control from CIOs the decisions on what key IT applications companies will use. That's because individuals or groups of employees don't need to ask the IT organization permission to use these tools . . . Any of these services could be contracted from without the IT organization, by individual employees or business unit heads."