Offmessage

Having just spent the day attempting to persuade my current customer that a wiki would be the ideal solution to the problems that we and they are currently facing it was serendipitous to see this article (Blogs and Wikis: Technologies for the Enterprise) rise to the top on del.icio.us. Unfortunately it’s too simplistic, too blog focussed and really misses the point in a lot of ways. Comparing a wiki to a CMS is incorrect - a wiki is a collaborative workspace, not a content management system. They’re about knowledge, not content management. If you want to compare a wiki to a current commercial product then Windows Sharepoint Services is a better comparison. And calling a product bulletin board (something that’s been around since the days of Minitel) a ‘blog’ is a bit of a mistake as well. Ah well. At least the article doesn’t talk about “blogs for marketing” like almost everything else I’m reading at the moment. May I remind you of MSNfound lest you temporarily forget your sanity and think that’s a good idea…