With Wikis, KM’s,blogs, Portals, document management, content management solutions being implemented or rather experimented in the same enterprises, I see a mes around mountains and mountains of content lying around and an absolute disconnect between them. Moreover we tend to forget the pain the authors have to go through who has to enter the same content at multiple places, killing the very own idea of an enterprise content management. the ground realities are quite harsh, the different departments execute a diff techniques to manage their content which makes things even more complicated.

It’s imperative to look at the larger pricture and as you said it would be interesting to have a study/report across these various kind of tools, a good topic for now…Or maybe there is something avilable and probably I am not aware of it, could you let me know if there is anyting somewhere?

I think apart from Enterprises Wiki will be implemented/embraced more by Educational Institutions (Colleges, Universities). This would help the learning community in forming virtual forums and also enabling exchange of ideas,thoughts and even lectures. Since cost of education is increasing exponentially implementing this will not be a problem.

On the darker side……

Already enterprises are sitting on huge content silos which they are struggling to manage. If the emerging technologies like Wiki are implemented without a thought or careful planning it would become a nightmare in managing/maintaining the ever growing content.

Thanks
Karthick