Blogging at UVM

Stan Gibson, writing in Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise, Eweek, November 20, 20006, observes that wikis (and blogs) will get a main streamboost in 2007 :

Wiki usage in enterprises could further proliferate when Microsoft ships a wiki feature in Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next year and IBM includes a wiki technology in a social computing product code-named Ventura, due in the first half of 2007.

As a case study, he describes the growth of wikis and blogs at Motorola. Motorola, which employs 68,000, has begun an open text collaboration initiative. In 18 months, the corporation has seen 2,600 blogs and 3,200 wikis created. An inhouse instant messenging platform processes 1.2 million messages a day. The system includes 12TB of searchable data, and is supported by 250 "knowledge champions."

A similar collaboration initiative exists at Novell and other less well-known firms.