We've been promoting the use of wikis and blogs at work as means of collaboration and dialogue amongst people. The initially reaction to wikis was very positive and we actually witnessed that people started adopting them fairly quickly. However, there were some concerns voiced and the largest issue was that of restricting the viewers and editors. That itself goes against the nature of wikis (and also blogs). The idea is to allow anyone and everyone to read and contribute, and if we institute measures to restrict access, the whole nature of the system changes. The cool thing about wikis is not the technical stuff, but instead the social aspect.
Now this brings me to the problem with blogging. As much fun as this is, the problem why I stopped blogging the last time (and the time before that, and before that too...) was that I can't just type anything I want here. Granted, obfuscating names goes a long way, but people are clever enough to still figure out what's going on. And some things are just not meant to be written down. A pity, actually, but I guess that's just how things are. There'd either have to be multiple levels of access control or multiple blogs for different subjects, and that's not fun anymore. Oh well, no discussion on endgames and long-term personal strategies on this blog, then. :)
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