Wiki's, Blogs, RSS in the enterprise

There is much to do about services and products related to Web 2.0. Apart from being very fashionable it definitely will have an impact on the world of enterprise content management.

Typical content or collaboration focused technologies of the Web 2.0 wave are blogs, wiki's, RSS feeds and podcasts. These technologies have seen a massive adoption on the public internet.

Many people have a personal blog or are co-blogger to a blog –some of which generate a fair amount of visitors. Others are regular visitors of some specific interest blogs.

Wiki's have been around since the launch of the first ever wiki 'WikiWikiWeb' in 1995 but the concept behind it really got understood by the masses through Wikepedia, the famous web based free online encyclopedia.

Fact is that the wide spread adoption of these technologies on the Internet has created a familiarity among end-users. They like the technologies, which are easy to understand and to use and they wonder why they can not use them as a tool for their daily job. Corporate blogging can be useful in many forms while wiki's can be great collaborative platforms for documentation creation or knowledge capture.

And they're right: the collaboration and content management tools that are typically available within organizations are sometimes complex to set up. There is a risk that if the organization itself does not make these new collaboration and content management tools available to their staff in a controlled way, the users are going to bypass corporate restrictions and flee to online service providers on the Internet. It would not be the first time that management discovers its staff has build a complete parallel content or collaboration universe somewhere on the (semi) public Internet.

The best way to handle this is to look into these technologies and evaluate which are the most suitable to bring inside the company's firewall. Today, there are enterprise ready tools available that allow to set up corporate blogs, wiki's and RSS feeds. Enterprise ready means scalable, secure and with integration capabilities (like LDAP/AD, enterprise search, etc. ).

Another interesting evolution is that the mainstream ECM vendors are starting – or planning - to incorporate these functionalities in their core ECM products.

If you want to learn more: visit our next seminar on "Next Generation Web Content Management".

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