TORONTO, ON – I love the wiki concept. Wikis hold a lot of power and promise. A wiki however cannot substitute for an entire intranet.
My colleague Shel Holtz takes issue, and with good reason, with SocialText CEO Ross Mayfield (makers of the leading wiki software) who has suggested that all intranets could become wikis (see The future of intranets). Mayfield makes his comments on the Blogspotting show of Stephen Baker, a BusinessWeek reporter and blogger (seeRossMayfield interview).
Look lets not confuse a social communications tool with a business ecosystem. I