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Collaboration via Wiki
Posted by Rene Jansen
The nice thing about posting to this blog, is that interesting people read it and send me emails, specially since google introduced its blog search software. Today I recieved an email from Isaac Garcia. You might know Isaac from the centraldesktop blog. I quote his profile information here: "Isaac co-founded Upgradebase in 1997, a leading product data provider to the Computer and Consumer Electronics industry; and Vendorbase in 1999, a B2B Marketplace for Computer Resellers. Both companies were acquired by CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET) in 2002. During my 3 year tenure at CNET, I served as a Director of North America Enterprise Sales for CNET Channel."Isaac told me about his new initative, Central Desktop. I visited their site today. It is an interesting collaboration environment based on Wiki. What I like about it is the thougth of a semi-structured, semi-unstructured shared environment, a bit like basecamp, but then completely different :) They use the nice pay off: "reduce team spam". And I think most people in corporate environments, working on major international projects, recognises the spam in their email boxes. And Web2.0 is indeed a perfect way to improve team communication and collaboration, without increasing the number of mails in your inbox.
What I feel, looking at centraldesktop or Basecamp, is the huge need for better collaboration suites than the main providers like Microsoft offer us. So, join the group of people who make the online collaboration world a better place to be, join centraldesktop or bPerform or any other of your favorites, just quit using old fashioned cooperation tools and environments, just wake up and have fun, join web2.0!