Jon Husband studies the impacts of
IT and the Web on the design and dynamics of knowledge work and is a co-author
of Making
Knowledge Work--The Arrival of Web 2.0 (you can read his bio here).
On March 9, Jon posted "For All Those Who Have Said Blogging Was Just A Fad... "
on the FASTForward
Blog. Here's an excerpt of his comments on the effect of blogs and wikis
inside organizations:
The spread
of the use of wikis and blogs into the world of enterprises began being
considered not long after the rise of blogging as a sociological phenomenon,
and made clear the different dynamics and structural impediments that would be encountered
as the tools and services spread into the organizational environment. Humans
spend a lot of their time communicating with each other ... always have done,
and always will do so. And wikis and blogs make it easier to do so in an
interlinked environment in which humans use integrated information systems,
keyboards and computer screens and software to enable their communications.
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