The Writable Intranet: a nice term
Indus Khaitan over at the Parisista blog just launched a very nice term for all that new stuff that is (or better should be) happening on Intranets these days: the Writable Intranet.
To quote Indus:
“Writable Intranet” is the corporate intranet of the future where employees collaborate using Wikis, Blogs and applications interoperate using RSS. The Writable Intranet does not have series of static pages where information is disseminated “top down”. It is the place where employees collaborate, exchange thoughts, create plans, capture meeting notes, track projects, create documents (not word documents but documents which are web pages and have version control).
and..
The Writable Intranet marks the end of e-mail as the collaboration platform. The Writable Intranet means that enterprise knowledge is “free” and searchable by anybody. The “freedom” implies that knowledge is neither in e-mails and nor in documents but in easily accessible and searchable repositories. The Writable Intranet means information which is a constant source of data to other people who make modifications at will.
I personally think “The Writable Intranet” is a better term than Enterprise 2.0, at least if you want to sell it to management.
Via: James Robertson
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posted Sep 18, 03:00 PM on Sep 18, 2006 |
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“I personally think “The Writable Intranet” is a better term than Enterprise 2.0, at least if you want to sell it to management.”
Sorry, but being a linguist I have to ask why you think so. Professional curiosity, so to speak. ;-)
— Cornelius Puschmann Sep 18, 09:24 PM #
Hi Cornelius,
In terms of “linguistics” (is that English?) I am sure the new term is strange to say the least. But, it is this whole notion of “read versus write” that is so nicely used in “The Writable Intranet”. I think people understand that easier than Enterprise 2.0, although the latter covers a wider range of topics than the former.
Marcel
— Marcel Sep 18, 09:29 PM #
The idea is to get this glued on the faces of corporate management.
They don’t understand “give me a wiki” or “give me a blog” platform —rather—“Hey can you give me a writable intranet?”. Hopefully, the IT & corporate management listens that way and we can collaborate better!
— Indus Khaitan Sep 30, 10:17 AM #