Or a .odf. Or something similar. It doesn’t matter, make your choice. But remember, give me a document file.

Well, what follows is something I’ve never thought I could have ever written. But you never know and life could be so surprising..

2011. I really don’t think you need me to say that every IT (actually not only the IT ones, but let’s keep it simple..) enterprise has understood that information is value for the whole company. And value for the company means, in some way or other, money. You don’t have to be Facebook to understand it. But most of all information sharing among the whole company’s levels, both horizontally and vertically, is what drives value. Sharing means that the information is not mine, is not yours, rather it’s ours. Sharig means collaborate, what you do not know may be what I know or better what you know and what I know may help one another to solve its problem. Just hot water until now.

Now the great question: how do you collect and share information inside a company? First of all you need culture. Then you have to help it with tools. Let’s suppose you already have the culture..you lucky! So you need a tool. Which tool comes first into your mind to easily and freely collect and share information and collaborate on it? Microsoft Word, it’s so simple!! .doc filses have been created just for easy sharing and collaboration, wasn’t them? Having n people collaborating all togehter at the same time on a single doc is so damn simple. You can tag documents, you can organize them inside directories, you can interlink them and most of all you can easily track who wrote what, why and when. And believe it or not, it’s just two-clicks far from you. Word documents are so easy to be indexed and to search on thanks to Windows search or some very powerful tools like Google’s Search Appliace or whatever. You buy it, set it up, configure it and it works! And if Microsoft Office licences are too expensive for you, well install OpenOffice instead. It’s simple, again.

Wiki, who really needs it when you may have loads of .doc (or .odf) files to maintain?

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