Blog beats Wiki

So after alot of gnashing of teeth, I have choosen Movable Type Publishing Platform 3.1 over a Wiki for our Ignition Team group sharing tool. Basically wiki’s require you to learn a new tag format and come with varying degree of WISYWIG tools for publishing. Wiki’s are also an order of magnitude harder to use than Blogs by the simple fact that they have more features. I could see using a Wiki to manage a workflow in a highly technical team instead of Outlook/exchange.

In the case of our little VC team, all we needed was a central place where we could post thoughts about companies, upload documents, have threaded comments, and simple search. These requirements do not a wiki make. The sharing tool had to be totally light weight and simple to use. The only thing I that would make this blog easier would be if I could copy it on an e-mail so that many of the internal e-mails on companies could just automatically go into the blog and be searchable. I will work on that this week.

Bottom line. For simple collab, go Blog not Wiki. I installed and ran through the features with Kwiki, TikiWiki, SocialText hosted, PMWiki, Moin Moin, and tWiki. For ease of set-up and rich features go with SocialText hosted if you must have a collab solution.