Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 Today - Forbes.com
The main one they get out of it so far has been the ability to find not so much other pieces of information but other brains all the way across the community. When I started my research on Intellipedia, the U.S. intelligence community's equivalent of Wikipedia, I thought that the benefits would be like what we see with Wikipedia itself. When we're looking for information, the most readily accessible good resource about topic X is there in Wikipedia, and it's where we go to start our research.
What I learned instead was that, although there are good articles in Intellipedia, more fundamentally, because everyone's contributions to Intellipedia are attributed rather than anonymous, if you've done something smart, I can find not only what you've done, but I can find you. The point is, I would never have found you within the intelligence community without the new tools.
