Strengths: 1) maybe have the CFO, use a collaboration tool with colleagues to come up with some guidelines or standard operating procedures to effectively use collaboration tools to types of collaboration and speed of collaboration...being proactive vs reactive; 2) Time Zones - real plus as one's day finishes in North America, another starts somewhere else in the world, thus 24 hrs development time on challenging issues (by the time we return to work in NA a solution or multiple solutions may be provided, but also new challenges as well);

Weaknesses: 1) Do we already collaborate in the workplace right now on a F2F means, will technology help us to do something that is not already part of our culture?; 2) What is the incentive for one's participation? An employee might say "I am already too busy, why should I join one more thing that may help with my performance on the job, but not proven yet to do this?"; 3) Without context, without timings and when contributions need to be made (a sense of urgency), the potential structure ...are we providing an environment for successful types of collaboration or speed of collaboration;

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This is an interesting question...as mentioned earlier people post and want or don't want to be anonymous for different reasons.
Listing the author:
Ego..."look at me, look at what I wrote...recognize me...give me a banana."
Creating discussion and communication -- having a discussion with a known person or group, therefore making it more real
Remaining anonymous:
Confidentiality -- being able to post items that may be useful to bring up, but are sensitive (without being damaging to anyone, of course)
Personality -- I think that introverts may not necessarily feel that they need this sort of recognition (such as myself)
When there are multiple editors/writers -- someone will get in there and re-write (and if someone thinks it's there post that may not go down so well)
Is it better to

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Wiki ideas

- Moderated - slower but editorial can avoid some legal issues
- Disclaimers - shows content is potentially incorrect
- Communityy Based
-- User Profiles including user rattings (gives confidence in users similar to ebay)

- Article ratings
- Needs cultural acceptance - must be approved top down

- Potential topics
-- FAQs
-- Sales War Stories (wins/losses)

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