Writable Intranet – Is this the Name for Intranet 2.0?

Indus Khaitan has provided a phase, Writable Intranet, for Intranet 2.0 a while back which may catch on. He offers a manifesto for sharing knowledge within the enterprise and frames sit as a movement not unlike the Cluetrain Mainifesto for marketing.

“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). 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.”

Many others have written about this including as number of posts on this blog. But I like the way he positions this transformation in how the enterprise might work. Andrew McAfee also offers some good positioning in Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration. But Indus may have won the contest for terminology. Perhaps he should lead with "people of the enterprise." It remains to be seen. enterprise 2.0 enterprise tagging