At the New Communications Forum last week, pretty much everybody agreed that blogs were no fad, but wikis evoked a less enthusiastic response.

InternetWeek and InformationWeek have a good in-depth article on enterprise wikis.

Amazon is piloting ProductWikis, a single wiki page for each product with wikiwyg-like editing and revision history.

Indeed.com has launched a new feature that enables you to chart the percentage of all jobs that mention a particular word

Here’s a simple lesson in public relations, thanks to BusinessWeek. It’s a great tale to show to clients, to show that even working with a reporter on an article does not ensure that your client is going to get press.

I’m just an amateur, but it seems to me that Mike Langberg is afraid of loosing his job. Can’t blame him, The Mercury News just went through a round of layoffs and print media economics are in shambles.

Collaboration. I hate this word, it’s overused, especially in the PR industry. I should know, I work for a PR agency and my job – technically speaking — is to “collaborate” every day on all sorts of things with all sorts of people.

Up until now, wikis have served as collaborative read-write web sites that either individuals or businesses can contribute to.

Perhaps you’ve heard about blogs – the hottest communication story of last year. Commentators from Newsweek to the Wall Street Journal, from CNN to PBS have devoted time to the phenomenon. Blogs are just one of the new technologies that are changing the way politicians communicate with voters and businesses communicate with customers.

Perhaps the most fascinating conversation I’ve had in recent weeks was with Kevin Werbach, Janice Fraser (CEO, Adaptive Path, recently authored A Whole New Internet) and Philip Evans (SVP at Boston Consulting Group, author of Blown to Bits).

If you’re an IABC member, the May edition of CW Bulletin is a must-read for getting some excellent insight into all the primary new communication technologies …

The Financial Times has an excellent report on why wikis are an effective collaborative tool for the workplace, quoting examples from three prominent companies …

Swaroop wants to Wikify Yahoo! Notepad. Did you even know we had a Yahoo! Notepad? I bet many of you did not.

Infoworld has written an article on a comprehensive package on the use of blogs/wikis in internal communications as well as for corporate communications/PR.

The collaboration market just became more competitive. Microsoft has acquired Groove for undisclosed terms.

The Gilbane Report provides an in-depth look on how to use blogs and wikis in the corporate world.

BBC is not only trying blogs and podcasting as tools in their core business – publishing – they’re also way ahead of most companies when it comes to internal uses of social media.

Not the usual TW fayre, but i have an enormous respect for the BBC – One of the oldest and most repected communications firms in the world.

Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece …

One tool that PR professionals rely on daily is the trusty media directory. The leading company in this space …