In reply to Harold.

Communities and EcospheresThanks for taking the time to make a comment here Bill. I'm not sure what a "hyde park" community is, but I assume it's one where people can get on their soapboxes and listeners can freely come and go. My own recent experience with an internal CoP for healthcare professionals shows that blogs and wikis can work very well, even with groups that are not comfortable with Internet technologies. Not only that, all of our technologies were open source, reducing the overall cost of the project significantly.
As for you probably not coming back to this post, that's a real problem with blogs, as I noted on a previous post. Nothing is perfect yet, butI think that we're all on the same journey, just taking different paths.