I'll post more this week about last week's CIC CIO TechForum, but I've been thinking about a comment someone made during the question and answer session of my panel talk. Someone asked how Iowa could justify having a wiki and another proprietary service which claims to do the same thing. One of the folks in the audience said that it comes down to the "atomic unit of content" for these systems. The "atomic unit" of a wiki is the page, whereas for most of the other systems it's the document. His contention is that wikis work better because they allow people to collaborate on single pages rather than whole documents.
Something to think about. I wish I had written down his name.
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