there are no "real" studies, they say about academic usage of we-blog. the three cases presented at educa came from online universities. if there is a benefit for a company can be doubted, as the lady from ibm told. there are other tools around. employees of the blue company are in favor of instant messenger. since management didn't like that at the beginning, they accept this kind of communication exchange now and also offer wikis and weblogs; but people don't feel so comfortably with it to use it in a company setting yet. it's too personal, the panel concludes, you can't use the waterfall method on it.

maybe some inside and arguments at terry anderson's and stephen's page.

coates and butterfield on social software, 2002

what they said was more or less: it could lead to reflection, if you tell them how to reflect. possibility to recall an experience, adding feelings to it, re-evaluating the experience; used for dialogs - "if you have a spell checker" and rss.

they don't think it will lead to collaborations as that's were wikis are good for. if you use the wbl forget groups, think about individuals - they are pretty sure about that.

warburton quoted a book "community and inquiries", but i don't know which one he meant. his suggestion was to look at studies of the self, as erving goffman's "reflection of the self" or others ...

no sé, other topics are more fun than this endless discussion about w.