Google may be capable of finding most of what we want, but it’s still a search tool not a repository. There’s a difference. One’s a magnifying glass. The other is a vessel.

Links get broken as documents are moved, and the most updated version of a person’s presentation may still reside on a flash drive, not her web site.

That’s why I floated the idea of an IABC wiki, to help members and even non-members find communications-related content. I like to hear what you think, even if you are not connected with IABC.

On a related note:

• Doctors have a wiki, too. It’s a work in progress, as a wiki should be. You can look up ‘autoimmune pancreatis’ but there’s nothing on ‘astigmatism.”
• The U.S. Intelligence community started one in 2006, called Intellipedia. It is a walled garden for ‘authenticated’ users.