Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if any).
In theory, having a single place to gather resources and do many times of sharing and discussion would be great. In practice, I wonder if wikis, on the one hand, or Facebook at another extreme, aren't doing enough of what we want. Thoughts? ari
