Group Editing In Enterprise 2.0

Group Editing is one of the different tools that Enterprise 2.0 uses. It helps make Enterprise 2.0 so valuable to businesses. It also serves as the center of the Enterprise 2.0 bull's-eye. Group editing is the ability of a diverse set of people to collaborate on a single, centrally stored work product. The name basically explains itself. It will eventually feel like today's individual knowledge work .
The reason behind group editing being in the center is because of the closely tied collaborators. Most of the group editing environments are closed. This means that nobody outside their group has access to the information produced and therefore cannot add or edit the information. Of course, there are some valid reasons to why their environments are kept closed. The main reasons would be security and confidentiality which both are completely understandable because some of the information produced a lot of businesses would like to keep to themselves.
This leads to a couple of the disadvantages. First, the information produced cannot be searched for, tagged or linked so it would not be useful to anybody outside of the group. Secondly, is that it is impossible for outsiders to contribute any useful information. According to the Groundswell, some of a company's best information comes from the outside. Although group editing is so much useful to an organization, it also block the chance of receiving valuable contributions from the outer rings of the bull's-eye.